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Potluck Chickpea Salad Recipe

This is my potluck staple. It's incredibly delicious and vegan, so almost everyone can eat it. Adapted from Mexican Chickpea Salad from Moosewood Daily Special...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Avocado and lime 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 ↓

Potluck Chickpea Salad Recipe

6-8 servings as a side dish

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

462Calories
13 gProtein
25 gFat
57 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Chickpea1/2 cup canned (120g) drained134
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
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 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. Avocado + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,117 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Chickpea + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together813 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chickpea, tomato, onion, garlic, avocado, lime, pepper):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Corianderfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chickpea, tomato, onion, garlic, avocado, lime, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.