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Upside-Down Pizza Pot Pie

"Individual pot pies that taste like pizza! The recipe is great to follow as is, or get creative and add your own favorite toppings! A great dish for kids and adults! This can be accompanied with a salad."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Upside-Down Pizza Pot Pie

Why it works: Mushroom and mozzarella cheese work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 439 recipes. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

Upside-Down Pizza Pot Pie

4 pot pies
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

417Calories
38 gProtein
21 gFat
19 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
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
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. Mushroom + mozzarella cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together439 recipes

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

  2. Onion + mushroomtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,626 recipes

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

  3. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + mushroomtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,580 recipes

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

  5. Onion + mozzarella cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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