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Zapatos Nuevos Recipe

A an easy and refreshing summer recipe with tequila, watermelon, lime juice, and agave nectar blended together and served over ice.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Zapatos Nuevos Recipe

Why it works: Agave and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 134 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Zapatos Nuevos Recipe

2 servings
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

79Calories
1 gProtein
0 gFat
21 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Watermelon1 cup diced (152g)46
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1

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

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

  1. Agave + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lime + basiltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together505 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Agave + basiltop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (agave, lime):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Jalapenofits better
  4. Basilthe original

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