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Healthy Turkey Meatball and Kale Soup

I made up this nutritious soup to help me get back into my skinny jeans after putting on some winter weight. Packed with vegetables (visible and hidden), it is good and good for you.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 19 ingredients
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Healthy Turkey Meatball and Kale Soup

Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Healthy Turkey Meatball and Kale Soup

Serves 10
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1132Calories
68 gProtein
47 gFat
115 gCarbs

Counts 17 of 20 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 17 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pasta1 cup cooked (140g)220
Chicken100g cooked165
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Parmesan Cheese1 oz (28g)110
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Kale1 cup chopped (67g)33
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Flaxseednot in our table0
Beannot in our table0
Leafnot 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 tastykitchen. 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. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Flaxseed + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together132 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Mushroom + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,571 recipes

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

  5. Sweet potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together950 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the flaxseed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sweet potato, mushroom, turkey, egg, garlic, pepper, olive):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Flaxseedthe original

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