Name: Red Bell Peppers Stuffed with Cheese and Egg
Ingredients: 1 kg red bell peppers; 250 g brined sheep's cheese; 6 eggs; Sunflower oil; Salt; Parsley , finely chopped

Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Red Bell Peppers Stuffed with Cheese and Egg

Ingredients

Directions

Roast , peel, and seed the peppers.
Mix the crumbled cheese with 4 of the eggs. Stuff the peppers with this mixture.
Beat the remaining two eggs.
Roll the stuffed peppers in breadcrumbs and beaten eggs.
Fry the breaded peppers in hot oil.
Serve sprinkled with finely-chopped parsley.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

223Calories

14 gProtein

15 gFat

7 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Red Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Parsley	1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)	1
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Sunflower Oil	not in our table	0

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

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

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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.

Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34,122 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Sunflower + parsleytop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together256 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Pepper + sunflowertop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together568 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Pepper + cheesetop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,861 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Cheese + sunflowertop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together74 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the parsley

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

Dillfits about as well
Parsleythe original
Tarragonfits about as well
Thymefits about as well

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

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Red Bell Peppers Stuffed with Cheese and Egg