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Coconut Apple Avocado Salad

"Apples and avocados are combined with yogurt and honey and then sprinkled with coconut, slivered almonds, and blueberries for a refreshing snack."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Avocado and coconut share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 73 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Whisk the nonfat vanilla yogurt and honey together in a small bowl until smooth.

  2. For more flavor, toast the flaked coconut and slivered almonds in a dry skillet over medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes, stirring often, until light golden. Let cool.

  3. Place the diced Red Delicious apples, diced avocado and fresh blueberries in a large bowl and gently fold to combine.

  4. Pour the honey yogurt over the fruit and toss gently until everything is evenly coated.

  5. Fold in most of the coconut and almonds, reserving a small amount of each for topping.

  6. Transfer to a serving bowl, sprinkle with the reserved coconut and almonds, and serve right away so the avocado stays bright.

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

  1. Avocado + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

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

  2. Coconut + vanillatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Yogurt + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together659 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Apple + honeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together567 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Vanilla + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,262 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, avocado, coconut, vanilla, yogurt, honey):

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Pecansabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Flaxseedabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Peanutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, avocado, coconut, vanilla, yogurt, honey. 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).