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Individual Greek Pita Pizzas

"A quick, easy, and flavorful Mediterranean-style pizza, made with pita bread and topped with a lemon dressing."

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Why it works: Pita bread and feta cheese work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 36 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

2 pizzas
Prep20 min
Cook10 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 a baking sheet.

  2. Whisk the lemon juice, olive oil, garlic powder, dried oregano and dried basil together in a small bowl.

  3. Brush the herb oil mixture evenly over both pita rounds, reaching the edges.

  4. Sprinkle the mozzarella cheese evenly over the pitas.

  5. Scatter the torn spinach, halved grape tomatoes and chopped pimento-stuffed green olives over the mozzarella.

  6. Crumble the feta cheese over the top of both pizzas.

  7. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes until the crusts are crisp and the cheese is melted and bubbling.

  8. Let the pizzas cool for 2 minutes, then cut each into wedges 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 + feta cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Oregano + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Lemon + basiltop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,820 recipes

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

  4. Olive + feta cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,438 recipes

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

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

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, garlic, oregano, basil, olive, pita bread, spinach):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  3. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, garlic, oregano, basil, olive, pita bread, spinach. 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).