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Omelette with Tunny and Carp's Roes

A savory omelette flavored with tuna, herring roe, shallot, and parsley, finished with butter and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Shallot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,737 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Omelette with Tunny and Carp's Roes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the eggs, grated cheese, cream, salt, and pepper.

  2. In a pan, melt the butter and sauté the minced tuna, herring roes, shallot, and parsley for a few minutes.

  3. Stir the sautéed mixture into the egg mixture.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook the omelette in the same pan until just set, then transfer to a hot dish.

  2. Drizzle with melted butter and vinegar before serving.

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. Shallot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,737 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Salmon + roetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together176 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Pepper + shallottop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,898 recipes

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

  5. Egg + roetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together243 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set to form the structure of the omelette as they cook.
Cream
Adds richness and a softer, more tender texture to the eggs.
Grated cheese
Adds savoury flavour and helps the omelette brown lightly.
Herring roes
Provide the main rich, savoury flavour and a soft, creamy texture.
Preserved tunny
Adds a concentrated savoury, meaty flavour to the filling.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the omelette cook without sticking.

The step that matters

Cook the omelette until just set. Eggs turn firm and rubbery when overcooked, so removing the omelette while it is still slightly moist keeps it tender. Residual heat finishes the set after it leaves the pan.

Swap the shallot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cheese, cream, pepper, salmon, roe, parsley):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Shallotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cheese, cream, pepper, salmon, roe, parsley. 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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