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Vegetarian Bean Dip

This is a very easy and healthy vegetarian bean dip!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and kidney beans match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 364 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 10
Prep20 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Contains: wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Also mentioned in the method: crackers, tortillas

Directions

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

  1. Drain and rinse the black beans, kidney beans, black eyed peas, yellow corn and white corn in a colander under cold running water.

  2. Add the rinsed beans and corn to a large mixing bowl.

  3. Add the sliced cherry tomatoes, diced white onion and seeded diced jalapeno to the bowl.

  4. Sprinkle in the garlic powder and red pepper chili flakes, then pour over the Italian dressing and stir gently until everything is evenly coated.

  5. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes so the flavors blend.

  6. Just before serving, peel, pit and slice the avocado, then fold the slices gently into the dip or arrange them on top.

  7. Serve the dip cold with tortilla chips or crackers.

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. Beans + kidney beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together364 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Jalapeno + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together441 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Beans + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,211 recipes

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

  4. Beans + peastop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together949 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Beans + avocadotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together375 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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 (beans, kidney beans, peas, corn, onion, jalapeno, avocado):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Mangobetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, kidney beans, peas, corn, onion, jalapeno, avocado. 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).