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Runner Bean & Prosciutto Pasta

With just five ingredients, this is the perfect pasta dish to have up your sleeve on a lazy day

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Runner Bean & Prosciutto Pasta

Why it works: Beans and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,470 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Runner Bean & Prosciutto Pasta

Serves 2
Prep10 min
Cook12 min

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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. Beans + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,470 recipes

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

  2. Prosciutto + olivetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together568 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Beans + prosciuttotop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together27 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

Swap the beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (prosciutto, olive):

  1. Peasfits better
  2. Beansthe original
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Chestnutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against prosciutto, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.