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Spring Veggie Pizza Appetizer

"A medley of colorful spring veggies like sugar snap peas, cherry tomatoes, and radishes top a creamy 'sauce' on a golden dinner-roll crust for these tasty appetizer bites."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Spring Veggie Pizza Appetizer

Why it works: Dill and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,630 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Spring Veggie Pizza Appetizer

32 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

367Calories
8 gProtein
11 gFat
65 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4

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. Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

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

  2. Dill + radishtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Onion + radishtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together323 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetal (cream, earthy).

  4. Radish + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together382 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 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 cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, dill, onion, sugar, peas, radish, pepper):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, dill, onion, sugar, peas, radish, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.