Name: Avocado Salad with String Beans
Ingredients: cooked string beans; avocado; French dressing

Why it works: Beans and avocado match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 375 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Avocado Salad with String Beans

Ingredients

cooked string beans
avocado
French dressing

Directions

Combine equal parts of cooked string beans and diced avocado.
Serve with French dressing.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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.

Beans + avocadotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together375 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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What each ingredient does

Avocado: Adds creamy texture and richness that softens the crisp beans.
Cooked string beans: Provide the main body and a tender, slightly firm bite.
French dressing: Adds acidity and sweetness that brightens the salad and moistens it.

“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.