Name: Bruschetta with Rosemary, Roasted Plum Tomatoes, Ricotta and Prosciutto
Yield: Makes 6 servings
Ingredients: 6 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil; 2 large garlic cloves, minced; 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh rosemary; 1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 6 large plum tomatoes (about 1 1/2 pounds), quartered lengthwise; 12 1/2-inch-thick diagonally cut baguette slices (each 3 to 4 inches long); 12 tablespoons ricotta cheese, divided; 6 thin prosciutto slices, cut in half crosswise; 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice; 1 cup microgreens or baby arugula

Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

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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.

Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,539 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,665 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Olive + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,590 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together14,076 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Clove + rosemarytop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together519 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the plum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, garlic, clove, rosemary, pepper, tomato, ricotta cheese):

Lemonfits better
Limefits better
Avocadofits better
Plumthe original

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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Ricotta Cheese	1/2 cup (124g) part-skim	174
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Plum	1 medium (66g)	30
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Arugula	1 cup (20g)	5
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Rosemary	1 tsp dried (1.2g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Bruschetta with Rosemary, Roasted Plum Tomatoes, Ricotta and Prosciutto