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Hot and Spicy Green Beans with Tomato

"Not only is this easy to make at home but it's easy to take camping and also cook in the microwave. You can use diced tomatoes, stewed tomatoes, or whole tomatoes as long as you squeeze the whole tomatoes into pieces."

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Hot and Spicy Green Beans with Tomato

Why it works: Tomato and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,076 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Hot and Spicy Green Beans with Tomato

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

61Calories
2 gProtein
1 gFat
12 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Green beans + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together113 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

  5. Green beans + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, pepper, garlic):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Eggplantfits better
  3. Okrafits better
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, pepper, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.