Name: Avocado Pico Salad
Ingredients: 2 avocados; 8 medium sized Roma (plum) tomatoes chopped; 1 regular tomato chopped; 1 cup of chopped onion; 1 cup chopped green pepper; 1 or 2 chopped jalapeno peppers; garlic about 6 to 8 tbsp or to your taste; 8 tbsp cilantro, chopped; salt to taste

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Avocado Pico Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Set the avocados aside do not peel until ready to use.
Chop all the vegetables and mix together with the salt and lime juice.
You can add more or less jalapeno according to taste.
You should let this mixture chill at least an hour.
Then clean your avocados cut in half and serve the tomato mixture over the top.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

382Calories

7 gProtein

23 gFat

45 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 10 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Plum	1 medium (66g)	30
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Jalapeno	1 pepper (14g)	4
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

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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.

Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Avocado + jalapenotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together441 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Avocado + tomatotop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,385 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14,076 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Jalapeno + garlictop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,700 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the plum

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

Limefits better
Mangofits better
Cherryfits about as well
Plumthe original

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