Name: Clementine-Salted Turkey with Redeye Gravy
Yield: Makes 14-16 servings
Ingredients: 1/3 cup coarse kosher salt; 12 small clementines or tangerines (about); peel finely grated (3 tablespoons); fruit wrapped, chilled; 1 20-to 22-pound turkey, rinsed, patted dry; neck, heart, and gizzard reserved for; 2 large onions, quartered; 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 6 cups (or more) low-salt chicken broth, divided; 4 ounces country ham, Serrano ham, or thick-cut smoked bacon, cut into 1/4-inch dice; 6 tablespoons all purpose flour; 2 cups freshly brewed coffee

Why it works: Turkey and chicken work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 688 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-decenal, which smells green, must. The science ↓

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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.

Turkey + chickentop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together688 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).
Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,814 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together68,474 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Turkey + buttertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,592 recipes

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

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, onion, butter, pepper, chicken, ham, flour):

Lemonfits better
Avocadofits better
Coconutfits better
Tangerinethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, onion, butter, pepper, chicken, ham, flour. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Pork	100g cooked	242
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Bacon	1 slice cooked (8g)	43
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Clementine	not in our table	0
Tangerine	not in our table	0
Fruit	not in our table	0
Coffee	not in our table	0

Clementine-Salted Turkey with Redeye Gravy