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Peppers, Stuffed

A dish of green peppers filled with a breadcrumb, onion, and butter mixture, baked until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Peppers, Stuffed

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. In a bowl, mix bread crumbs, coarse sea salt, black pepper, butter, and chopped onion.

  3. Moisten the mixture with meat gravy, strained tomato, or warm milk.

Stuff and bake

  1. Stuff the green peppers with the mixture.

  2. Place the stuffed peppers in a pan with enough water to cook them.

  3. Cover and bake for 40 minutes.

  4. Serve as a side dish.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  3. Bread + meattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  4. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Bread + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 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

Bread crumbs
Form the bulk of the filling and absorb moisture so it holds its shape.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the filling and helps it taste savory and tender.
Chopped onion
Adds aroma and savory flavor to the filling as it softens during baking.
Meat gravy, strained tomato, or warm milk
Moistens the crumbs so the filling is soft rather than dry.
Green peppers
Act as the edible shell that holds the filling and softens as it bakes.

The step that matters

Moisten the mixture. Bread crumbs need enough liquid to soften and bind; too little leaves the filling dry and crumbly, while too much makes it soggy and loose inside the peppers.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, pepper, butter, meat. 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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