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Green Pepper Salad

A salad of halved bell peppers filled with a mixture of tomatoes, onions, pepper seeds, salt, and topped with mayonnaise dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Green Pepper Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the bell peppers in half and remove the seeds.

  2. Chop the tomatoes very finely.

  3. Add half the pepper seeds, a little chopped onion, and coarse sea salt to the tomatoes. Mix all the ingredients together.

Assemble and serve

  1. Fill the halved peppers with the mixture.

  2. Pour mayonnaise dressing over the filled peppers.

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. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 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

Bell peppers
Form the edible shell that holds the filling and adds crisp, fresh bulk.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and juicy body to the chopped filling.
Onions
Add sharp, pungent flavour that cuts through the richness of the dressing.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds fat and creaminess, coating the filling and softening its sharpness.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Eggplantfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, tomato. 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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