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Easy Pizza Quesadillas

Flour tortilla shells stuffed with pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, and pepperoni slices will create an easy and delicious appetizer or dinner for the start of your weekend.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Easy Pizza Quesadillas

Why it works: Butter and mozzarella cheese work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 547 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Easy Pizza Quesadillas

Serves 1
Prep5 min
Cook8 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

782Calories
23 gProtein
22 gFat
120 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 6 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Pizzanot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0

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.

  1. Butter + mozzarella cheesetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together547 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sauce + mozzarella cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).

  5. Flour + saucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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