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Golden, Crispy Gnocchi with Summer Shell Beans

My favorite new way to make gnocchi in a flash - no boil. Cook them in a skillet until they are golden and crusted, and in this case serve with summer shell beans and shredded cheese.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and cranberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 55 recipes mention both. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4-6.

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By 101cookbooks. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Beans + cranberrytop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together55 recipes

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

  2. Chanterelle + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together19 recipes

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

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together12,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Thyme + shallottop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Mushroom + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, cranberry, butter, chanterelle, mushroom, thyme, shallot):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  3. Limebetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, cranberry, butter, chanterelle, mushroom, thyme, shallot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).