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Avocado and Cream Cheese Roll

Freshly ripened cream cheese is the best choice for this party dish, created by Ana Elena Martinez, a caterer in Puebla, Mexico. Look for handmade cream cheese in specialty shops; it has a slightly acrid smell, salt white color, soft texture and ripe sour taste.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and avocado work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 76 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream cheese + avocadotop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Avocado + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,653 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Onion + porktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18,199 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Cream cheese + porktop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together398 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, avocado, onion, pork):

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, avocado, onion, pork. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).