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Butternut Ribbon Goat Cheese Pizza with Arugula-Pepita Pesto

Gourmet homemade pizza made with roasted butternut ribbons, homemade arugula-pepita pesto, goat cheese and a whole grain crust. You can make the pesto and the dough in your food processor, so this pizza is pretty easy to whip up! Recipe yields two pizzas.

By cookieandkate · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Arugula and goat cheese work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 65 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

The recipe

2 pizzas
Prep25 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By cookieandkate. 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.

  1. Arugula + goat cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together65 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Parmesan cheese + goat cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together75 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Garlic + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Olive + goat cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together557 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (arugula, parmesan cheese, garlic, lemon, olive, pepper, goat cheese):

  1. Limebetter flavor fit
  2. Cherrybetter flavor fit
  3. Orangebetter flavor fit
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against arugula, parmesan cheese, garlic, lemon, olive, pepper, goat cheese. 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).