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Turkey Pot Pie II

"This recipe can be made in small individual size pie pans or in a large pie pan as well. This can also be prepared in advance and frozen once assembled and baked later."

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Turkey Pot Pie II

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 ↓

Turkey Pot Pie II

6 to 8 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

529Calories
41 gProtein
31 gFat
22 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 8 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Pastrynot in our table0
Pienot in our table0
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.

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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 + chickentop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together688 recipes

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

  2. Onion + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Turkey + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together281 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Chicken + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  5. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, cream, chicken, milk):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Tomatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, cream, chicken, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.