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Baked Mini Frankfurters in Creamy Bean Sauce

The children (and adults) love this at a BBQ or for any get-together!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Baked Mini Frankfurters in Creamy Bean Sauce

Why it works: Beans and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,713 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Baked Mini Frankfurters in Creamy Bean Sauce

Serves 8
Prep6 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

428Calories
28 gProtein
32 gFat
6 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Frankfurternot in our table0
Beannot in our table0
Relishnot 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 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. Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

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

  2. Beans + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

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

  3. Beef + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,448 recipes

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

  4. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  5. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beef, cream, butter, beans, tomato, sauce):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beef, cream, butter, beans, tomato, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.