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Filfil Rumi Mahshi

Green peppers stuffed with a spiced rice and pine nut filling, simmered until tender and served cool.

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Why it works: Pine and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,062 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Filfil Rumi Mahshi

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peppers

  1. Choose medium-sized green peppers, wash them, and cut out the stems.

  2. Core the peppers with an apple-corer or paring knife.

Make the filling

  1. Lightly fry the pine nuts and chopped onions in olive oil.

  2. Add the washed rice and cook, stirring, for five minutes.

  3. Add the currants, salt, pepper and sugar.

  4. Pour in water to about twice the depth of the other ingredients in the pot and simmer until the water is absorbed.

  5. Add mint, allspice and lemon juice.

  6. When cool, stuff each pepper loosely, as the rice will swell.

Cook and serve

  1. Cover the open end of each pepper with a slice of tomato like a lid.

  2. Set the stuffed peppers in a single layer in a large pan or dish.

  3. Sprinkle with salt and sugar, drizzle with olive oil, and add 250 milliliters (1 cup) of water over them.

  4. Simmer very slowly until the peppers are just tender.

  5. Decorate with chopped parsley, lemon slices and tomato slices or wedges, and refrigerate.

  6. Serve cool.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

723Calories
12 gProtein
34 gFat
100 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 15 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Allspice1 tsp ground (1.9g)5
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Peppermintnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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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. Pine + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,062 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Olive + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,994 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  3. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

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

  4. Pine + ricetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together156 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Onion + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Long-grain rice
Absorbs liquid and swells to form the bulk of the filling.
Pine nuts
Toasting in oil adds nutty aroma and a crunchy contrast to the soft rice.
Onions
Softened in olive oil, they add sweetness and savory depth to the filling.
Olive oil
Carries flavor and adds richness, keeping the filling moist and the peppers tender.
Currants
Plump up during cooking and add sweetness that balances the lemon and spices.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the filling and balances its sweetness.

The step that matters

Stuffing the peppers loosely. Rice swells as it absorbs liquid during the slow simmer. Packing the peppers tightly can split their walls or leave the filling cooked unevenly, so leave room for expansion.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, pine, nuts, onion, olive, rice, sugar):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, pine, nuts, onion, olive, rice, 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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