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Smashed Avocado with Crispy Chicken, Pickled Onions & Tortillas

Spread chunky homemade guacamole on flatbreads, use this southern-style fried chicken recipe to create goujons and serve with sweet onion topping

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Smashed Avocado with Crispy Chicken, Pickled Onions & Tortillas

Why it works: Avocado and coriander match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,094 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Smashed Avocado with Crispy Chicken, Pickled Onions & Tortillas

Serves 4
Prep50 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1391Calories
61 gProtein
53 gFat
174 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coriandernot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Avocado + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,094 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lemon + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,498 recipes

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

  3. Avocado + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,653 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Avocado + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together800 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (avocado, lemon, coriander, red wine, vinegar, sugar, chicken):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against avocado, lemon, coriander, red wine, vinegar, sugar, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.