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Marinated Five Bean Salad

"This peppy bean salad is a colorful mix of green, yellow wax, red kidney, garbanzo, and black beans, perked up by a dressing with mustard, cilantro and tarragon."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Marinated Five Bean Salad

Why it works: Green beans and beans share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 36 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Marinated Five Bean Salad

10 servings
Prep30 min
Cook3 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

317Calories
10 gProtein
15 gFat
37 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Black Bean1/2 cup canned (120g) drained114
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Tarragon1 tsp dried (0.5g)2
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Beannot in our table0
Red Kidney Beannot 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 + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together36 recipes

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

  2. Beans + kidney beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together364 recipes

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

  3. Beans + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

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

  4. Green beans + kidney beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 recipes

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

  5. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 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 kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, beans, onion, pepper, red wine, vinegar, mustard):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Lima beansfits better
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, beans, onion, pepper, red wine, vinegar, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.