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Creamy Succotash with Bacon, Thyme and Chives

"If fresh thyme or chives aren't available for the succotash, use dried thyme and sliced green onion tops."

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Creamy Succotash with Bacon, Thyme and Chives

Why it works: Onion and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,907 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Creamy Succotash with Bacon, Thyme and Chives

6 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

334Calories
15 gProtein
10 gFat
50 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lima Bean1/2 cup (85g) cooked108
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Chives1 tbsp (3g)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.

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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. Onion + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,907 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Lima beans + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together222 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

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

  4. Thyme + chivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Onion + thymetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the lima beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, pepper, corn, cream, thyme, chive):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Lentilsfits better
  4. Lima beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, pepper, corn, cream, thyme, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.