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Quick and Healthy Turkey Chili

"The star of this turkey chili recipe is plump, tender GOYA® Low Sodium Red Kidney Beans. Mix with quick-cooking ground turkey, tomato sauce, and smoky, GOYA® Chipotle Chiles in Adobo Sauce. In just 30 minutes, you'll have a mouthwatering pot of healthy, nourishing chili that tastes like it's been simmering for hours. Top with cheese, avocado, and cilantro for heaven in a bowl."

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Why it works: Pepper and turkey match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,637 recipes mention both. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

The recipe

4 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (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 olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add the chopped onion and green bell pepper and cook for 5 minutes, until softened.

  2. Stir in the minced garlic and cook for 1 minute until fragrant.

  3. Add the ground turkey and break it up with a spoon. Cook for 6 to 8 minutes until no pink remains and it reaches 165°F (74°C) in the thickest part.

  4. Stir in the ground cumin, adobo seasoning to taste, and the finely chopped chipotle chile. Cook for 1 minute.

  5. Add the drained kidney beans and tomato sauce and stir well. Bring to a gentle simmer.

  6. Reduce the heat to low, partly cover, and simmer for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally, until thickened.

  7. Taste and adjust the adobo seasoning if needed.

  8. Ladle the chili into bowls and top with the shredded Monterey Jack, chopped avocado, and cilantro.

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. Pepper + turkeytop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,637 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,164 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Cumin + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,272 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together14,075 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, pepper, onion, garlic, turkey, cumin, tomato):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Chickpeabetter flavor fit
  3. Peasbetter flavor fit
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pepper, onion, garlic, turkey, cumin, tomato. 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).