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Eggplant Flatbread Pizza

Delicious, amazing, chewy flatbread topped with herb goat cheese, mozzarella, marinara and buttery eggplant. Yes!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Eggplant Flatbread Pizza

Why it works: Mozzarella cheese and goat cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Eggplant Flatbread Pizza

Serves 2
Prep20 min
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

342Calories
13 gProtein
28 gFat
10 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
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Goat Cheese1 oz (28g)103
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Eggplant1 cup cubed (82g)35
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. Mozzarella cheese + goat cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

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

  2. Eggplant + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together943 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Olive + mozzarella cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,773 recipes

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

  4. Olive + goat cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together573 recipes

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

  5. Eggplant + mozzarella cheesetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

Swap the eggplant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, sauce, mozzarella cheese, goat cheese):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Eggplantthe original
  4. Onionfits about as well

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