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Easy Turkey and Noodles Skillet

"Gotta love one-pan cooking! All the ingredients, including the noodles, cook in the same skillet to create creamy, ‘noodley' turkey goodness!"

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Why it works: Milk and potato chip work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and 15 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

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

  • Garnishes, If Desired

Directions

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

  1. Melt the butter in a large deep skillet over medium heat. Add the chopped onion and cook 3 to 4 minutes, stirring, until softened.

  2. Stir in the cooking sauce, milk and Italian seasoning. Bring to a gentle simmer.

  3. Add the uncooked egg noodles and stir so they sit in the liquid. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and cook 10 to 12 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the noodles are tender. Add a splash of water if the skillet gets too dry.

  4. Stir in the cubed cooked turkey and frozen sweet peas. Cook uncovered 3 to 5 minutes until the turkey is heated through to 165°F (74°C) and the peas are hot.

  5. Spoon into bowls and top with coarsely crushed sour cream and onion potato chips, if desired.

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. Milk + potato chiptop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Butter + milktop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

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

  4. Chicken + turkeytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together690 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).

  5. Garlic + chickentop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,839 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, onion, garlic, chicken, sauce, egg, milk):

  1. Peanutbetter flavor fit
  2. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  3. Beansabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, onion, garlic, chicken, sauce, egg, milk. 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).