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Spanish Omelette

A Spanish omelette made with eggs, milk, flour, and a sauce of onion, parsley, green pepper, mushrooms, ham, lamb's kidney, tomatoes, and consommé.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Spanish Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Beat the egg whites and yolks separately.

  2. Add salt, pepper, flour, and milk to the yolks and mix well.

  3. Pour the mixture into a buttered pan and cook until firm.

Make the sauce

  1. In another pan, heat butter or olive oil and fry the bay leaf, onion, parsley, green pepper, mushrooms, ham, and lamb's kidney until cooked.

  2. Add the tomatoes and consommé, and cook for 30 minutes.

Finish and serve

  1. Pour the sauce over the omelette before folding it onto a plate.

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

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

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Onion + parsleytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,843 recipes

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

  5. Onion + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 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
Whisked eggs set into the omelette's structure, giving it its body when cooked.
Flour
Thickens the egg mixture slightly, helping it hold together when cooked.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness to the eggs, keeping the omelette tender.
Onion
Softens and sweetens as it cooks, adding savoury depth to the filling and sauce.
Tomatoes
Break down into the sauce, adding moisture and gentle acidity.

The step that matters

Cook the egg mixture until firm. Cooking the egg mixture until it is just set, without overcooking, keeps the omelette tender and prevents it from becoming dry or rubbery before the sauce is added.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, pepper, flour, milk, butter, parsley, mushroom):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, flour, milk, butter, parsley, mushroom. 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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