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Fried Tomatoes with Onions

Fried tomatoes with onions cooked in lard until golden brown.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,633 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Fried Tomatoes with Onions

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the tomatoes and onion thinly.

Fry

  1. Heat the lard in a skillet over medium heat.

  2. Fry the sliced tomatoes and onions in the hot lard until golden brown.

  3. Serve hot.

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. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Provide the main body and moisture that softens and browns in the hot fat.
Onion
Adds sweetness and savory depth as it softens and caramelizes in the fat.
Lard
Conducts heat for frying and adds richness and browning to the surfaces.

The step that matters

Fry in hot lard until golden brown. The lard must be hot before the slices go in, otherwise the tomatoes and onions absorb fat and steam instead of searing. Good contact with hot fat drives browning and gives a crisp golden surface.

“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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