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Sweet Leftover Turkey Salad

"I use leftover turkey for this quick salad with all the right textures. The raisin sweetens the salad, the sunflowers add a crunch, and the turkey is the heart of the salad."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Sweet Leftover Turkey Salad

Why it works: Sunflower and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 352 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sweet Leftover Turkey Salad

12 servings
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

577Calories
44 gProtein
24 gFat
52 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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. Sunflower + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Sunflower + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together111 recipes

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

  3. Raisin + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Raisin + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,742 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, sunflower, apple, lemon):

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

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