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Fasolia Yiahni

A Cypriot bean stew with haricot beans, vegetables, and tomato puree simmered in olive oil.

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Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Fasolia Yiahni

Timeabout 1 hour

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. In a large saucepan sauté the onion, garlic, carrot, and celery in oil until soft and translucent.

  2. Add the tomato puree and the water, then bring to a boil.

Cook the beans

  1. Drain the beans and add them to the pan.

  2. Add salt and pepper to taste.

  3. Simmer for about 1 hour, or until beans are tender.

  4. Add the parsley 15 minutes before removing from the heat.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

234Calories
4 gProtein
14 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot in our table0
Waternot 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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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

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

  5. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Haricot beans
Provide the main body of the stew and become creamy as they cook through.
Olive oil
Carries the aromatics and adds fat and flavour to the sauce.
Tomato puree
Adds concentrated tomato colour, savoury depth and a little acidity to the broth.
Onion
Softens and sweetens as it cooks, forming the flavour base of the stew.

The step that matters

Simmer until the beans are fully tender. Dried beans must be cooked long enough to break down their starch and become soft. Adding salt before they are tender is not the risk here; stopping the simmer early leaves them firm and chalky inside.

Swap the clove

The recipe marks clove as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, olive, onion, garlic, carrot, celery, tomato):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, olive, onion, garlic, carrot, celery, tomato. 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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