Name: Warm Spring Vegetable Salad with Favas, Green Beans, and Radicchio Recipe
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
Ingredients: 1/2 pound thin green beans, cleaned and trimmed; 1/2 pound fresh peas, shelled; 2 pounds fava beans in their pods, shelled (about 2 cups); 3/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil; 1 large red onion (about 1/2 pound), sliced into 1/4-inch-thick pieces; 2 large heads radicchio, washed, dried, cored, and cut crosswise into 1/2-inch-wide pieces; 1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh Italian parsley; 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh thyme; 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh rosemary; 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest; 3 to 4 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice (from about 2 lemons); 1/4 cup heavy cream

Why it works: Thyme and rosemary match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,340 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

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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.

Thyme + rosemarytop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,340 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Green beans + beanstop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together36 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,057 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Green beans + peastop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together54 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,590 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (green beans, peas, beans, olive, parsley, thyme, rosemary):

Tomatofits better
Shallotfits better
Carrotfits better
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against green beans, peas, beans, olive, parsley, thyme, rosemary. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Peas	1/2 cup (72g)	62
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Rosemary	1 tsp dried (1.2g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Bean	not in our table	0
Radicchio	not in our table	0

Warm Spring Vegetable Salad with Favas, Green Beans, and Radicchio Recipe