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Tomato Omelette

A quick tomato omelette with soda cracker crumbs and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,923 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Tomato Omelette

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tomato base

  1. Stew the chopped tomatoes for 10 minutes with onion juice, salt, pepper, and rolled cracker.

  2. Remove the tomatoes from heat and let cool slightly.

Make the omelette

  1. Beat the eggs very light, separating the yolks and whites.

  2. Stir in the yolks thoroughly.

  3. Gently fold in the egg whites.

  4. Pour the mixture into a hot frying pan with melted butter.

  5. Reduce the heat to low and cook until the omelette rises and is lightly browned on the bottom.

  6. Fold the omelette.

Serve

  1. Serve on a hot dish garnished with triangular pieces of toast.

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 + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whites trap air for lift and the yolks add richness and set the omelette.
Canned tomatoes
Provide moisture and acidity that give the omelette its flavour and filling.
Soda cracker
Its starch thickens the stewed tomatoes so they hold together in the omelette.
Butter
Adds fat for flavour and helps the bottom brown in the pan.

The step that matters

Folding the egg whites. Whites hold air only when whipped and folded gently; stirring or deflating them makes the omelette flat and dense instead of rising.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, pepper, egg, butter. 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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