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Turkey Polish Sausage and Peppers

"Red and yellow peppers are sauteed with mushrooms, zucchini, and turkey kielbasa for a great-tasting and colorful meal. This light and delicious recipe is my family's favorite! I hope it will be yours too!"

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Turkey Polish Sausage and Peppers

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Turkey Polish Sausage and Peppers

6 servings
Prep30 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

788Calories
73 gProtein
40 gFat
30 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Yellow Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Red Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Cucumber1/2 cup sliced (52g)16
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Toppingnot 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Mushroom + parmesan cheesetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,199 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Olive + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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 (olive, pepper, mushroom, garlic, turkey, vinegar, parmesan cheese):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pepper, mushroom, garlic, turkey, vinegar, parmesan cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.