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Tomato and Peanut Salad

A salad of tomato cups filled with cabbage and peanuts, dressed with French dressing and topped with mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 315 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Tomato and Peanut Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel the tomatoes and remove the centers to form cups.

  2. Mix the chopped cabbage and chopped peanuts together.

Assemble and serve

  1. Fill the tomato cups with the cabbage and peanut mixture.

  2. Add French dressing to the filled tomatoes.

  3. Top each tomato with a spoonful of mayonnaise before serving.

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. Tomato + peanuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together315 recipes

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

  2. Cabbage + peanuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together79 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + cabbagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together333 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

Tomatoes
Form the hollow cups that hold the filling and add juicy, acidic flavor.
Chopped peanuts
Add crunch and a rich, nutty flavor against the soft tomato.
Chopped cabbage
Adds crisp texture and bulk to the filling.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and creaminess that moistens the filling and softens the sharp tomato.

Swap the cabbage

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Eggplantfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, peanut. 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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