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Tomatoes with Cheese Stuffing

Tomatoes stuffed with bread crumbs, cheese, and seasonings, baked until tender.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Tomatoes with Cheese Stuffing

Serves 6
Ovenmoderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Select medium-sized tomatoes.

  2. Hollow out the centers, reserving the pulp.

Make and fill

  1. Mix the crumbs, cheese, salt, pepper, butter, and hot water with the pulp from the centers of the tomatoes.

  2. Fill the tomatoes with this stuffing.

  3. Place the stuffed tomatoes in a pan.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a moderate oven until the tomato can be pierced easily with a fork.

  2. Serve hot.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

698Calories
21 gProtein
22 gFat
102 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Tomato + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Act as the edible cups that hold the stuffing and soften as they bake.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture from the pulp and hot water, giving the stuffing body.
Cheese
Melts into the stuffing, adding richness and savoury flavour.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the stuffing brown lightly.

The step that matters

Bake until a fork pierces the tomato easily. Heat softens the tomato's cell walls, so a fork test shows when it is cooked through. Overbaking can split the skins and collapse the shells.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Tomatothe original
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Mustardfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cheese, pepper, butter. 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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