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Italian Beans on Toast

Creating your own Mediterranean-influenced homemade baked beans slashes the sugar and salt content

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Italian Beans on Toast

Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Italian Beans on Toast

Serves 2

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

788Calories
20 gProtein
16 gFat
142 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sourdough1 slice (36g)93
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Cannellini Beannot 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. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Olive + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Garlic + basiltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Clove + basiltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,437 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

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

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, clove, beans, basil, bread):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, garlic, clove, beans, basil, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.