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Breakfast Pizza From Pillsbury® Artisan Pizza Crust

"Wake up to a pizza topped with bacon, eggs and bell pepper that was meant for breakfast!"

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Why it works: Cream cheese and cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 479 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

6 servings
Prep30 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Heat the oven to 425°F (220°C). Unroll the Pillsbury artisan pizza crust onto a baking sheet or pizza pan and press it into an even round or rectangle.

  2. Cook the chopped bacon in a skillet over medium heat for about 6 minutes, until crisp. Transfer to paper towels to drain.

  3. Pour the beaten eggs into a skillet over medium-low heat and stir gently for about 3 minutes, until just set and no longer runny. Remove from heat.

  4. Scatter the cream cheese pieces over the crust, then spread the scrambled eggs and crisp bacon evenly on top.

  5. Sprinkle the Monterey Jack cheese with jalapeno peppers over the eggs, then scatter the sliced red bell pepper and thinly sliced red onion over the cheese.

  6. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until the crust is golden on the edges and the cheese has melted.

  7. Let the pizza rest for 2 minutes. Top with Old El Paso salsa and fresh chopped cilantro if desired, then slice and serve.

By allrecipes. 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. Cream cheese + cheesetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together479 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together68,463 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,838 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,861 recipes

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

  5. Cream cheese + jalapenotop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together191 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cream cheese, cheese, pepper, onion):

  1. Dillbetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Parsleybetter flavor fit
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cream cheese, cheese, pepper, onion. 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).