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Tex Mex Salad

Fresh salad with avocado, tomatoes, cheese, lime and salsa. Toss it together for a quick side.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Tex Mex Salad

Why it works: Avocado and lime 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 ↓

Tex Mex Salad

Serves 2
Prep5 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

478Calories
13 gProtein
32 gFat
45 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Romaine Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5

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. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lettuce + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together464 recipes

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

  3. Lettuce + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together408 recipes

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

  4. Lettuce + cherry tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Cherry tomato + avocadotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lettuce, avocado, lime, cheddar cheese):

  1. Mangofits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Cherryfits about as well
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

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