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Taco Pizza with Homemade Pizza Dough

Taco pizza! A homemade pizza dough piled with all your favorite taco toppings!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 17 ingredients
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Taco Pizza with Homemade Pizza Dough

Why it works: Mozzarella cheese and cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 421 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Taco Pizza with Homemade Pizza Dough

Serves 8
Prep1 hr
Cook12 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1076Calories
53 gProtein
45 gFat
110 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 14 ingredients. The other 6 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Saucenot in our table0
Beannot in our table0
Taconot in our table0
Pizzanot in our table0
Toppingnot 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 + cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together421 recipes

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

  2. Olive + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,470 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

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

  4. Flour + beanstop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,080 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Olive + cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,802 recipes

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

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

Swap the beans

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

  1. Beansthe original
  2. Sesamefits about as well
  3. Almondfits less well
  4. Peanutfits less well

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