Name: Stuffed Egos
Ingredients: hard boiled eggs; chicken or ham, chopped fine; seasoning (to taste); parsley (for garnish)

Why it works: Chicken and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,314 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Stuffed Egos

Ingredients

hard boiled eggs
chicken or ham, chopped fine
seasoning (to taste)
parsley (for garnish)

Directions

Prepare

Peel and cut hard boiled eggs in half.
Remove the yolks and mix them with chopped chicken or ham.
Season the mixture to taste.

Assemble and serve

Fill the egg cavities with the mixture and put the two halves together.
Garnish with parsley and serve.

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.

Chicken + parsleytop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,314 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Egg + parsleytop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,765 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Egg + chickentop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,991 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard boiled eggs: Provide the white shells and the yolks that form the base of the filling.
Chicken or ham: Adds savory flavor and body to the yolk filling.