Name: Tostadas with Homemade Refried Beans, Pico De Gallo and Avocado
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 8 whole FOR THE BEANS:; 1 teaspoon Corn Tortillas; ½ whole Olive Oil, Plus More For Brushing On Tortilla; ½ whole Red Pepper, Small Diced; 1 teaspoon Green Pepper, Small Diced; ½ whole Jalapeno, Small Diced, Or More Depending On How Much Heat You Like; 1 clove Onion, Small, Diced; 1 can Garlic, Minced; ¼ teaspoons 15 Oz Can, Black Beans, Rinse And Drained, Reserve Black Bean Juice; ¾ teaspoons Salt; ½ teaspoons Ground Cumin; ⅛ teaspoons Paprika; 2 whole Pepper; 3 whole Avocados, Peeled, Pitted And Sliced; ½ cups FOR THE PICO DE GALLO:; 1 clove Tomatoes, Cored And Diced; ½ cups Onion, Small, Diced; ½ Garlic, Minced; ¼ teaspoons Cilantro Leaves, Chopped; ⅛ teaspoons Lime, Juiced, Or More Depening On How Juicy Lime Is; ¼ teaspoons Salt; ¼ teaspoons Pepper

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. 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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Beans + corntop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,211 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Jalapeno + garlictop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,700 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, corn, olive, pepper, clove, onion, garlic):

Cuminfits better
Thymefits better
Oreganofits better
Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, corn, olive, pepper, clove, onion, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Corn Tortilla	1 medium flour (45g)	140
Tortilla	1 medium flour (45g)	140
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Black Bean	1/2 cup canned (120g) drained	114
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Bean	not in our table	0

Tostadas with Homemade Refried Beans, Pico De Gallo and Avocado