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Whole-Wheat Pizza with Broccoli Rabe and Turkey Sausage

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Whole-Wheat Pizza with Broccoli Rabe and Turkey Sausage

Why it works: Garlic and broccoli match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,072 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Whole-Wheat Pizza with Broccoli Rabe and Turkey Sausage

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

744Calories
54 gProtein
52 gFat
17 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sausage100g cooked301
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
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 williamssonoma. 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. Garlic + broccolitop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,072 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Olive + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,100 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Olive + broccolitop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

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

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

Swap the broccoli

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, wheat, turkey, garlic, pepper, mozzarella cheese):

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

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