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Giant Black Bean Salad Recipe

A twist on the ubiquitous black bean salad - giant black beans and toasted almonds are tossed with a honey-jalapeno-lime dressing and served with a bit of crumbled feta over a bed of baby arugula.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 23,449 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

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Ingredients

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

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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. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Vinegar + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Vinegar + honeytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,583 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Mustard + arugulatop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together158 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Vinegar + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

Vinegar and mustard share little aroma chemistry, yet 14,067 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the arugula

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lime, white wine, vinegar, honey, garlic, mustard, olive):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Broccolibetter flavor fit
  4. Arugulathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lime, white wine, vinegar, honey, garlic, mustard, olive. 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).