Name: Thai Pizza with Chicken or Tofu
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 pound Fresh Pizza Dough (some Grocery Stores Make And Sell It In Their Bakery, Or You May Get It From The Pizza Parlor); ½ cups Peanut Sauce; 2 cups Cooked Chicken, Sliced (rotisserie, Grilled Or Roasted Chicken), Or Sub 5 Oz. Grilled Tofu, Sliced For The 2 Cups Chicken; 1 cup Red Bell Pepper, Stem And Seeds Removed, Thinly Sliced; ½ cups Onion, Thinly Sliced; ½ cups Bamboo Shoots; 2 cups Mozzarella Cheese, Grated; ⅓ cups Cilantro, Leaves Only (optional); ¼ cups Roasted Peanuts, Chopped (optional)

Why it works: Peanut and chicken work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 541 recipes. Both carry 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine, which smells roasted, nutty. The science ↓

Thai Pizza with Chicken or Tofu

Serves 4

Prep15 min

Cook10 min

Ingredients

1 pound Fresh Pizza Dough (some Grocery Stores Make And Sell It In Their Bakery, Or You May Get It From The Pizza Parlor)
½ cups Peanut Sauce
2 cups Cooked Chicken, Sliced (rotisserie, Grilled Or Roasted Chicken), Or Sub 5 Oz. Grilled Tofu, Sliced For The 2 Cups Chicken
1 cup Red Bell Pepper, Stem And Seeds Removed, Thinly Sliced
½ cups Onion, Thinly Sliced
½ cups Bamboo Shoots
2 cups Mozzarella Cheese, Grated
⅓ cups Cilantro, Leaves Only (optional)
¼ cups Roasted Peanuts, Chopped (optional)

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

563Calories

55 gProtein

29 gFat

23 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 12 ingredients. The other 5 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
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Peanut	1 oz (28g)	161
Mozzarella Cheese	1 oz (28g)	85
Tofu	100g firm	76
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Cilantro	1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)	1
Pizza	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	0
Seed	not in our table	0
Bamboo Shoots	not in our table	0
Roasted Peanut	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.

Peanut + chickentop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together541 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-ethyl-3,6-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).
Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,814 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Peanut + oniontop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,043 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Peanut + bamboo shootstop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together10 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Onion + bamboo shootstop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together121 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Swap the peanut

The recipe marks peanut as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, chicken, pepper, onion, bamboo shoots, mozzarella cheese):

Sesamefits better
Beansfits better
Chestnutfits about as well
Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, chicken, pepper, onion, bamboo shoots, mozzarella cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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