Why it works: Olive and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 30,263 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓
Stuffed Eggs
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the eggs
Hard boil the eggs and let them cool.
Cut the eggs in half and remove the yolks.
Make and fill
Mince the yolks finely and mix with chopped olives, minced veal or chicken, salad dressing, salt, and pepper.
Fill the egg halves with the yolk mixture.
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.
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Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together30,263 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together10,049 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Olive + vealtop 23% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together612 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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Egg + vealtop 28% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together6,845 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Egg + olivetop 31% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together15,340 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Eggs
- Provide the white shells that hold the filling and the yolks that form the base of the mixture.
- Chopped olives
- Add salty, briny flavor and a bit of contrast to the rich yolk filling.
- Minced veal or chicken
- Adds savory meatiness and body to the filling.
- Salad dressing
- Binds the minced yolks into a moist, spreadable filling and adds tang.
The step that matters
Mince the yolks finely and mix the filling. Finely minced yolks blend smoothly with the other ingredients and hold together when spooned into the whites. Coarse pieces can crumble or leave the filling uneven.
“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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