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Super Duper Bean Salad

"Bean salad with TONS of beans in it. It's just super duper!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Super Duper Bean Salad

Why it works: Lima beans and green 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 ↓

Super Duper Bean Salad

6 servings
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

475Calories
18 gProtein
15 gFat
70 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Kidney Bean1/2 cup canned (128g) drained112
Lima Bean1/2 cup (85g) cooked108
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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. Lima beans + green beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

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

  2. Beans + lima beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together156 recipes

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

  3. Beans + green beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together36 recipes

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

  4. Kidney beans + lima beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

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

  5. Kidney beans + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together364 recipes

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

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 (kidney beans, beans, lima beans, green beans, pepper, sugar, vinegar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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