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Turkey Meatballs with Vegetable Sauce

"This quick and easy dish of meatballs in a creamy vegetable sauce tastes great over noodles or other pasta. This recipe of my grandmother's has been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. You may need extra bread to sop up the yummy sauce!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Turkey Meatballs with Vegetable Sauce

Why it works: Turkey and bread work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 822 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Turkey Meatballs with Vegetable Sauce

4 servings
Prep10 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

967Calories
58 gProtein
32 gFat
108 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Soupnot 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. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Turkey + eggtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together846 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Egg + evaporated milktop 36% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together649 recipes
  5. Bread + evaporated milktop 44% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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