Name: Quick Ricotta Cheese Pizza
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 2 cloves Garlic – Finely Chopped; ½ cups Ricotta Cheese - You May Use Cottage Cheese Or Queso; 1 teaspoon Rosemary, Fresh Or Dried; 1 whole Batch Of Pizza Dough (enough For A Medium-large Pizza), Store Bought Or Your Favorite Recipe; ¼ cups Mozzarella Cheese – You Can Use Sliced / Grated Or Whatever Is Handy; 2 whole Medium Size Tomatoes – Thinly Sliced; 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil; 1 teaspoon Salt As Per Taste

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 ↓

Quick Ricotta Cheese Pizza

Serves 2

Prep5 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

2 cloves Garlic – Finely Chopped
½ cups Ricotta Cheese - You May Use Cottage Cheese Or Queso
1 teaspoon Rosemary, Fresh Or Dried
1 whole Batch Of Pizza Dough (enough For A Medium-large Pizza), Store Bought Or Your Favorite Recipe
¼ cups Mozzarella Cheese – You Can Use Sliced / Grated Or Whatever Is Handy
2 whole Medium Size Tomatoes – Thinly Sliced
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
1 teaspoon Salt As Per Taste

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

506Calories

30 gProtein

34 gFat

17 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Ricotta Cheese	1/2 cup (124g) part-skim	174
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Cottage Cheese	1/2 cup (113g) 2%	98
Mozzarella Cheese	1 oz (28g)	85
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Rosemary	1 tsp dried (1.2g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Pizza	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. 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.

Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,539 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Rosemary + olivetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,590 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14,076 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Clove + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together519 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, ricotta cheese, rosemary, mozzarella cheese, tomato, olive):

Oreganofits better
Basilfits better
Thymefits better
Clovethe original

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

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