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Green Bean Curry

"I ate this with rice or coconut roti almost every evening in Sri Lanka-- I could not get enough of it! Using fresh ingredients is of the utmost importance. Some of the ingredients may be difficult to find, but they really are essential. This goes very well with rice as a vegetarian entree or alone as a side dish. "

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Green beans and lime work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

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6 servings
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

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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 + limetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Fenugreek + turmerictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

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

  5. Turmeric + limetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together584 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the fenugreek

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, pepper, garlic, turmeric, green beans, coconut, milk):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  3. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  4. Fenugreekthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, pepper, garlic, turmeric, green beans, coconut, milk. 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).