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Avocado Cheese Balls

Avocado cheese balls with cottage cheese and lemon juice.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Avocado Cheese Balls

Why it works: Cottage cheese and cream cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 77 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Avocado Cheese Balls

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

458Calories
17 gProtein
37 gFat
23 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cottage cheese + cream cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Avocado + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together464 recipes

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

  3. Dill + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

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

  4. Dill + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together159 recipes

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

  5. Avocado + dilltop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (avocado, dill, cottage cheese, cream cheese, lettuce):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Cherryfits less well
  4. Pineapplefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against avocado, dill, cottage cheese, cream cheese, lettuce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.