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Grilled Zucchini Pizza with Goat Cheese

"This dish is quick, easy, and delicious! Directions are for charcoal grill, but gas grill or oven would work. If you use a smaller zucchini it can make a great appetizer!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Grilled Zucchini Pizza with Goat Cheese

Why it works: Goat 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 34 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Grilled Zucchini Pizza with Goat Cheese

2 servings
Prep30 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

394Calories
17 gProtein
29 gFat
20 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
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. Goat cheese + mozzarella cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Olive + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Olive + mozzarella cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,773 recipes

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

  5. Olive + goat cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together573 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 clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, sauce, onion, pepper, mushroom, goat cheese, mozzarella cheese):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, sauce, onion, pepper, mushroom, goat cheese, mozzarella cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.