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Stuffed Pepper Salad

A salad of green peppers stuffed with a cottage cheese, salt, and paprika mixture, served chilled with lettuce and French dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lettuce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,037 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stuffed Pepper Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mix cottage cheese, salt, and paprika in a bowl.

Prepare the peppers

  1. Cover the peppers with boiling water and let them stand for 5 minutes.

  2. Cut off the stem end and remove the seeds from the peppers.

Stuff and chill

  1. Fill the peppers with the cheese mixture and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, until the cheese is firm.

Serve

  1. Cut the stuffed peppers into ½ inch slices and arrange them on a bed of lettuce.

  2. Drizzle with French dressing 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. Pepper + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,037 recipes

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

  2. Cottage cheese + lettucetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Pepper + cottage cheesetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Green peppers
Serve as the hollow shell that holds the filling and gives the salad its crisp bite.
Cottage cheese
Forms the creamy, mild filling that sets firm as it chills.
Paprika
Adds mild color and a gentle, earthy aroma to the cheese filling.

The step that matters

Refrigerate the stuffed peppers for at least 1 hour. Chilling lets the cottage cheese firm up so the filling holds its shape when the peppers are sliced. Slicing too early can make the filling crumble or spill out.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, cottage cheese. 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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