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Spicy Chicken, Tomato & Pepper Pizza

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By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Spicy Chicken, Tomato & Pepper Pizza

Why it works: Pepper and cherry tomato work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18 recipes. Both carry butanol, which smells wine. The science ↓

Spicy Chicken, Tomato & Pepper Pizza

Serves 3
Prep5 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

404Calories
41 gProtein
11 gFat
36 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Cherry1 cup (138g)87
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Pizzanot in our table0
Seednot 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. Pepper + cherry tomatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: butanol (wine).

  2. Mozzarella cheese + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together600 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Chicken + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,958 recipes

    Shared aroma: piperonal (bitter, coconut).

  4. Chicken + cherry tomatotop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12 recipes

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

  5. Mozzarella cheese + peppertop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,534 recipes

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

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

Swap the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mozzarella cheese, chicken, pepper):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Grapefits better
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

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