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Herbed Slow Cooker Turkey Breast

"A slow-cooked turkey breast that will melt in your mouth!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Herbed Slow Cooker Turkey Breast

Why it works: Parsley and basil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,351 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Herbed Slow Cooker Turkey Breast

6 servings
Prep10 min
Cook4 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

513Calories
35 gProtein
39 gFat
7 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Sage1 tsp ground (0.7g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Spreadnot 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. Parsley + basiltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,351 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Parsley + sagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,445 recipes

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

  3. Basil + sagetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together223 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Spread + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, butter, cream cheese, spread, sauce, parsley, sage):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, butter, cream cheese, spread, sauce, parsley, sage. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.