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Cold Melon Salsa

"This salsa recipe uses an unusual combination of ingredients - melons, onions, jalapenos, etc. It's a wonderful item to serve at parties as a dip with your favorite taco chips. Also great when eaten with fish, or even as a topping to a salad."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Cold Melon Salsa

Why it works: Jalapeno and lime are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,035 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Cold Melon Salsa

8 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

208Calories
6 gProtein
2 gFat
48 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Orange Juice1 medium (131g)62
Cantaloupe1 cup diced (160g)53
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Melonnot 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 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. Jalapeno + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

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

  3. Orange + limetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together937 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Orange + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Melon + limetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together202 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 melon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, onion, jalapeno, pepper, orange, almond, lime):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Melonthe original

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