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Tomato Salad with Peppers

A salad of hollowed tomatoes filled with diced chicken, green peppers, and mayonnaise, served on lettuce and garnished with olives.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Tomato Salad with Peppers

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the tops off the tomatoes and remove the insides.

  2. In a bowl, mix the tomato insides with diced chicken, chopped green peppers, and mayonnaise.

  3. Fill the hollowed tomatoes with the mixture.

Serve

  1. Serve the filled tomatoes on a bed of lettuce and garnish with olives.

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.

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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.

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

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

  2. Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Tomato + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Hollowed out to act as edible cups holding the filling.
Diced cold chicken
Provides the protein and bulk of the filling.
Mayonnaise
Binds the filling and adds moisture and richness.
Green peppers
Adds crisp texture and fresh, slightly bitter flavor to the filling.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Eggplantfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, chicken, pepper, 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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