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Mashed Potato-Topped Turkey Pot Pie

"All the comfort of a pot pie topped with mashed potatoes. It's a great way to use up extra turkey or chicken."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Mashed Potato-Topped Turkey Pot Pie

Why it works: Turkey and chicken work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 688 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

Mashed Potato-Topped Turkey Pot Pie

1 9x13-inch pan
Prep20 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

497Calories
36 gProtein
23 gFat
37 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 8 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Pastrynot in our table0
Pie Crustnot in our table0
Soupnot in our table0
Waternot 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. Turkey + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together688 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,756 recipes

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

  3. Cream + potatotop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Turkey + potatotop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29 recipes

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

  5. Cream + chickentop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, cream, chicken):

  1. Potatothe original
  2. Onionfits about as well
  3. Leekfits less well
  4. Capsicumfits less well

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