Name: Shredded Kale Salad with Turkey Skin Cracklings
Yield: Makes 8 servings
Ingredients: Turkey skin from 2 to 3 pounds each of turkey thighs and drumsticks, frozen in as thin a mass as possible (see Cooks' Notes); 1 cup water; Salt; 1 pound kale, preferably lacinato (also called Tuscan or dinosaur kale); 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice; 1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard; 3 tablespoons olive oil; freshly ground black pepper

Why it works: Kale and mustard share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 98 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Shredded Kale Salad with Turkey Skin Cracklings

Makes 8 servings

Ingredients

Turkey skin from 2 to 3 pounds each of turkey thighs and drumsticks, frozen in as thin a mass as possible (see Cooks' Notes)
1 cup water
Salt
1 pound kale, preferably lacinato (also called Tuscan or dinosaur kale)
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
3 tablespoons olive oil
freshly ground black pepper

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

312Calories

33 gProtein

18 gFat

7 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Spinach	1 cup raw (30g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Mustard	1 tsp (5g) yellow	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By epicurious. 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.

Kale + mustardtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together98 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Kale + lemontop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together226 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Kale + olivetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together647 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,922 recipes

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

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

Swap the kale

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, lemon, mustard, olive, pepper):

Lettucefits better
Capsicumfits better
Spinachfits better
Kalethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, lemon, mustard, olive, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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