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Sausage Cheeseburger Pizza

"Pizza dough topped with sausage, Cheddar cheese, dill pickles and onions makes a unique appetizer that combines the flavors of pizza and cheeseburgers."

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Sausage Cheeseburger Pizza

Why it works: Mozzarella cheese and cheddar cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 271 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Sausage Cheeseburger Pizza

10 appetizer servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

491Calories
42 gProtein
30 gFat
12 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Mustard1 tsp (5g) yellow3
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. Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together271 recipes

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

  2. Mustard + dilltop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together560 recipes

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

  3. Mustard + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + cheddar cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together708 recipes

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

  5. Onion + dilltop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,639 recipes

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

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

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mustard, mozzarella cheese, onion, cheddar cheese):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Capersfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Dillthe original

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