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Spicy Turkey Salad Wraps

"I was looking for an easy turkey salad recipe to go with the ingredients I had on hand, but couldn't find one I liked. So quite naturally, I came up with my own. These have just a touch of spice to them. I found them both, easy and good."

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Why it works: Turkey and cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 50 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

8 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. In a large bowl, combine the chopped cooked turkey, creamy salad dressing, drained diced tomatoes with green chile peppers, chopped jalapenos, minced onion, chili powder, and ground black pepper.

  2. Stir until the turkey is evenly coated and the seasonings are spread throughout the mixture.

  3. Cover the bowl and refrigerate the turkey salad for at least 15 minutes so the flavors blend. Keep it chilled until serving.

  4. Lay the flour tortillas flat on a clean work surface.

  5. Spoon a portion of the turkey salad across the center of each tortilla, leaving a border at the edges.

  6. Top the turkey salad on each tortilla with shredded Mexican cheese blend and shredded lettuce.

  7. Fold in the two sides of each tortilla, then roll it up tightly from the bottom to enclose the filling.

  8. Cut each wrap in half on a diagonal and serve right away.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Turkey + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Jalapeno + flourtop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together488 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Tomato + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,913 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,654 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together20,622 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

Flavor stand-ins for the jalapeno

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, tomato, pepper, onion, flour, cheese, lettuce):

  1. Celerybetter flavor fit
  2. Thymebetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Jalapenothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, tomato, pepper, onion, flour, cheese, lettuce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).