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Haricot Beans Bicé- Fritters

Fritters made from mashed haricot beans, onion, flour, salt, and pepper, fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,242 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Haricot Beans Bicé- Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the beans

  1. Soak the haricot beans overnight.

  2. Cook the beans until tender.

Shape the fritters

  1. Mash the beans and mix with chopped onion, flour, salt, and pepper.

  2. Form the mixture into small fritters.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat oil in a pan.

  2. Fry the fritters until golden brown on both sides.

  3. Drain the fritters on paper towels before serving.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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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 + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,242 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Beans + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Beans + flourtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,080 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Onion + flourtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Haricot beans
Form the bulk of the fritters and provide their starchy, mashable body.
Onion
Adds moisture and savoury flavour to the mixture.
Flour
Binds the mashed beans so the fritters hold their shape while frying.

The step that matters

Fry the fritters until golden brown on both sides. Oil must be hot enough to brown the surface quickly; if it is too cool, the fritters absorb excess oil and turn greasy and soft inside before a crisp crust forms.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, flour, pepper):

  1. Okrafits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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