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Thomasina Miers' Mexican Aguachile Recipe

An amazing Mexican aguachile served with totopos from Thomasina Miers

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and avocado match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,117 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Thomasina Miers' Mexican Aguachile Recipe

6 people
Prep1 hr 20 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

904Calories
37 gProtein
40 gFat
114 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Shrimp100g cooked99
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Chervilnot in our table0
Coriandernot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By lovefood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lime + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Cucumber + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together299 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Cherry tomato + avocadotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Lime + cucumbertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together649 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Lime + cherry tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (scallop, lime, fish sauce, sugar, cucumber, banana, avocado):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against scallop, lime, fish sauce, sugar, cucumber, banana, avocado. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.