Name: Tuscan White Bean Crostini
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 1 whole French Baguette, Sliced Into 1/2-inch Thick Rounds; ¼ cups Extra Virgin Olive Oil; 1 whole Large Shallot, Diced; 1 whole Carrot, Peeled And Diced; ½ whole Red Bell Pepper, Seeded And Diced; 2 cloves Garlic, Minced; 2 Tablespoons Fresh Lemon Juice; 2 Tablespoons Red Wine Vinegar; 2 cans (15 Oz. Size) Cannellini Beans, Drained And Rinsed; ¼ cups Pitted Green Olives, Diced; ¼ cups Chopped Flat Leaf Parsley; 1 Tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil; 1 teaspoon Kosher Salt; ½ teaspoons Freshly Ground Black Pepper

Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

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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.

Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Shallot + garlictop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,000 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Carrot + clovetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together5,873 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, shallot, pepper, clove, garlic, lemon, red wine):

Kalefits better
Spinachfits better
Chivefits better
Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, shallot, pepper, clove, garlic, lemon, red wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Cannellini Bean	not in our table	0

Tuscan White Bean Crostini