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Fancy Omelet

An omelet made with eggs, optional herbs, apples, or cooked asparagus or sorrel, served layered.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and asparagus work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 80 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Fancy Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. In a bowl, beat 3 or 4 eggs for each omelet.

Cook the omelets

  1. For the plain omelet, cook the eggs in a hot skillet until set.

  2. For the herb omelet, add chopped herbs to the eggs before cooking.

  3. For the apple omelet, add sliced apples to the eggs before cooking.

  4. For the asparagus or sorrel omelet, add cooked asparagus or sorrel to the eggs before cooking.

Serve

  1. Serve all omelets on the same dish, layering them with one lapping over the other.

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. Apple + asparagustop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together80 recipes

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

  2. Egg + asparagustop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Egg + appletop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,461 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

Eggs
Set into a tender structure that forms the body of each omelet.
Herbs
Add aroma and fresh flavor to the herb omelet.
Apples
Add sweetness and a fruity contrast to the apple omelet.
Asparagus or sorrel
Add vegetable flavor and texture to the omelet they are mixed into.

The step that matters

Cooking the plain omelet until set. Eggs turn firm as their proteins coagulate with heat. Cooking gently until just set keeps the omelet tender and moist, while overcooking makes it dry and rubbery.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, asparagus):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Pumpkinfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, asparagus. 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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