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Omelette Provencale

A tomato, garlic, and parsley omelette from Provençal cuisine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Omelette Provencale

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Peel the tomatoes, remove the seeds, and cut the flesh into pieces.

  2. Soak the tomato pieces in olive oil.

  3. Mince the garlic and add it to the tomatoes along with the parsley.

Cook the omelette

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl.

  2. Cook the omelette in a skillet.

  3. Add the soaked tomatoes to the omelette and cook until set.

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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Olive + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 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

Tomatoes
Provide moisture and a fresh, acidic flavor that contrasts with the rich eggs.
Garlic
Adds aroma and pungent flavor to the tomato filling.
Olive oil
Carries flavor from the tomatoes and garlic and adds richness.
Eggs
Set with heat to form the structure of the omelette.
Parsley
Adds fresh, herbal aroma and color.

The step that matters

Cook the omelette until set. Eggs turn from liquid to a firm structure as their proteins coagulate with heat. Overcooking makes them dry and rubbery, while undercooking leaves the centre runny and the filling loose.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, garlic, olive, egg, parsley):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Basilfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, garlic, olive, egg, 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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