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Green Beans with Pine Nuts & Shallot Butter

Spruce up your greens by adding crunchy nuts and a lemony shallot dressing - a versatile side dish

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Green Beans with Pine Nuts & Shallot Butter

Why it works: Pine and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 480 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Green Beans with Pine Nuts & Shallot Butter

Serves 6

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

343Calories
6 gProtein
31 gFat
15 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7

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. Pine + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together480 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Shallot + pinetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Shallot + green beanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Green beans + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together61 recipes

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

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, shallot, pine, green beans, lemon):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, shallot, pine, green beans, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.