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Homemade Fig Preserves

Homemade Brown Turkey fig preserves.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Homemade Fig Preserves

Why it works: Fig and lime share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 49 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Homemade Fig Preserves

Serves 6
Prep25 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

364Calories
32 gProtein
15 gFat
26 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Fig1 medium (50g)37
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Waternot in our table0
Pectinnot 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. Fig + limetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together49 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Turkey + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  3. Fig + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,042 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Fig + sugartop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, fig, sugar, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Apricotfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, fig, sugar, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.