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Omelet with Vegetables

A quick omelet made with eggs and cooked vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Cauliflower and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 163 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Omelet with Vegetables

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the eggs in a bowl until well mixed.

  2. Heat a non-stick skillet over medium heat.

Cook the omelet

  1. Pour the eggs into the skillet and cook until the edges start to set.

  2. Add the cooked vegetables in the center of the omelet.

  3. Fold one side of the omelet over the vegetables.

Serve

  1. Slide the omelet onto a plate and serve hot, garnished with additional vegetables around it.

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. Cauliflower + asparagustop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Tomato + asparagustop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together313 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + cauliflowertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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

  5. Egg + cauliflowertop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together259 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into the structure of the omelet, holding the filling together as they cook.
Cooked vegetables
Add moisture, flavor and bulk to the filling inside the folded eggs.

The step that matters

Cooking the eggs until the edges just set. Eggs cooked over too high a heat or for too long turn tough and rubbery. Stopping while the edges are set but the centre is still slightly soft keeps the omelet tender, and the residual heat finishes the centre.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Broccolifits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cauliflower, 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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