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Feta and Fire Roasted Tomato Focaccia Bread

Delicious homemade focaccia bread. It’s a beautiful presentation and is good enough for guests or giving away.

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Why it works: Bread and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,013 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 10
Prep1 hr
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. Let the dough sit covered at room temperature for about 60 minutes until soft and easy to stretch.

  2. Heat the oven to 425°F (218°C) and set a rimmed baking sheet inside to heat.

  3. Stir the olive oil and minced garlic together in a small bowl.

  4. Press the dough onto an oiled baking sheet into a rough rectangle, dimple it with your fingertips, and brush it with some of the garlic oil.

  5. Spread the drained fire roasted tomatoes over the dough and scatter the chopped sweet red peppers on top.

  6. Crumble the feta over the top and sprinkle with the shredded asiago cheese.

  7. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until the edges are golden and the cheese is bubbling.

  8. Scatter the chopped spinach and cilantro over the hot focaccia, drizzle with the remaining garlic oil, and cool 5 minutes before slicing.

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

  1. Bread + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

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

  3. Feta cheese + cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together113 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

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

  5. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the spinach

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

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Onionabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, olive, garlic, tomato, feta cheese, cheese, pepper. 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).