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Green Pepper and Cheese Salad

A salad of green peppers stuffed with cottage cheese, served chilled with lettuce and dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lettuce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,037 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Green Pepper and Cheese Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the green peppers.

  2. Cut around the stem of each pepper to remove the seeds and white sections.

  3. Stuff the peppers with cottage cheese, pressing it in firmly.

  4. Chill the stuffed peppers.

Serve

  1. When ready to serve, cut the peppers into quarter-inch slices.

  2. Place 2 or 3 slices in a nest of tender lettuce.

  3. Serve with salad dressing.

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. Pepper + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,037 recipes

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

  2. Cottage cheese + lettucetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Pepper + cottage cheesetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together393 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Green peppers
Provide the crisp, edible shell that holds the filling and forms the salad's main body.
Cottage cheese
Supplies the creamy, mild filling that contrasts with the crisp pepper.
Tender lettuce
Adds a soft, cool bed that supports the slices and adds fresh texture.

The step that matters

Pressing the cottage cheese in firmly. Packing the filling tightly removes air pockets so the slices hold their shape when cut. Chilling afterward firms the cheese further, helping clean, even slices.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, cottage cheese):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, cottage cheese. 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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