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Green Bean Casserole Redux Recipe

For many, the word casserole brings to mind this Thanksgiving classic, most often made with what we consider to be the Holy Trinity of Casserole Ingredients...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 23,449 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

3 servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Thyme + shallottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Olive + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,641 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Mushroom + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Mushroom + shallottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,960 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the thyme

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, olive, mushroom, garlic, sauce, shallot, flour):

  1. Capersabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Thymethe original
  3. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, olive, mushroom, garlic, sauce, shallot, flour. 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).