Name: Green Bean & Tomato Salad with Lemon Dijon Vinaigrette
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 3 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 pound FOR THE SALAD:; 1 cup Fresh Green Beans, Cleaned And End Trimmed Off; 2 Tablespoons Cherry Or Grape Tomatoes, Halved; 2 Tablespoons Shallot, Minced; 2 Tablespoons FOR THE VINAIGRETTE:; 1 Tablespoon Fresh Lemon Juice; 1 Tablespoon Dijon Mustard; ½ teaspoons Rice Wine Vinegar; 1 clove Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Why it works: Shallot and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 859 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Green Bean & Tomato Salad with Lemon Dijon Vinaigrette

Serves 4

Prep10 min

Cook3 min

Ingredients

1 pound FOR THE SALAD:
1 cup Fresh Green Beans, Cleaned And End Trimmed Off
2 Tablespoons Cherry Or Grape Tomatoes, Halved
2 Tablespoons Shallot, Minced
2 Tablespoons FOR THE VINAIGRETTE:
1 Tablespoon Fresh Lemon Juice
1 Tablespoon Dijon Mustard
½ teaspoons Rice Wine Vinegar
1 clove Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

584Calories

10 gProtein

15 gFat

103 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Cherry	1 cup (138g)	87
Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Green Beans	1 cup (100g)	31
Wine	2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)	25
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Salad	not in our table	0

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.

Shallot + mustardtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together859 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Shallot + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,677 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,523 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Cherry + clovetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together474 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Green beans + mustardtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together116 recipes

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

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 (cherry, shallot, lemon, mustard, rice wine, vinegar, clove):

Lettucefits better
Chivefits better
Broccolifits better
Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cherry, shallot, lemon, mustard, rice wine, vinegar, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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