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Roasted Corn Succotash

A roasted corn and bean dish with Swiss chard, carrot, scallions, and sage.

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Why it works: Garlic and chard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 246 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Roasted Corn Succotash

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the beans

  1. In a medium saucepan, bring 1/2 cup water to a boil.

  2. Add fava beans and simmer until tender, about 8 minutes.

  3. Drain and set aside.

Cook the Swiss chard

  1. Meanwhile, in a Dutch oven, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium heat.

  2. Add garlic and stir for 1 minute.

  3. Stir in Swiss chard and sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.

  4. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes.

  5. Uncover and cook until tender, about 5 minutes more.

  6. Discard garlic; set Swiss chard aside.

Make the succotash and serve

  1. In a large heavy skillet, preferably cast‑iron, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon oil over medium heat.

  2. Add corn and carrot and cook, stirring occasionally, until nicely toasted, about 10 minutes.

  3. Stir in fava beans, scallions, sage, remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper and cook for 1 minute more.

  4. Divide Swiss chard among serving plates and spoon succotash alongside.

  5. Serve with hot sauce.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

385Calories
12 gProtein
15 gFat
56 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lima Bean1/2 cup (85g) cooked108
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot in our table0
Swiss Chardnot in our table0
Saucenot 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.

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Explore the science

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. Garlic + chardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together246 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Beans + chardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Beans + corntop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,211 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Beans + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,443 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Fava beans or baby lima beans
Provide creamy, tender body and mild sweetness to the succotash.
Corn
Adds sweetness, and toasting in the skillet browns the kernels for deeper flavor.
Swiss chard
Forms the tender green base, wilting down to a soft, moist bed for the succotash.
Carrot
Adds subtle sweetness and a soft, slightly crisp texture when cooked with the corn.
Vegetable oil
Conducts heat for cooking and helps the vegetables brown rather than steam.

The step that matters

Toast the corn and carrot until nicely browned. Cooking corn in a hot, dry skillet until it browns caramelizes its natural sugars, adding roasted flavor; stirring only occasionally lets the kernels develop color instead of steaming.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, garlic, chard, pepper, corn, carrot, sage):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, garlic, chard, pepper, corn, carrot, sage. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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