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Not Your Everyday Green Beans

"I had a few fresh green beans that I needed to cook. I did not have enough for a meal, so I came up with this for a side dish. We loved it!"

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Not Your Everyday Green Beans

Why it works: Butter and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12,525 recipes. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

Not Your Everyday Green Beans

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

161Calories
5 gProtein
12 gFat
11 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Green Beans1 cup (100g)31
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
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.

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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. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Green beans + almondtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Green beans + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, butter, mushroom, pepper):

  1. Lima beansfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Almondthe original

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