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Greek Green Bean Salad

"A new twist on a summertime favorite: green beans, cherry tomatoes are tossed with fresh parsley feta cheese and a greek dressing to make a healthy green bean salad."

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Why it works: Green beans and cherry tomato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Bring a pan of water to a boil, add the green beans and cook 3 to 4 minutes until crisp-tender, then drain and cool under cold running water.

  2. Put the cooled green beans, cherry tomatoes, red bell pepper, red onion, parsley and minced garlic in a large bowl and toss gently to combine.

  3. Pour the Greek dressing and marinade over the vegetables and toss until everything is evenly coated.

  4. Crumble the feta cheese over the salad and toss lightly so it is distributed without breaking up too much.

  5. Cover and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes so the flavors meld, then serve chilled or at cool room temperature.

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 + cherry tomatotop 31% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Oregano + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,767 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, pepper, onion, parsley, garlic, oregano, tomato):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, pepper, onion, parsley, garlic, oregano, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).