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Avocado Potato Salad

A salad of diced potatoes, celery, sweet onion, avocado, cilantro, dressed with lemon, garlic, mayonnaise, and olive oil.

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Why it works: Potato and avocado match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 111 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Directions

Make the dressing

  1. Mix lemon juice and garlic; stir in mayonnaise and olive oil; reserve.

Assemble the salad

  1. Combine potatoes, celery and onion; fold in reserved dressing.

  2. Gently fold in avocado and cilantro.

  3. Garnish 1/2 cup serving with cilantro sprigs or celery leaves.

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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.

  1. Potato + avocadotop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together111 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Potato + oniontop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,019 recipes

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

  4. Lemon + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,467 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Red new potatoes
Provide the bulk and firm, starchy body of the salad.
Avocados
Add creamy richness and fat that gives the salad a smooth texture.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and creaminess that binds the dressing together.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens flavor and slows avocado browning.
Olive oil
Adds fat and smoothness to the dressing.
Celery
Adds crisp texture and a fresh, crunchy contrast.

The step that matters

Gently fold in avocado and cilantro. Avocado flesh is soft and breaks down easily, so folding gently keeps the pieces intact and limits browning from exposed surfaces being stirred and bruised.

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, olive, potato, celery, onion, avocado):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Mangoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Cherryabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, olive, potato, celery, onion, avocado. 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.

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