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Stir Fry Turkey

"Great meal for after Thanksgiving to use up leftover turkey. Very simple meal. This was one of my favorites as a child. Serve over rice or chow mein noodles."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Stir Fry Turkey

Why it works: Chicken and mushroom are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,172 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-butyl acetate, which smells fruity, banana. The science ↓

Stir Fry Turkey

4 servings
Prep20 min
Cook10 min

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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. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  2. Broccoli + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,442 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Broccoli + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Carrot + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together21,601 recipes

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

  5. Turkey + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together688 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the broccoli

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, sugar, turkey, carrot, chicken, onion, mushroom):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Broccolithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, sugar, turkey, carrot, chicken, onion, mushroom. 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).