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Cheese Enchilada Salad with Creamy Cilantro Dressing

A Mexican-inspired salad topped with cheese enchiladas and cilantro sour cream dressing.

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Cheese Enchilada Salad with Creamy Cilantro Dressing

Why it works: Corn and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,099 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Cheese Enchilada Salad with Creamy Cilantro Dressing

Serves 4
Prep15 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

521Calories
30 gProtein
28 gFat
42 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 14 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Corn Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Romaine Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Saladnot in our table0
Pepitanot in our table0
Enchiladanot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

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. Corn + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Lettuce + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

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

  3. Cheddar cheese + yogurttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Corn + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together270 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, canola oil, corn, cheddar cheese, tomato, cream, yogurt):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, canola oil, corn, cheddar cheese, tomato, cream, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.