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Crostini with White Beans, Garlic and Tuscan Kale

Pungent garlic mellowed by braising, creamy white beans and peppery olive oil combine to create an innovative topping for toasted bread slices. It’s an inspired way to showcase the hearty, slightly bitter greens that proliferate in the winter farmers’ market

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Crostini with White Beans, Garlic and Tuscan Kale

Why it works: Kale and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 490 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Crostini with White Beans, Garlic and Tuscan Kale

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

310Calories
32 gProtein
18 gFat
5 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cannellini 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 williamssonoma. 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. Kale + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Kale + beanstop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Olive + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,470 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 clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kale, olive, garlic, chicken, beans, pepper):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Rosemaryfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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