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Stuffed Peppers

Stuffed peppers filled with a mixture of cooked meat, mashed potatoes or cooked cereal, seasoned, baked with water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,305 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the tops and seeds from the green sweet peppers.

  2. Stuff the peppers with a mixture of equal parts chopped cooked meat and mashed potatoes or cooked cereal, seasoned well.

Bake

  1. Place the stuffed peppers in a baking dish.

  2. Add 1 cup of water to the dish.

  3. Bake until the peppers are tender.

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 + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  2. Meat + potatotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together786 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Pepper + meattop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,777 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

Green sweet peppers
Hold the filling and soften as they bake until tender.
Cooked meat
Supplies the savory, substantial body of the filling.
Mashed potatoes
Bind the filling and add moisture and a soft texture.
Cooked cereal
Adds bulk and absorbs moisture, helping the filling hold together.

The step that matters

Bake until the peppers are tender. Heat softens the pepper walls and warms the filling through. Stopping too early leaves the peppers firm and the filling cool in the center.

Swap the potato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits about as well
  3. Carrotfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, meat. 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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