Name: Healthy Whole-Grain Pizza Dough Recipe
Ingredients: 1 Cups Freshly ground Whole Wheat Flour; 1 Cups Freshly ground Spelt Flour; 2 TBsp. Vital Wheat Gluten Flour; 2 1/2 Tsp. Active-Dry Yeast; Water, as needed to make soft dough; 1 1/2 - 2 Tsp. Salt; 1 Good Pinch of Oregano; 1 Tsp. Cane Sugar

Why it works: Flour and spelt match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 115 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Healthy Whole-Grain Pizza Dough Recipe

Ingredients

1 Cups Freshly ground Whole Wheat Flour
1 Cups Freshly ground Spelt Flour
2 TBsp. Vital Wheat Gluten Flour
2 1/2 Tsp. Active-Dry Yeast
Water, as needed to make soft dough
1 1/2 - 2 Tsp. Salt
1 Good Pinch of Oregano
1 Tsp. Cane Sugar

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

509Calories

13 gProtein

1 gFat

109 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 7 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Oregano	1 tsp dried (1.8g)	5
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Spelt	not in our table	0
Wheat	not in our table	0
Water	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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Flour + spelttop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together115 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Wheat + spelttop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Wheat + oreganotop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together91 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Spelt + oreganotop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,373 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the oregano

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, flour, spelt, sugar):

Cinnamonfits better
Nutmegfits better
Capersfits better
Oreganothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, flour, spelt, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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