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Roast Tomatoes

Roasted tomatoes stuffed with rich chicken dressing and sprinkled with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,031 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Roast Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Cut a slice off the top of each tomato and remove most of the inside.

  2. Fill the tomatoes with a rich chicken dressing and replace the tops.

Roast and serve

  1. Place the tomatoes in a pan without water and roast in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 45 minutes or until done.

  2. Sprinkle sugar over the tomatoes and serve.

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.

Explore the science

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. Tomato + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Tomato + sugartop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,667 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + sugartop 39% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,461 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Large tomatoes
Form the edible container; roasting softens the flesh and concentrates their juices.
Rich dressing
Adds richness and savory flavor to the filling while absorbing juices from the tomatoes.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the tomatoes' acidity once they are roasted.

The step that matters

Roasting until done. Tomatoes must roast long enough to soften and concentrate their flavor, and the filling must heat through. The record gives no clear doneness sign, so check that the tomatoes are soft and the filling is hot.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, sugar):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sugar. 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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