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Baked Stuffed Mangoes

Baked stuffed mangoes filled with a rice, tomato, and corn mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 933 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Baked Stuffed Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the mangoes

  1. Prepare the mangoes by cleaning them and soaking them in salt water.

  2. Cook the mangoes briefly until they are soft.

Make the filling

  1. In a pot, combine cooked rice, tomatoes, and corn.

  2. Season the mixture with salt, pepper, and butter.

Stuff and bake

  1. Stuff the softened mangoes with the rice mixture.

  2. Place the stuffed mangoes in the oven and bake until heated through.

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.

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. Rice + corntop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together933 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + corntop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,099 recipes

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

  3. Mango + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together225 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Mango + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together471 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Rice + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Mangoes
Form the edible shell that holds the filling and turn soft and sweet when cooked.
Cooked rice
Forms the bulk of the filling, giving it body and soaking up moisture.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and a mild acidity that brightens the filling.
Corn
Adds sweetness and a tender, juicy texture to the filling.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the filling taste full and savoury.

The step that matters

Cook the mangoes briefly until soft. Mangoes that are overcooked turn mushy and collapse, so they cannot hold the filling. Brief cooking softens the flesh while keeping its shape.

Swap the mango

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

  1. Avocadofits about as well
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Mangothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, tomato, corn, 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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