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Portuguese Beans with Kale and Linguica

"This makes a great winter meal or addition to a barbeque or potluck."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Portuguese Beans with Kale and Linguica

Why it works: Beans and cumin match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,188 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Portuguese Beans with Kale and Linguica

15 servings
Prep20 min
Cook5 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

369Calories
33 gProtein
19 gFat
18 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Beannot in our table0
Savorynot in our table0
Saucenot 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.

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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. Beans + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,188 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + kaletop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Garlic + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

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

  5. Beans + kaletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, onion, garlic, pepper, cumin, kale, sauce):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Oreganofits better
  4. Clovethe original

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