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Slow Cooker Turkey Cheeseburger Chili

"This yummy chili will warm you on the coldest of days! Small Kids and my husband love it! Try this hearty chili topped with sour cream, green onions, or Cheese-Its®."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and tomato share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 90 recipes mention both. Both carry trans-2-decenal, which smells waxy, orange. The science ↓

The recipe

10 servings
Prep20 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Turkey + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  2. Sauce + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Onion + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together20,622 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,243 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Kidney beans + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together821 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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 (turkey, onion, tomato, sauce, ketchup, mustard, sugar):

  1. Beansbetter flavor fit
  2. Chestnutbetter flavor fit
  3. Sesamebetter flavor fit
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, onion, tomato, sauce, ketchup, mustard, sugar. 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).