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Barley with Mushrooms and Green Beans Recipe

This recipe is filling enough to eat alone, but it makes for a stellar side when paired with a perfectly cooked roast or some pan-seared meat.Game plan: The...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Barley and mushroom match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 110 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

6 to 8 servings (about 6 cups)
Cook50 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (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. Barley + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together110 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Mushroom + white winetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,704 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Butter + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Butter + white winetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (barley, butter, pepper, mushroom, white wine, green beans, parsley):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against barley, butter, pepper, mushroom, white wine, green beans, parsley. 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).