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Tasty Green Beans

"This is an easy yet delicious way to prepare green beans. Slightly crispy and bursting with flavor!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Green beans and garlic work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 197 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, soy (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Melt the margarine in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the chopped onion and cook for 4 minutes, until softened.

  2. Stir in the minced garlic and cook for 1 minute, until fragrant.

  3. In a small bowl, whisk the soy sauce, beef bouillon and water until the bouillon dissolves.

  4. Add the rinsed and trimmed green beans to the skillet, pour the soy mixture over them and stir to coat.

  5. Cover and simmer over medium-low heat for 20 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes, until the beans are tender.

  6. Uncover, raise the heat to medium and cook for 5 minutes so the liquid reduces slightly.

  7. Season with salt and pepper to taste and serve hot.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Green beans + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Onion + beeftop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,091 recipes

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

  4. Beef + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18,971 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

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

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