Name: Kale, Black Bean and Avocado Burrito Bowl
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 cup brown rice, rinsed (short grain/arborio or long grain/basmati recommended); 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1 bunch curly kale, ribs removed and chopped into small, bite-sized pieces; 1/4 cup lime juice; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 1/2 jalapeño, seeded and finely chopped; 1/2 teaspoon cumin; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1 avocado, pitted and sliced into big chunks; 1/2 cup mild salsa verde (any good green salsa will do); 1/2 cup fresh cilantro leaves (a few stems are ok); 1 lime, juiced; 2 cans black black beans, rinsed and drained (or 4 cups cooked black beans); 1 shallot, finely chopped (or 1/3 cup chopped red onion); 3 cloves garlic, pressed or minced; 1/4 teaspoon chili powder; 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional); cherry tomatoes, sliced into thin rounds; hot sauce (optional)

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 ↓

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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.

Lime + avocadotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,117 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Kale + shallottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together42 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Lime + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,216 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Cumin + beanstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,188 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Kale + avocadotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together54 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, kale, lime, olive, cumin, avocado, beans):

Welsh onionfits better
Sweet potatofits better
Lettucefits better
Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, kale, lime, olive, cumin, avocado, beans. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Black Bean	1/2 cup canned (120g) drained	114
Cherry	1 cup (138g)	87
Red Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Kale, Black Bean and Avocado Burrito Bowl