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Holiday Bean Salad

"My Grandmother makes this during the Thanksgiving holidays, but it's welcome all year long."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Holiday Bean Salad

Why it works: Green beans and lima beans share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Holiday Bean Salad

4 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

188Calories
10 gProtein
1 gFat
37 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lima Bean1/2 cup (85g) cooked108
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Iceberg Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Salad Dressingnot in our table0
Pimentonot in our table0

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.

  1. Green beans + lima beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Green beans + lettucetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Onion + lettucetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,562 recipes

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

  4. Lima beans + lettucetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Green beans + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together334 recipes

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

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, lima beans, lettuce):

  1. Beetrootfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, lima beans, lettuce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.