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Thanksgiving Leftover Wontons with Cranberry Salsa

"I made this the day after Christmas to use up the leftovers in my fridge and the in-laws LOVED it. It takes a bit of prep time, but it's quite easy. You may even want to try a little cilantro in the cranberry salsa."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Wonton wrapper and jalapeno share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

40 wontons
Prep30 min
Cook15 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. Wonton wrapper + jalapenotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Lemon + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,289 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Lime + jalapenotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Wonton wrapper + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together113 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Canola oil + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, cream cheese, wonton wrapper, canola oil, onion, lime, jalapeno):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Lemonthe original
  3. Coconutabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, cream cheese, wonton wrapper, canola oil, onion, lime, jalapeno. 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).