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Goat Cheese, Caramelized Onion, Squash Pizza: Gourmet, Home Made Pizza! Recipe

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By chow · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Goat cheese and onion work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 291 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl butyrate, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings (2 slices each)

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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. Goat cheese + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together291 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  2. Goat cheese + parmesan cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together75 recipes

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

  3. Milk + wheattop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,416 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  4. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,158 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the acorn

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (goat cheese, parmesan cheese, milk, butter, pepper, flour, wheat):

  1. Walnutbetter flavor fit
  2. Beansbetter flavor fit
  3. Almondbetter flavor fit
  4. Acornthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against goat cheese, parmesan cheese, milk, butter, pepper, flour, wheat. 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).