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Stuffed Onion and Eggplant

A dish of parboiled onions or eggplant stuffed with cheese and raw egg, then baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Stuffed Onion and Eggplant

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Parboil the onions or eggplant until tender.

  2. Cut out the centers of the onions or eggplant.

  3. Mix the scooped-out centers with cheese and raw egg.

  4. Stuff the mixture back into the onions or eggplant.

Bake

  1. Bake in the oven until golden brown.

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. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  2. Onion + eggplanttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together870 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Onion + cheesetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,849 recipes

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

  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

Eggplant
Forms the hollow shell that holds the filling and softens when parboiled.
Onions
Forms an alternative hollow shell that turns sweet and soft as it cooks.
Cheese
Adds richness and body to the filling and browns on the surface in the oven.
Raw egg
Binds the filling so it holds its shape when stuffed and baked.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps the surface brown.

The step that matters

Parboil until tender. If the shells are undercooked they stay firm and bitter, and the filling will not bake through evenly. Parboiling softens the vegetable enough to scoop and stuff without tearing, while leaving it intact to hold the filling during baking.

Swap the eggplant

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Eggplantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, cheese, 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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