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Avocado Cilantro Greek Yogurt Dip

A super easy and tasty dip made with avocados, cilantro, Greek yogurt, jalapeno, scallions, and garlic.

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Why it works: Avocado and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 426 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 12
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Halve and pit the avocados, then scoop the flesh into a food processor or blender.

  2. Add the Greek yogurt, cilantro leaves, chopped jalapeno, lemon juice, garlic clove, salt, chili powder and cumin.

  3. Pulse or blend until smooth and creamy, scraping down the sides as needed, about 1 to 2 minutes.

  4. Taste and adjust the salt or lemon juice if needed, then transfer to a serving bowl.

  5. Chill in the refrigerator for 15 minutes before serving to let the flavors meld.

By tastykitchen. 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. Avocado + yogurttop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together426 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Jalapeno + cumintop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together688 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Avocado + jalapenotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together441 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Garlic + cumintop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Jalapeno + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (avocado, yogurt, jalapeno, garlic, cumin):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Mangobetter flavor fit
  3. Cherryabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against avocado, yogurt, jalapeno, garlic, cumin. 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).