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Avocado Salad in Tomatoes

A salad of mashed avocado, mayonnaise, and mustard stuffed into hollowed tomatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Avocado and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,385 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Avocado Salad in Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the avocado

  1. Press the avocados through a potato ricer or mash them until smooth.

  2. Mix the mashed avocado with mayonnaise and mustard.

Fill the tomatoes

  1. Cut the tops off the tomatoes and scoop out some of the insides.

  2. Fill the prepared tomatoes with the avocado mixture.

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. Avocado + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Avocado + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together234 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Mustard + tomatotop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,482 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

Avocados
Provide the creamy, rich base of the filling and its fat.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and moisture, keeping the avocado filling soft and spreadable.
Mustard
Adds sharp flavor and helps emulsify the mayonnaise into the avocado.
Tomatoes
Serve as juicy edible cups that hold the filling and add mild acidity.

The step that matters

Scoop the tomatoes with care. Keeping the tomato walls intact gives them enough strength to hold the filling. Scooping too deeply or too roughly can thin or tear the walls, so the filling leaks out.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Cucumberfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against avocado, tomato. 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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