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Artichoke Omelet

A simple omelet folded around cooked Jerusalem artichokes, seasoned with white sauce, salt, pepper, parsley, and lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Artichoke Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mix the cooked sliced Jerusalem artichokes with enough white sauce to moisten.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, chopped parsley, and lemon juice.

Fill the omelet

  1. Heat the mixture and place it in the center of a plain omelet.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Jerusalem artichoke + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Jerusalem artichoke + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Jerusalem artichokes
Provide the main bulk and a mild, nutty flavor for the filling.
White sauce
Adds moisture and creaminess so the filling does not dry out.
Plain omelet
Serves as the wrapper that holds the warm filling.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich sauce and artichokes.

Swap the jerusalem artichoke

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Jerusalem artichokethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, pepper, parsley, lemon. 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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