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Green Beans with Cherry Tomatoes

"These beans are briefly boiled and tossed with cherry tomatoes in a buttery basil sauce to make the most yummy green beans ever! We serve these at Easter Dinner every year but are a delicious accent to any meal."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cherry tomato work together. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and 6 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep5 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Bring a large pot of water to a boil, enough to cover the beans, then add the trimmed green bean pieces and cook for 6 to 7 minutes until crisp-tender.

  2. Drain the beans well in a colander and set them aside.

  3. Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat.

  4. Stir in the sugar, garlic salt and pepper, then add the cherry tomato halves and cook for 3 minutes, stirring gently, until they just begin to soften.

  5. Add the drained green beans to the skillet and toss for 2 to 3 minutes until heated through and coated with the butter mixture.

  6. Remove from the heat, stir in the chopped fresh basil, and serve warm.

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. Sugar + cherry tomatotop 26% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Pepper + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,292 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Garlic + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Basil + cherry tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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