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Avocado Lime Cheesecake

"I love Mexican food, but Mexican desserts are limited. Flan is great, but not every time. This recipe has real Mexican flavor with avocados and lime. My friends make me make it constantly. It is unique, easy, and fabulous. You must have an ice cream maker."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Avocado Lime Cheesecake

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 ↓

Avocado Lime Cheesecake

1 cheesecake
Prep20 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

516Calories
6 gProtein
39 gFat
42 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cracker5 saltine crackers (15g)66
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. 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. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Cream + cream cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Avocado + cream cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together76 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Cream + avocadotop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together154 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sugar, avocado, cream cheese):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Strawberryfits about as well
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, avocado, cream cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.