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Stuffed Green Peppers with Tomato Sauce

A dish of green peppers stuffed with pork, egg, and seasonings, simmered in tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,377 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stuffed Green Peppers with Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean and scoop out the green peppers.

  2. In a bowl, mix the ground pork with the egg, salt, and pepper.

  3. Stuff the mixture into the prepared peppers.

Cook

  1. Chop the onion and fry it in butter until soft.

  2. Add the stuffed peppers to the pan and cover, cooking until the peppers are tender.

  3. Chop the celery and add it along with the can of tomatoes to the pan, then stew everything together.

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. Celery + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

  5. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 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

Ground pork
Forms the savory filling that stays moist and firm as it cooks.
Egg
Binds the pork mixture so it holds together inside the peppers.
Green peppers
Act as the edible shell that softens while the filling cooks.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity to the stewing liquid in the pan.
Onion
Softens in butter to add sweetness and aroma to the base.

The step that matters

Stewing the peppers until tender. Cooking covered over gentle heat lets the pepper walls soften and the pork cook through without the sauce drying out or scorching.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, pork, egg, onion, butter, 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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