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Stuffed Bell Peppers

A baked dish of bell peppers filled with a bread, chicken, tomato, corn, and olive mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 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 ↓

Stuffed 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. Cut off the stem ends of the peppers and save them.

  2. Remove all seeds, saving the seeds from 4 peppers.

  3. Moisten the diced bread with cold water.

  4. Mix the moistened bread with beaten eggs, butter, salt, and pepper.

  5. Chop the onions, parsley, and the saved seeds from the peppers.

Fill and bake

  1. Add the chopped chicken, tomatoes, and corn to the mixture and combine thoroughly.

  2. Stuff the peppers with the mixture and place 4 olives in each.

  3. Replace the tops of the peppers and tie them with twine.

  4. Place the stuffed peppers in a greased covered dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 1 hour or until well done.

  5. Serve hot.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

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

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

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Absorbs moisture and gives the stuffing a soft, binding body.
Eggs
Bind the stuffing together and set when baked, holding its shape.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, softening the stuffing's texture.
White meat from cooked chicken
Provides the main protein and substance of the filling.
Corn
Adds sweetness and a juicy texture to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Bake covered in a greased dish. Covering the dish traps steam so the peppers cook through and soften, while the grease prevents sticking. Baking for the full hour ensures the peppers become tender and the egg-bread filling sets.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, bread, egg, butter, parsley, meat, chicken):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, bread, egg, butter, parsley, meat, chicken. 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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