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Stuffed BreaDrruit

A breadfruit stuffed with meat, boiled then baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Breadfruit and meat work together. They rank in the top 50% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

Stuffed BreaDrruit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the breadfruit with the rind on until half-cooked.

  2. Remove the top of the breadfruit.

  3. Scoop out part of the center.

Stuff and bake

  1. Stuff the breadfruit with meat.

  2. Replace the top piece.

  3. Bake the stuffed breadfruit until fully cooked.

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. Breadfruit + meattop 50% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

What each ingredient does

Breadfruit
Its starchy flesh cooks soft and forms the edible shell that holds the filling.
Meat
Forms the savory filling, adding flavor and richness inside the breadfruit.

The step that matters

Boil the breadfruit until half-cooked. Starch in the flesh softens as it heats. If it is boiled fully, it will turn mushy during the final baking and lose its shape around the filling. Stopping at half-cooked lets it finish cooking in the oven while holding its structure.

“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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