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Garlic Buttered Green Beans

Spring fresh green beans with red bell peppers and buttery garlic sauce!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Green beans and garlic 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

Serves 8
Prep15 min
Cook15 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 large pot of salted water to a boil and blanch the trimmed green beans for 3 minutes, then drain and set aside.

  2. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the sliced red bell pepper and cook for 4 minutes, stirring occasionally, until softened.

  3. Add the minced garlic and cook for 1 minute until fragrant, taking care not to brown it.

  4. Add the drained green beans, kosher salt and black pepper. Toss for 3 minutes until heated through and tender-crisp.

  5. Reduce heat to low, add the butter pieces and toss until melted and evenly coated, about 1 minute. Serve warm.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Green beans + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together197 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Green beans + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Pepper + garlictop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,044 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptenal (green).

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