Name: Avocado Marmalade and Plantains
Ingredients: 2 ripe large Genuine California Avocados; 4 oz cream cheese (softened); 2 oz guava marmalade or guava preserves; 1 oz mango passion fruit liquor

Why it works: Guava and passion fruit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenol, which smells green, grassy. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

2 ripe large Genuine California Avocados
4 oz cream cheese (softened)
2 oz guava marmalade or guava preserves
1 oz mango passion fruit liquor

Directions

Make the spread

In a mixing bowl, chop avocados with cream cheese until buttery texture and creamy consistency.
Add 2 oz guava marmalade or preserves.
Mix well with electric mixer or by hand with a whisk.

Serve

Serve with crispy plantain sticks or croissants.

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Explore the science

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.

Guava + passion fruittop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together8 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenol (green, grassy).
Mango + passion fruittop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together42 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Guava + mangotop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together13 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Avocado + mangotop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together140 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Cream cheese + mangotop 8% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together39 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Avocados: Provide the buttery base and creamy texture of the spread.
Cream cheese: Adds richness and body, helping the spread hold a smooth, creamy consistency.
Guava marmalade or preserves: Adds fruit sweetness and flavor to the spread.

Flavor stand-ins for the passion fruit

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (avocado, cream cheese, guava, mango):

Limebetter flavor fit
Coconutbetter flavor fit
Pineapplebetter flavor fit
Passion fruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against avocado, cream cheese, guava, mango. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.