Name: Grandma's Heart-Stoppin' Green Bean Soup
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 1 pound bacon, cut into 1 inch pieces; 2 (15 ounce) cans green beans; 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour, or as needed; 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar, or to taste

Grandma's Heart-Stoppin' Green Bean Soup

"This is a tasty dish from back in the days when flavor was all that mattered. This soup consists of green beans and bacon in a thick bacon gravy. Two pounds of fresh green beans may be used instead of canned."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients

Why it works: Green beans and flour work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 101 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Grandma's Heart-Stoppin' Green Bean Soup

6 servings

Prep15 min

Cook1 hr

Ingredients

1 pound bacon, cut into 1 inch pieces
2 (15 ounce) cans green beans
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour, or as needed
2 teaspoons red wine vinegar, or to taste

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

532Calories

17 gProtein

5 gFat

101 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3

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.

Green beans + flourtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together101 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + red winetop 24% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,235 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Green beans + red winetop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5 recipes

Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, red wine):

Shallotfits better
Arrowrootfits better
Turnipfits better
Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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