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Green Beans & Radishes with Shallot Dressing

Give your side dish some lightness and crunch with thinly sliced radish, then dress with mustard and lemon

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Green Beans & Radishes with Shallot Dressing

Why it works: Shallot and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 859 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Green Beans & Radishes with Shallot Dressing

Serves 6
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

158Calories
3 gProtein
1 gFat
39 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
Rapeseed Oilnot 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. Shallot + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together859 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Mustard + radishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together297 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Shallot + radishtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Green beans + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the banana

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Bananathe original

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