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Charred Green Bean and Fennel Salad

Charred green beans and fennel with cherry tomatoes, olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Green beans and cherry tomato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 31% of all ingredient pairs. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat a large dry skillet over medium-high heat until very hot.

  2. Add the green beans in a single layer and char them, turning occasionally, for about 5 minutes until blistered in spots and just tender-crisp. Transfer to a bowl.

  3. Add the sliced fennel to the same hot skillet and char for about 3 to 4 minutes, turning once, until golden at the edges and tender-crisp.

  4. Let the beans and fennel cool for 2 minutes, then add the halved cherry tomatoes to the bowl.

  5. Toss everything gently together and serve at once while the vegetables are still slightly warm.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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 + cherry tomatotop 31% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Green beans + fenneltop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Fennel + cherry tomatotop 34% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, fennel):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limebetter flavor fit
  3. Orangebetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, fennel. 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).