Name: Olive and Blue Cheese Pizza
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 Batch Of Your Favorite Pizza Dough, To Be Hand Tossed To About 16 Inch Size; 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil; 1 clove Garlic, Minced; 1 cup Thinly Shaved Parmesan Cheese; 1 whole Jalapeno Pepper, Seeds Removed, Thinly Sliced; ½ cups Green Olives With Pimento, Sliced In Half; ½ cups Blue Cheese Crumbles; ½ cups Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

Why it works: Parmesan cheese and mozzarella cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,093 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Olive and Blue Cheese Pizza

Serves 4

Prep15 min

Cook25 min

Ingredients

1 Batch Of Your Favorite Pizza Dough, To Be Hand Tossed To About 16 Inch Size
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
1 clove Garlic, Minced
1 cup Thinly Shaved Parmesan Cheese
1 whole Jalapeno Pepper, Seeds Removed, Thinly Sliced
½ cups Green Olives With Pimento, Sliced In Half
½ cups Blue Cheese Crumbles
½ cups Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

430Calories

23 gProtein

36 gFat

5 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Parmesan Cheese	1 oz (28g)	110
Blue Cheese	1 oz (28g)	100
Mozzarella Cheese	1 oz (28g)	85
Chili	1 tsp (2.7g)	8
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Pizza	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Pimento	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.

Parmesan cheese + mozzarella cheesetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,093 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Blue cheese + mozzarella cheesetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together22 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Parmesan cheese + blue cheesetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together34 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together17,451 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, clove, garlic, parmesan cheese, pepper, blue cheese, mozzarella cheese):

Basilfits better
Oreganofits better
Rosemaryfits better
Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, clove, garlic, parmesan cheese, pepper, blue cheese, mozzarella cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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