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Valentine Pizza

"Make this pizza for your Valentine! The rosemary dough is made in a bread machine, and then made into three heart shaped pizzas."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Valentine Pizza

Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Valentine Pizza

3 medium pizzas
Prep30 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

705Calories
21 gProtein
22 gFat
105 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Rosemary1 tsp dried (1.2g)4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Waternot in our table0
Pizzanot in our table0
Saucenot 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. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,590 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Olive + mozzarella cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,773 recipes

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

  4. Mozzarella cheese + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,577 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Rosemary + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together805 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the rosemary

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, flour, olive, sauce, mozzarella cheese, tomato):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Rosemarythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, flour, olive, sauce, mozzarella cheese, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.