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Stuffed Tomato Salad

A salad of tomatoes hollowed and filled with a mixture of veal, olives, almonds, peas, and mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Stuffed Tomato Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Carefully remove the firm part of the tomatoes from the shells.

  2. In a bowl, mix the removed tomato flesh with veal, olives, almonds, green peas, and mayonnaise.

  3. Refill the tomato shells with the mixture.

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

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

  2. Olive + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,875 recipes

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

  3. Olive + peastop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,066 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-hex-3-en-1-ol (freshly cut grass green and herbaceous notes).

  4. Tomato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together391 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
Serve as hollow shells that hold the filling and supply fresh, acidic flavor.
Veal
Provides savory, meaty substance that gives the filling body and bite.
Mayonnaise
Binds the filling together and adds richness and moisture.
Green peas
Add sweetness and a soft, tender texture to the filling.
Almonds
Add crunch and a nutty flavor that contrasts the soft filling.
Olives
Add salty, briny flavor that balances the richness of the mayonnaise.

The step that matters

Carefully remove the firm part of the tomatoes from the shells.. Cutting too close to the skin can tear the shell, which then cannot hold the filling. Scooping gently keeps the tomato walls intact for refilling.

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, veal, olive, peas):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Lima beansfits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, veal, olive, peas. 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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