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Creamy Butter Beans with Crispy Crumbs

This superhealthy side tastes deceptively indulgent

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Creamy Butter Beans with Crispy Crumbs

Why it works: Garlic and chive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,149 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Creamy Butter Beans with Crispy Crumbs

Serves 4
Prep5 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

675Calories
20 gProtein
22 gFat
96 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Chive1 tbsp (3g)1
Beannot in our table0
Sunflower 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. Garlic + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Beans + chivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together180 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Chive + sunflowertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together67 recipes

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

  4. Beans + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,935 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Beans + sunflowertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 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 garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, beans, cheese, chive, sunflower):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits about as well
  3. Cuminfits about as well
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, beans, cheese, chive, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.