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Stuffed Mangoes or Bell Peppers

Stuffed mangoes filled with toasted bread, tomatoes, onions, olives, and oil, baked with water and served on lettuce with parsley butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Stuffed Mangoes or Bell Peppers

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Remove the seeds from the mangoes by cutting off the stem ends.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the toasted bread, tomatoes, onion, olives, salt, and oil.

  2. Stuff the mangoes with the filling.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the stuffed mangoes in a baking pan and add water to the bottom to prevent burning.

  2. Bake for 30 minutes.

  3. Serve on shredded lettuce, garnished with finely chopped parsley sautéed in butter.

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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  3. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Toasted bread
Forms the body of the filling and soaks up the juices from the tomatoes and oil.
Tomatoes
Add moisture and acidity that keep the filling soft and flavorful as it bakes.
Onion
Adds savory aroma and depth to the filling.
Olives
Contribute a salty, briny flavor that balances the sweetness of the mangoes.
Oil
Adds fat that carries flavor and keeps the filling moist.

The step that matters

Add water to the baking pan. Water in the bottom of the pan keeps the oven environment gentler and more humid, which helps the mango flesh and filling heat evenly and keeps the pan and surfaces from scorching.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Eggplantfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, tomato, olive. 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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