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Spanish Pizza with Chorizo and Manchego

Traditional Spanish ingredients inspired this pizza. Be sure to buy Spanish chorizo, a ready-to-eat cured sausage, rather than fresh Mexican chorizo. If you can’t find jarred piquillo peppers, substitute roasted red bell peppers. The recipe was created for the Kalamazoo pizza oven, which cooks thin-crust pizzas in about 3 minutes. If using a standard oven, place a pizza stone in the oven and preheat to 450°F. Bake the pizza on the preheated stone for 12 to 15 minutes.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Spanish Pizza with Chorizo and Manchego

Why it works: Tomato and olive 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 ↓

Spanish Pizza with Chorizo and Manchego

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

189Calories
9 gProtein
10 gFat
17 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
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
Pizzanot in our table0
Manchegonot 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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  2. Manchego + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  5. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, manchego, cheese, pepper, olive):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

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