Name: Chicken Guacamole Tacostadas
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: (Serves 4)
Ingredients: 6 small whole grain tortillas (I toasted these on a hot griddle, not necessary, but added a nice smoky flavor); Shredded cheese (cheddar, monterrey jack, whatev); Plain Greek yogurt (or sour cream); 2 medium chicken breasts; 2 T. olive oil; 2 T. lime juice; 1 t. cumin; 1 t. Montreal Steak Seasoning (one of my favorites!); 2 avocados, peeled and mashed; 1/2 medium onion, diced; 2 plum tomatoes, diced; 1/4 c. cilantro, diced; 1 t. minced garlic; 1 T. lime juice; Salt and pepper; 1/2 medium onion, diced; 3 plum tomatoes, diced; 1/4 c. cilantro, diced; 1 jalapeno, diced (we removed all seeds, but add as many as your tastes dictate); 1 t. minced garlic; 1 T. lime juice; Salt and pepper

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 ↓

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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.

Lime + avocadotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,117 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Lime + cumintop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,216 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Cumin + avocadotop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together415 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).
Olive + avocadotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,449 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Avocado + oniontop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,653 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, yogurt, chicken, olive, lime, cumin, avocado):

Tomatofits better
Capsicumfits better
Welsh onionfits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, yogurt, chicken, olive, lime, cumin, avocado. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Beef	100g cooked	250
Avocado	1 medium (150g)	240
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Tortilla	1 medium flour (45g)	140
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Cheddar Cheese	1 oz (28g)	113
Yogurt	170g plain Greek	100
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Plum	1 medium (66g)	30
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Cumin	1 tsp ground (2.1g)	8
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Seed	not in our table	0

Chicken Guacamole Tacostadas