Name: Chicken Burrito Bowl
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 5 whole FOR THE CHICKEN:; 2 Tablespoons Chicken Breasts; 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil; 1 Tablespoon Guajillo Chili Powder; 1 teaspoon Smoked Paprika; 3 whole Hot Mexican Chili Powder; 2 whole FOR THE GUACAMOLE:; 5 dashes Avocados, Peeled, Pitted And Mashed; 1 Tablespoon Plum Tomatoes, Diced; ¼ Tabasco; 2 whole Lemon Juice; 3 Tablespoons Red Onion, Diced; 2 Tablespoons FOR THE AVOCADO CREAM:; 2 Tablespoons Avocados, Peeled And Pitted; 2 teaspoons Olive Oil; 2 teaspoons Mayonnaise; 3 teaspoons Fat Free Greek Yogurt; 1 cup Salt; ¼ whole Pepper; 1 whole FOR THE CORN SALSA:; 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil; 2 Tablespoons Frozen Corn, Thawed; 8 ounces, weight Green Pepper, Diced; 2 Tablespoons Jalapeno, Diced; ½ teaspoons Fresh Cilantro; 1 teaspoon Red Onion, Diced; ½ whole Black Beans; 3 whole Lime Juice; 1 cup Sugar; 2 whole Kosher Salt

Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

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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.

Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,539 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Avocado + tomatotop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,385 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Olive + avocadotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,449 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Avocado + oniontop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,653 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Plum + tomatotop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,480 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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 (chicken, olive, avocado, plum, tomato, onion, cream):

Limefits better
Cherryfits better
Coconutfits better
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, olive, avocado, plum, tomato, onion, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Black Bean	1/2 cup canned (120g) drained	114
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Broccoli	1 cup chopped (156g)	55
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Plum	1 medium (66g)	30
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0

Chicken Burrito Bowl