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Black Bean Cakes with Fried Eggs and Avocado Crema Recipe

Cilantro and hot sauce flavored black bean cakes topped with fried eggs and tangy avocado sour cream add Mexican flavor to breakfast.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Black Bean Cakes with Fried Eggs and Avocado Crema Recipe

Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Black Bean Cakes with Fried Eggs and Avocado Crema Recipe

6 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1298Calories
49 gProtein
58 gFat
151 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Canola1 tbsp (14g)124
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Black Bean1/2 cup canned (120g) drained114
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 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.

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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Beans + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together375 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Onion + avocadotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,653 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Beans + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,935 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + avocadotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, garlic, egg, onion, sauce, avocado, cream):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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