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Braised White Beans with Chard Recipe

This hearty, healthy winter recipe features quick-braised white beans that taste as if they cooked all day.This recipe was featured as part of our Cooking with...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Braised White Beans with Chard Recipe

8 to 10 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

64Calories
2 gProtein
1 gFat
14 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Cannellini Beannot in our table0
Chardnot 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 chow. 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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Garlic + chardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together246 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Beans + chardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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 (onion, garlic, beans, chard, parsley, apple cider vinegar, thyme):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, garlic, beans, chard, parsley, apple cider vinegar, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.