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Bell Peppers Stuffed with Crab

A chilled stuffed bell pepper filled with crab meat and mayonnaise, served on lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,580 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Bell Peppers Stuffed with Crab

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peppers

  1. Cut a slice from the stem end of each bell pepper and remove the seeds.

  2. Soak the peppers in cold water.

Stuff and serve

  1. Mix the shredded crab meat with mayonnaise dressing and season to taste.

  2. Stuff the peppers with the crab mixture.

  3. Chill the stuffed peppers on ice until ready to serve.

  4. Serve each pepper on a crisp leaf of lettuce.

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. Olive + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,037 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

  4. Crab + lettucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together111 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Pepper + crabtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together922 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Crab
Provides the main filling, adding sweet flavour and a tender, flaky texture.
Mayonnaise dressing
Binds the crab meat together and keeps the filling moist and creamy.
Bell peppers
Act as the edible vessel that holds the filling and adds crisp, fresh bite.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, crab, 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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