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Easy Pizza Sauce III

This no-cook pizza sauce tastes just like the best takeout.

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Why it works: Tomato and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,468 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

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2 3/4 cups (4 pizzas)
Prep5 min

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Tomato + saucetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together5,468 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Tomato + oreganotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,767 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Tomato + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Oregano + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,756 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Sauce + garlictop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together4,986 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, sauce, oregano):

  1. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  2. Basilbetter flavor fit
  3. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, sauce, oregano. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).