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Avocado, Coconut and Lime Granita

Avocado, coconut milk and lime juice make this granita deliciously refreshing.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Avocado and coconut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 73 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 6
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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

  1. Put the avocado, lime juice, coconut milk, agave nectar, stevia powder and sugar into a blender. Blend until completely smooth, about 1 minute.

  2. Pour the mixture into a shallow 9-by-13-inch (23-by-33 cm) metal or glass pan and cover it.

  3. Freeze for 1 hour, until the edges begin to firm up.

  4. Scrape the frozen edges into the center and stir with a fork to break up the ice crystals.

  5. Repeat the scraping and stirring every 30 minutes for 3 to 4 hours, until the granita is fully frozen and flaky.

  6. Scoop into chilled glasses and serve right away.

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 + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  2. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,117 recipes

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

  3. Lime + agavetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Lime + coconuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together936 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Coconut + agavetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together162 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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