Skip to main content
Main

Indian Craipe Toast

A toast topped with a spiced egg and tomato mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Tomato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Indian Craipe Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, beat the eggs well.

  2. Add the chopped chili, pulped tomatoes, butter, cream, salt, and pepper.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a pan over medium-high heat and pour in the mixture.

  2. Stir until the mixture is set.

  3. Spread the mixture on buttered toast and serve.

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

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Tomato + buttertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,918 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

Eggs
Set into a soft, cohesive mass that forms the topping.
Ripe tomatoes
Add moisture, acidity and a fresh, tangy flavour to the eggs.
Cream
Adds richness and a softer, creamier texture to the cooked eggs.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and flavour in the eggs and on the toast.
Green chili
Adds heat and fresh aroma to the egg mixture.

The step that matters

Stir until the mixture is set. Eggs turn from liquid to firm as their proteins coagulate with heat. Cooking too long or on high heat makes them dry, rubbery and watery when tomato releases liquid, so stir gently and remove them while still moist.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, cream, pepper):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, cream, pepper. 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.

You might also like

Tomato SoupTomato Soup526 recipesCream of Tomato SoupCream of Tomato Soup107 recipesTomato BisqueTomato Bisque61 recipesCream Tomato SoupCream Tomato Soup28 recipes