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Fresh Green Bean and Blue Cheese Salad

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By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Fresh Green Bean and Blue Cheese Salad

Why it works: Mustard and sunflower match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 233 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Fresh Green Bean and Blue Cheese Salad

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook1 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

427Calories
14 gProtein
36 gFat
16 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Green Beans1 cup (100g)31
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. 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. Mustard + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together233 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Olive + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together698 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Green beans + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together116 recipes

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

  4. Olive + mustardtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Green beans + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together226 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 green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, apple cider vinegar, mustard, pepper, blue cheese, sunflower):

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Broccolifits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, apple cider vinegar, mustard, pepper, blue cheese, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.