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Day-After-Thanksgiving Turkey Carcass Soup

"This easy and delicious turkey soup is made using leftovers from Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. I usually make cornbread muffins to serve with it."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Day-After-Thanksgiving Turkey Carcass Soup

Why it works: Celery and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Day-After-Thanksgiving Turkey Carcass Soup

10 servings
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr 25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

518Calories
42 gProtein
5 gFat
76 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Pea1/2 cup (72g)62
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Celery Stalks1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Stuffingnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Celery + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Celery + sagetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together723 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

Swap the sage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, celery, carrot, onion, chicken, garlic, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, celery, carrot, onion, chicken, garlic, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.