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Turkey Taco Salad

"This is a low fat, low calorie ground turkey taco salad. If you have leftover cooked turkey on hand simply chop it up. You'll need about 3 cups."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Turkey Taco Salad

Why it works: Dill and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 976 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Turkey Taco Salad

12 servings
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

680Calories
58 gProtein
23 gFat
61 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 13 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Tortilla Chip1 medium flour (45g)140
Cheddar Cheese1 oz (28g)113
Kidney Bean1/2 cup canned (128g) drained112
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Iceberg Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Olive1 large (4g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Taconot in our table0
Saucenot 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. Dill + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

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

  2. Lettuce + dilltop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Lettuce + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,562 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the kidney beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, lettuce, onion, cheddar cheese, dill, olive, lemon):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Kidney beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, lettuce, onion, cheddar cheese, dill, olive, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.