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Sausage and Vegetable Calzones

"These delicious calzones are filled with Italian sausage, mushrooms, and red bell pepper strips in a creamy, cheesy sauce."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Sausage and Vegetable Calzones

Why it works: Mushroom and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,700 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Sausage and Vegetable Calzones

6 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

354Calories
36 gProtein
21 gFat
5 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Savorynot in our table0
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. Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Mushroom + mozzarella cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together439 recipes

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

  4. Mushroom + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Garlic + mozzarella cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,431 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the garlic

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

  1. Basilfits better
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Garlicthe original
  4. Oreganofits about as well

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