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Green Bean Bundles

"Steamed and then baked, these scrumptious green beans take on great flavor, because they are wrapped in bacon and bathed in a savory sauce. This recipe is best when you marinate the bundles overnight."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Green beans and garlic work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 197 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

20 bundles
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, soy, fish (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. Preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C). Cut each bacon slice in half crosswise to make 20 pieces. Trim the ends of the green beans.

  2. Bring a pan of boiling water to a boil, add the green beans, and cook for 2 minutes until just bright green. Drain and let them cool slightly.

  3. Dissolve the beef bouillon cube in a splash of boiling water in a small saucepan. Stir in the Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, melted butter, brown sugar, and garlic powder until smooth.

  4. Divide the green beans into 20 small bundles. Wrap each bundle with a half slice of bacon and place seam side down in a baking dish.

  5. Brush the bundles with the glaze. Bake for 20 minutes, basting once halfway through, until the bacon is crisp and cooked through, about 20 minutes.

  6. Spoon any remaining glaze over the bundles just before serving.

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. Green beans + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Beef + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Sauce + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together15,317 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Beef + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,835 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Green beans + beeftop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together35 recipes

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

Sauce and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 15,317 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, beef, sauce, butter, sugar):

  1. Cinnamonabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Gingerabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Pepperabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, beef, sauce, butter, sugar. 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).