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Slow Cooker Turkey and Vegetables

"This is an easy way to use an inexpensive cut of turkey. It is a nice filling meal when served over egg noodles. It is really a meal where you can add whatever veggies you like."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Slow Cooker Turkey and Vegetables

Why it works: Parsnip and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,097 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Turkey and Vegetables

6 servings
Prep25 min
Cook8 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

368Calories
39 gProtein
5 gFat
46 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Artichoke1 medium (128g)60
Parsnip1/2 cup (78g)55
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Beannot 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. Parsnip + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Tomato + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

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

  3. Artichoke + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together154 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Artichoke + parsniptop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Parsnip + beanstop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together85 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the parsnip

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, pepper, tomato, artichoke, carrot, chicken, beans):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Parsnipthe original

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