Name: Sauted Cannellini Beans with Garlic Recipe
Yield: Serves 4-6
Ingredients: 2 cans cannellini beans; 1 teaspoon fresh parsley chopped fine; 3 tablespoons roasted garlic (or less if you don't like that much garlic) Now I get my roasted garlic from the grocery store or you can roast my own. But this is a quick 5 minute dish so I take advantage of the pre roasted garlic when needed. Sometimes I roast mine on the weekend and have some left.; 1 tablespoon fresh thyme chopped fine; 1 large shallot diced fine; 1 dash of red pepper just for some heat; Olive oil to saute

Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Sauted Cannellini Beans with Garlic Recipe

Serves 4-6

Ingredients

2 cans cannellini beans
1 teaspoon fresh parsley chopped fine
3 tablespoons roasted garlic (or less if you don't like that much garlic) Now I get my roasted garlic from the grocery store or you can roast my own. But this is a quick 5 minute dish so I take advantage of the pre roasted garlic when needed. Sometimes I roast mine on the weekend and have some left.
1 tablespoon fresh thyme chopped fine
1 large shallot diced fine
1 dash of red pepper just for some heat
Olive oil to saute

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

143Calories

1 gProtein

14 gFat

5 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Shallot	1 tbsp minced (10g)	7
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Thyme	1 tsp dried (1.4g)	4
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Cannellini Bean	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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.

Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together9,057 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).
Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,737 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Thyme + shallottop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,476 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parsley, garlic, thyme, shallot, pepper, olive):

Chickpeafits better
Black-eyed peafits better
Lentilsfits better
Beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parsley, garlic, thyme, shallot, pepper, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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