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Black Bean Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing

This is one of the most delicious and nutritious salads that I have prepared.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Black Bean Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing

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 ↓

Black Bean Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing

Serves 4
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

528Calories
17 gProtein
27 gFat
65 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Black Bean1/2 cup canned (120g) drained114
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Almond Milk1 cup (240ml) unsweetened30
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot 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. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lime + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,216 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

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

  5. Almond + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, milk, avocado, clove, lime, cumin, lettuce):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Corianderfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

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