Name: Green Tomato Panzanella Salad with Cilantro Lime Dressing
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons FOR THE SALAD:; 6 cups Olive Oil; 3 whole Cubed Bread; ¾ cups Salt And Pepper; 1 whole Green Tomatoes, Medium Diced; ¼ cups Corn Kernels; ¾ cups Avocado, Medium Diced; ¾ cups Onion, Small, Diced; ¾ cups Red Pepper, Medium Diced; ½ cups Green Pepper, Medium Diced; 1 clove Queso Fresco, Crumbled; ½ teaspoons Jalapeno, Small Diced, To Taste; 1 Tablespoon FOR THE CILANTRO LIME DRESSING:; 3 Tablespoons Olive Oil; ¼ cups Garlic, Roughly Chopped; ½ teaspoons Dijon Mustard; ¼ teaspoons Shallot (roughly Chopped)

Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. 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.

Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,539 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Tomato + avocadotop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,385 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Olive + avocadotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,449 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

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

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,653 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 clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, bread, pepper, tomato, corn, avocado, onion):

Garlicfits better
Cuminfits better
Corianderfits better
Clovethe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
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
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Salad	not in our table	0

Green Tomato Panzanella Salad with Cilantro Lime Dressing