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Roaft Prawns Omelet

A quick omelet cooked with prawns, eggs, Italian cheese, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Roaft Prawns Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the shells and tails from the prawns.

  2. In a bowl, beat the eggs and season with salt and pepper.

Cook the omelet

  1. Melt butter in a pan over medium heat.

  2. Add the prawns and cook until pink.

  3. Pour the beaten eggs over the prawns and cook until set.

  4. Sprinkle with Italian cheese and fold the omelet in half 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.

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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. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

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

  4. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Egg + cheesetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,253 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 to form the body of the omelet as they cook.
Prawns
Provide the main filling and savoury flavour inside the omelet.
Italian cheese
Melts into the eggs, adding richness and savoury flavour.
Butter
Adds fat for flavour and helps prevent the eggs from sticking to the pan.

The step that matters

Cooking the eggs until just set. Eggs turn firm and rubbery when overcooked, because the proteins tighten too far and squeeze out moisture. Removing the pan from heat while the surface is still slightly moist keeps the omelet tender.

“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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