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Three Cheese Spaghetti Pie

"It's a pie! It's spaghetti! It's pie-sgetti!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Three Cheese Spaghetti Pie

Why it works: Parmesan cheese and mozzarella cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,093 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Three Cheese Spaghetti Pie

1 pie

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

698Calories
60 gProtein
44 gFat
8 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Ricotta Cheese1/2 cup (124g) part-skim174
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Saucenot in our table0
Pienot 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. Parmesan cheese + mozzarella cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,093 recipes

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

  2. Ricotta cheese + mozzarella cheesetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together371 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  3. Parmesan cheese + ricotta cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together449 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Beef + mozzarella cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together397 recipes

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

  5. Beef + parsleytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,866 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the parsley

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, parmesan cheese, beef, sauce, ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese):

  1. Basilfits better
  2. Oreganofits better
  3. Garlicfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

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