Why it works: Egg and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and 18,323 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-hexanol, which smells resin, flower. The science ↓
The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: egg (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Directions
Place 1 tablespoon of tomato fondue in a dish.
Break 2 eggs on top of the fondue and season with salt.
Cook until the eggs are done to your liking.
Add a little heap of tomato fondue at each end of the dish.
Garnish each heap with a pinch of chopped parsley.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Egg + parsleytop 11% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together18,323 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).
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Tomato + parsleytop 5% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together5,396 recipes
Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
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Tomato + eggtop 23% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together5,162 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
- Eggs
- Set into the dish to form the main body of the dish as they cook.
- Tomato fondue
- Provides a moist, savoury base under the eggs and adds acidity and sweetness.
The step that matters
Cook until the eggs are done to your liking. Eggs keep cooking from residual heat after leaving the pan, and the white and yolk set at different temperatures, so pulling them at the right moment keeps the yolk runny or fully set as you prefer.
Flavor stand-ins for the tomato
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, parsley):
- Carrotbetter flavor fit
- Shallotbetter flavor fit
- Chivebetter flavor fit
- Tomatothe original
Fit is the average pairing score against egg, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).
“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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