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Peppers with Rice and Tomatos

A baked dish of peppers stuffed with a tomato sauce and rice mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,065 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Peppers with Rice and Tomatos

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Prepare the peppers for stuffing.

  2. Mix the rice with the tomato sauce until well blended.

Stuff and bake

  1. Fill the peppers with the rice mixture.

  2. Place the stuffed peppers in a vegetable dish.

  3. Cover and bake in the oven until heated through.

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 + ricetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,065 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sauce + ricetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,396 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Peppers
Provide the edible shell that holds the filling as it heats.
Rice
Forms the bulk and soft texture of the filling.
Tomato sauce
Adds moisture and acidity that flavour the rice as it cooks.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatothe original
  3. Mustardfits less well
  4. Carrotfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, sauce, rice. 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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