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Leftover Turkey Recipe: Chinese Congee

Use leftover turkey bones to make Chinese Turkey Congee (Rice Porridge or jook)

By steamykitchen · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Leftover Turkey Recipe: Chinese Congee

Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Leftover Turkey Recipe: Chinese Congee

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

629Calories
61 gProtein
18 gFat
53 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 9 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Waternot in our table0
Meatnot 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 steamykitchen. 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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Carrot + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,477 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Celery + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Shrimp + scalloptop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  5. Shrimp + meattop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together584 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, celery, shrimp, scallop, rice, meat, fish sauce):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, celery, shrimp, scallop, rice, meat, fish sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.