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Deep-Dish Cast Iron Pizza

"A buttery, thick, and chewy pizza dough that is baked in a cast iron skillet. Pizza never tasted so good! Toppings are substantial but not overwhelming where the dough won't cook. If you cook the sausage while the dough is proofing you'll be ready to assemble the pizza that much faster."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Deep-Dish Cast Iron Pizza

Why it works: Butter and mozzarella cheese work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 547 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Deep-Dish Cast Iron Pizza

1 12-inch pizza
Prep20 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1057Calories
47 gProtein
47 gFat
109 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 11 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Pork100g cooked242
Grapeseed Oil1 tbsp (14g)120
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Pizzanot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Butter + mozzarella cheesetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together547 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pork + mozzarella cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together608 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Garlic + porktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  5. Butter + porktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the garlic

The recipe marks garlic as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, flour, butter, pork, sauce, mozzarella cheese):

  1. Jalapenofits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Nutmegfits about as well
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, flour, butter, pork, sauce, mozzarella cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.