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Blue Cheese and Plum Pizza Grilled on the BBQ

This is a great summer time pizza when fruit is in season. You can make it with peaches or apricots or do a fruit medley.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Blue Cheese and Plum Pizza Grilled on the BBQ

Why it works: Blue cheese and cheddar cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 51 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Blue Cheese and Plum Pizza Grilled on the BBQ

Serves 3
Prep5 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

662Calories
21 gProtein
46 gFat
50 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Blue Cheese1 oz (28g)100
Corn1/2 cup kernels (82g)77
Peach1 medium (150g)59
Plum1 medium (66g)30
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 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.

  1. Blue cheese + cheddar cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Peach + plumtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

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

  3. Corn + coconuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Coconut + peachtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together53 recipes

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

  5. Corn + peachtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together94 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

Swap the coconut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, corn, blue cheese, peach, cheddar cheese, plum):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Coconutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, corn, blue cheese, peach, cheddar cheese, plum. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.