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Skinny Margaritas

Super fresh, skinny margaritas made with fresh lime juice, orange juice and agave nectar. The best margarita you’ll ever have!

By cookieandkate · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Skinny Margaritas

Why it works: Lime and agave 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 ↓

Skinny Margaritas

Serves 1

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

94Calories
2 gProtein
0 gFat
24 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Orange Juice1 medium (131g)62
Agave1 tsp (7g)21
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
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 cookieandkate. 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 + agavetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lime + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Orange + agavetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the orange

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

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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