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Five Bean Salad

A hearty side dish

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and lentils match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 135 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Five Bean Salad

Serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

331Calories
10 gProtein
14 gFat
43 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 12 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Lentil1/2 cup cooked (99g)115
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Coriandernot in our table0
Seednot in our table0
Saladnot in our table0
Beannot in our table0
Peppermintnot 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.

By bbcgoodfood. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Beans + lentilstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Olive + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Coriander + lentilstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together273 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Coriander + beanstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,261 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Olive + lentilstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together727 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, white wine, vinegar, coriander, olive, beans, lentils):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, white wine, vinegar, coriander, olive, beans, lentils. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.