Why it works: Egg and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 34% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 23,333 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓
Fried Onions with Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.
Boil the eggs until hard, about 10-12 minutes.
Slice the hard-boiled eggs and place them in a dish.
Pour the fried onions over the sliced eggs.
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.
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Egg + oniontop 34% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together23,333 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Egg and onion barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 23,333 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Eggs
- Provide the main body and protein-set structure, with a mild, rich flavour.
- Fried onions
- Add sweet, savoury flavour and aroma from their browning.
The step that matters
Boil the eggs until hard. Boiling too long can leave a grey-green ring around the yolk from a reaction between sulfur in the white and iron in the yolk. Boiling too briefly leaves the yolks soft, so the eggs will not slice neatly.
“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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