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Omelet Aux Fine Herbs

A lightly cooked egg omelet flavored with parsley, chives, shallot, and served with fine herbs sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chive and shallot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 450 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Omelet Aux Fine Herbs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, mix the eggs with the chopped parsley, chives, and shallot.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a non‑stick skillet over medium heat and add the egg mixture.

  2. Cook until the edges are set, then gently fold the omelet.

  3. Serve with the Fine Herbs Sauce on top.

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. Chive + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Parsley + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Shallot + saucetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,303 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + chivetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,624 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into the structure of the omelet as they cook, holding the herbs together.
Parsley
Adds fresh, green flavour and aroma to the eggs.
Chives
Add a mild onion-like aroma and fresh flavour to the eggs.
Shallot
Contributes a mild, sweet onion flavour that blends into the eggs.

The step that matters

Cook until the edges are set, then gently fold the omelet.. Eggs cook quickly over medium heat, so pulling the set edges in while the centre is still slightly moist keeps the omelet tender. Overcooking turns it firm and rubbery, and folding too roughly can tear it.

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, chive, shallot, sauce):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Parsleythe original
  4. Garlicfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, chive, shallot, sauce. 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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