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Pesto Pita Pizza

"A vegetarian-friendly pizza that offers a surprisingly tasty twist. A great lunch, dinner, or appetizer."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and feta cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 828 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

The recipe

4 pizzas
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 425°F (220°C) and set two baking sheets aside.

  2. Place the pita rounds on the baking sheets and spread an even layer of pesto over each one, leaving a small border.

  3. Arrange the sliced tomatoes over the pesto on each pita.

  4. Scatter the crumbled feta cheese evenly over the tomatoes.

  5. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the edges are golden and the feta is softened and lightly browned.

  6. Remove from the oven, let cool for 2 minutes, then cut each pizza into wedges and serve warm.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Tomato + feta cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together828 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Pita bread + feta cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pita bread + tomatotop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together113 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pita bread, feta cheese):

  1. Cucumberbetter flavor fit
  2. Welsh onionabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Spinachabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pita bread, feta cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).