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Green Beans with Caramelized Onions and Pecans

Crisp green beans tossed with caramelized onions, toasted pecans, and sweet dried cranberries. This simple side dish would look good on your Thanksgiving menu.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Green Beans with Caramelized Onions and Pecans

Why it works: Olive and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,779 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Green Beans with Caramelized Onions and Pecans

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

554Calories
6 gProtein
46 gFat
37 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pecans1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)196
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Green Beans1 cup (100g)31

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. Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Olive + green beanstop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together226 recipes

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

  3. Olive + pecanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together716 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Butter + pecanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,416 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Onion + green beanstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together334 recipes

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

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

Swap the pecans

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

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Lima beansfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, onion, green beans, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.