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Tierra Mojada Recipe

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By chow · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Tierra Mojada 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 ↓

Tierra Mojada Recipe

1 drink

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

103Calories
2 gProtein
1 gFat
27 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11

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 + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

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

  3. Lime + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Agave + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together123 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Lemon + peachtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (agave, lime, peach):

  1. Blueberryfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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