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Simple Green Beans

This simple recipe, from Gordon Ramsay, is full of flavour and will add colour to any meal

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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Simple Green Beans

Why it works: Green beans and shallot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Simple Green Beans

Serves 4

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

38Calories
1 gProtein
0 gFat
8 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
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. Green beans + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7 recipes

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

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