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Fresco's Best Italian Cheese Sandwich

"Sandwiches made with fresh mozzarella and Pepperidge Farm® Garlic Texas Toast are given a crispy coating and pan-fried until golden. Serve with a mixed green salad with apricots, strawberries, and toasted walnuts with a strawberry vinaigrette. For dessert serve chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting."

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Fresco's Best Italian Cheese Sandwich

Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Fresco's Best Italian Cheese Sandwich

8 sandwiches
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

807Calories
28 gProtein
27 gFat
112 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Garden Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Mozzarella cheese + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,773 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, mozzarella cheese, flour, egg, bread, olive, tomato):

  1. Eggplantfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, mozzarella cheese, flour, egg, bread, olive, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.