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Meatball Grinders with a Yummy Sauce

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Meatball Grinders with a Yummy Sauce

Why it works: Sauce and mozzarella cheese work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 804 recipes. Both carry decanoic acid, which smells soapy, waxy. The science ↓

Meatball Grinders with a Yummy Sauce

6 servings
Prep5 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

186Calories
7 gProtein
7 gFat
27 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 7 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pizzanot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Meatballnot 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. Sauce + mozzarella cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

  2. Apple + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,026 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Pepper + mozzarella cheesetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,534 recipes

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

  4. Apple + mozzarella cheesetop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12 recipes

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

  5. Sauce + peppertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,303 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Sauce and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,303 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the apple

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

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Applethe original

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