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Four Bean Salad

"This is the best bean salad my father in-law ever ate."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Four Bean Salad

Why it works: Green beans and lima beans share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Four Bean Salad

10 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

594Calories
25 gProtein
15 gFat
92 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
Pinto Bean1/2 cup (86g) canned122
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Kidney Bean1/2 cup canned (128g) drained112
Lima Bean1/2 cup (85g) cooked108
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Pimentonot 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. Green beans + lima beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Celery + green beanstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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 (sugar, white wine, vinegar, onion, pepper, celery, green beans):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Lima beansthe original
  4. Peasfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, white wine, vinegar, onion, pepper, celery, green beans. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.