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Vegetables with Pepita Dip

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By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Vegetables with Pepita Dip

Why it works: Jicama and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 80 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Vegetables with Pepita Dip

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

284Calories
8 gProtein
5 gFat
58 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 13 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Tortilla Chip1 medium flour (45g)140
Jicama1 cup (120g)46
Plum1 medium (66g)30
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Chives1 tbsp (3g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Pepitanot 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 williamssonoma. 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. Jicama + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Chive + radishtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Radish + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together53 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Radish + jicamatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Chive + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together139 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, chive, radish, carrot, jicama, lime):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, chive, radish, carrot, jicama, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.