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Green Bean Salad with Feta

"This super-green salad has lots of antioxidants, including lutein, beta carotene and vitamin C, and it's a delicious way to help you rack up the seven to nine daily servings of fruits and vegetables recommended for adults."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Green beans and fennel work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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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 + fenneltop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5 recipes

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

  2. Feta cheese + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,438 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Orange + fenneltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together201 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Olive + orangetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,184 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Green beans + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the fennel

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, feta cheese, olive, vinegar, orange, pepper):

  1. Rosemarybetter flavor fit
  2. Dillbetter flavor fit
  3. Basilbetter flavor fit
  4. Fennelthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, feta cheese, olive, vinegar, orange, pepper. 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).