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Fresh Pesto Pizza

"This is a basic vegetarian pizza that you can tweak to make your own special go-to dish. It's quick and easy and is the meal I plan for those busy nights when I can't spend much time in the kitchen."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Fresh Pesto Pizza

Why it works: Mozzarella cheese and feta cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 60 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Fresh Pesto Pizza

1 pizza
Prep15 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

227Calories
15 gProtein
16 gFat
7 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Feta Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Pizzanot 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. Mozzarella cheese + feta cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together60 recipes

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

  2. Wheat + spinachtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together149 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Spinach + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,350 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Wheat + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together468 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

  5. Tomato + mozzarella cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,577 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the spinach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, tomato, mozzarella cheese, feta cheese):

  1. Cucumberfits about as well
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Spinachthe original
  4. Eggplantfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, tomato, mozzarella cheese, feta cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.