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Green Beans with Soured Cream Dressing

British beans are ready for harvest from June, and make a great, easy, salad with a few extras

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Green Beans with Soured Cream Dressing

Why it works: Hazelnut and cream work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 332 recipes. Both carry octanal, which smells fat, soap. The science ↓

Green Beans with Soured Cream Dressing

Serves 4 as a side dish

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

244Calories
4 gProtein
22 gFat
6 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Hazelnutnot 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. Hazelnut + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together332 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  2. Green beans + hazelnuttop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Green beans + creamtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

Swap the green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (hazelnut, cream):

  1. Beetrootfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Parsnipfits better
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against hazelnut, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.