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Chicken Alfredo Pita Pizza

"Something I put together after the inspiration of my daughter's 'Pita Pizza.' She liked this one a lot and wanted me to submit it! It's tasty so you might want to make more than one for yourself! This recipe makes about 4 pitas."

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Why it works: Pita bread and basil work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

4 small pizzas
Prep20 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Preheat the oven to 425°F (220°C) and set the pita rounds on two baking sheets.

  2. Warm a splash of olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add the sliced chicken and garlic salt and cook about 5 minutes, stirring, until the chicken reaches 165°F (74°C) in the thickest part. Set aside.

  3. Add a little more olive oil to the same skillet with the mushrooms and cook about 3 minutes until softened. Add the spinach and artichoke hearts and cook about 2 minutes until the spinach wilts. Remove from heat.

  4. Spread garlic hummus evenly over each pita round. Spread Alfredo sauce over the hummus, then dot each pita with basil pesto.

  5. Divide the chicken and the mushroom, spinach and artichoke mixture among the pitas. Top each with feta, mozzarella and Parmesan.

  6. Drizzle the pitas lightly with olive oil and bake 8 to 10 minutes, until the cheese melts and the edges turn golden.

  7. Let the pizzas rest 2 minutes, then cut and serve.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pita bread + basiltop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Spinach + artichoketop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together192 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Garlic + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanol (resin, flower).

  4. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Olive + basiltop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,868 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, chicken, garlic, pita bread, sauce, spinach, artichoke):

  1. Capersbetter flavor fit
  2. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  3. Jalapenoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, chicken, garlic, pita bread, sauce, spinach, artichoke. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).