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Four Cheese Baked Ziti

"This is a creamy, baked pasta dish with four cheeses - provolone, mozzarella, Swiss, and Parmesan. It is rich, and very filling. Serve with a green salad."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Four Cheese Baked Ziti

Why it works: Provolone cheese and mozzarella cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Four Cheese Baked Ziti

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

716Calories
46 gProtein
36 gFat
50 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Swiss Cheese1 oz (28g)108
Provolone Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Provolone cheese + mozzarella cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together92 recipes

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

  2. Mozzarella cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,093 recipes

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

  3. Provolone cheese + swiss cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together18 recipes

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

  4. Mozzarella cheese + swiss cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together20 recipes

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

  5. Provolone cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

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

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

Swap the basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, provolone cheese, mozzarella cheese, swiss cheese, parmesan cheese, egg, pasta):

  1. Basilthe original
  2. Oreganofits about as well
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Capersfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, provolone cheese, mozzarella cheese, swiss cheese, parmesan cheese, egg, pasta. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.