Name: Greek Pita Pizzas
Prep time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: ½ cups English Cucumber, Diced; ½ cups Yellow Bell Pepper, Diced; ½ cups Cherry Tomatoes, Quartered; ¼ cups Red Onion, Diced; ¼ cups Kalamata Olives, Diced; ½ teaspoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil; 1-½ teaspoon Red Wine Vinegar; ¼ teaspoons Kosher Salt; ¼ teaspoons Dried Oregano; 4 whole Mini Pitas; ¼ cups Hummus, I Used Traditional Flavor; ¼ cups Feta Cheese Crumbles

Why it works: Olive and oregano match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,443 recipes. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

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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.

Olive + oreganotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,443 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Pepper + oreganotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,449 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Cucumber + olivetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together3,611 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).
Cucumber + oreganotop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together478 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Cucumber + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together6,050 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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 (cucumber, pepper, onion, olive, red wine, vinegar, oregano):

Limefits better
Avocadofits better
Plumfits better
Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, pepper, onion, olive, red wine, vinegar, oregano. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Feta Cheese	1 oz (28g) cheddar	113
Cherry	1 cup (138g)	87
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bell Pepper	1 medium (119g)	31
Hummus	1 tbsp (15g)	25
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Cucumber	1/2 cup sliced (52g)	16
Oregano	1 tsp dried (1.8g)	5
Olive	1 large (4g)	4
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

Greek Pita Pizzas