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Copa Verde Recipe

A unique recipe for a smooth, blended avocado cocktail with tequila, lime juice, and agave nectar.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Copa Verde Recipe

Why it works: Lime and avocado 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 ↓

Copa Verde Recipe

6 (4-ounce) drinks
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

276Calories
3 gProtein
22 gFat
23 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Syrupnot in our table0

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. Lime + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lime + agavetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Agave + avocadotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Thyme + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

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

  5. Thyme + avocadotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Swap the thyme

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

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

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