Name: Chicago Deep Dish Single Mushroom Pizza
Prep time: 7 min
Cook time: 18 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 1-½ teaspoon Olive Oil; 1 cup Pizza Sauce Your Choice; ½ cups Cooked Italian Sweet Sausage Crumbles; ½ cups White Button Mushrooms, Wiped Clean With A Damp Paper Towel; ½ cups Shredded Mozzarella Cheese; 3 Tablespoons Grated Parmesan; 6 ounces, weight Fresh Pizza Dough; 1 whole Small Egg, Beaten, For Egg Wash; ½ teaspoons Chopped Basil, For Garnish

Why it works: Olive and basil are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,063 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Chicago Deep Dish Single Mushroom Pizza

Serves 1

Prep7 min

Cook18 min

Ingredients

1-½ teaspoon Olive Oil
1 cup Pizza Sauce Your Choice
½ cups Cooked Italian Sweet Sausage Crumbles
½ cups White Button Mushrooms, Wiped Clean With A Damp Paper Towel
½ cups Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
3 Tablespoons Grated Parmesan
6 ounces, weight Fresh Pizza Dough
1 whole Small Egg, Beaten, For Egg Wash
½ teaspoons Chopped Basil, For Garnish

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

650Calories

52 gProtein

47 gFat

5 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

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pork	100g cooked	242
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Parmesan Cheese	1 oz (28g)	110
Mozzarella Cheese	1 oz (28g)	85
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Mushroom	1/2 cup sliced (35g)	15
Basil	5 leaves fresh (2.5g)	1
Pizza	not in our table	0
Sauce	not in our table	0

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.

Olive + basiltop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,063 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
Olive + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,571 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).
Olive + mozzarella cheesetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,773 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).
Mozzarella cheese + basiltop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,010 recipes

Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).
Mushroom + mozzarella cheesetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together439 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 basil

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

Capersfits better
Garlicfits about as well
Basilthe original
Oreganofits about as well

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

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