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Broad Bean, Courgette and Pancetta Salad Recipe

Make this in July and August when broad beans appear. I recommend you buy a big chunk of pancetta and chop it up yourself – it stores in the fridge for weeks.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 852 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Broad Bean, Courgette and Pancetta Salad Recipe

4 people
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

151Calories
1 gProtein
16 gFat
1 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Broad Beannot 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 lovefood. 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 + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

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

  2. Beans + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,470 recipes

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

  3. Olive + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, olive, white wine, vinegar, mustard):

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, olive, white wine, vinegar, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.