Name: Grilled Pizza with Fig, Prosciutto and Blue Cheese
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 6 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil, Divided, Or More As Needed; 8 whole Fresh Figs, Cut In Half; 1 pound Fresh Pizza Dough; 6 ounces, weight Blue Cheese; 3 ounces, weight Prosciutto, Cut Into Thin Strips; 2 ounces, weight Arugula Leaves; ½ teaspoons Fresh Ground Black Pepper, For Seasoning

Why it works: Fig and blue cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 15 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4

Prep10 min

Cook6 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

1 Tablespoon Olive Oil, Divided, Or More As Needed
8 whole Fresh Figs, Cut In Half
1 pound Fresh Pizza Dough
6 ounces, weight Blue Cheese
3 ounces, weight Prosciutto, Cut Into Thin Strips
2 ounces, weight Arugula Leaves
½ teaspoons Fresh Ground Black Pepper, For Seasoning

Directions

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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.

Fig + blue cheesetop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together15 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Prosciutto + arugulatop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together40 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Olive + blue cheesetop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together314 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).
Olive + figtop 6% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together190 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).
Fig + prosciuttotop 6% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together46 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the arugula

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, fig, blue cheese, prosciutto, pepper):

Tomatobetter flavor fit
Capsicumbetter flavor fit
Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
Arugulathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, fig, blue cheese, prosciutto, 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).

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