Name: Roasted Tomato and Goat Cheese Omelet
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 35 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 1 pint FOR THE ROASTED TOMATOES:; ½ teaspoons Cherry Tomatoes, Washed And Cut In Hald; ¼ teaspoons Olive Oil; 2 Red Pepper Flakes; 2 teaspoons Salt And Pepper, to taste; 1 pinch FOR THE OMELET:; ¼ cups Large Eggs; 2 teaspoons Milk; ¼ teaspoons Salt And Pepper, to taste; ¼ Roasted Tomato (see Recipe Below)

Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

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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.

Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,539 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,923 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Cherry tomato + olivetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together24 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Tomato + cherry tomatotop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,263 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, olive, pepper, egg, milk):

Lemonfits better
Cherryfits better
Avocadofits better
Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, olive, pepper, egg, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Cherry	1 cup (138g)	87
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Roasted Tomato and Goat Cheese Omelet