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Stovetop Green Beans

"This is a really delicious green been recipe. It started as an alternative to the usual green bean casserole at Thanksgiving, and now we cook it for any occasion. And, oh, it smells so good while cooking!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and green beans 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

8 servings
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Garlic + green beanstop 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. Bread + cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  5. Garlic + vinegartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,034 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, green beans, vinegar, pepper, bread, cheese):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, green beans, vinegar, pepper, bread, cheese. 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).