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Anytime Sweetcorn & Tomato Nachos

These cheesy nachos are great for nibbling on. The salsa can also be used as a healthy dip, served with vegetable sticks

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sweetcorn and coriander work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 87 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sweetcorn + coriandertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Coriander + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,966 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Avocado + coriandertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,094 recipes

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

  4. Avocado + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Avocado + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,653 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (avocado, sweetcorn, coriander, tomato):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Cucumberbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against avocado, sweetcorn, coriander, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).