Name: Mexican Guacamole for the Movie Stars
Ingredients: 3 soft avocados; ½ red onions; 2 limes; ½ red bell pepper; 2 garlic cloves; 5 serrano chiles or 3 jalapeño chiles; 5 cilantro branches

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 ↓

Mexican Guacamole for the Movie Stars

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the vegetables

Chop onion, bell pepper, cilantro, garlic and chiles as fine as possible.
Mix them well and add the juice of half a lime.

Make the guacamole

Mash the avocados with a fork, one by one.
Add salt to taste and the juice of half a lime per avocado.
Mix the first ingredients with the avocados.

Serve

Leaving the avocado pits in the bowl preserves the dip.
Serve it with tortilla chips and enjoy with your favorite beer. SALUD!

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

331Calories

6 gProtein

23 gFat

34 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Red Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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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.

Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,117 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,491 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Avocado + oniontop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,653 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Avocados: Provide the creamy fat and smooth body that make up the dip.
Limes: Add acidity that brightens flavor and slows browning of the avocado.
Red onion: Adds sharp, pungent bite that contrasts with the rich avocado.
Garlic cloves: Contribute pungent aroma that deepens the savory flavor.
Serrano or jalapeño chiles: Add heat and fresh green flavor to the dip.
Cilantro: Adds fresh, herbal aroma that lifts the dip.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (avocado, onion, lime, pepper, garlic):

Corianderfits better
Cuminfits better
Thymefits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against avocado, onion, lime, pepper, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.