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Turkey breast cutlets served over Caribbean rice with a cream sauce of wine, orange liqueur, and peppers.

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Why it works: Rice and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,994 recipes. Both carry trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Turkey

Ovenwarm oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice and turkey

  1. Prepare the rice and transfer it to a 13x9 baking pan.

  2. Add 1/4 cup of butter to the rice and stir until it melts.

  3. Place the rice in a warm oven.

  4. In a large skillet, melt the remaining 1/2 cup of butter.

  5. Add the turkey cutlets in batches and sauté just until browned.

  6. Season the cutlets with salt and pepper.

  7. Place the cutlets over the rice and return the pan to the warm oven.

Make the sauce

  1. Add the shallots to the skillet and cook until tender.

  2. Add the wine and 1/2 cup of Cointreau to the skillet.

  3. Simmer the mixture until it is reduced by 3/4.

  4. Add the bouillon cube and cream to the wine-Cointreau reduction.

  5. Cook over medium heat until the sauce is slightly thickened.

Add the peppers and serve

  1. Heat the oil in a separate skillet, add the pepper strips, and cook until almost tender.

  2. Add the remaining Cointreau to the cooked pepper strips and set aside.

  3. Arrange the pepper strips over the turkey and rice.

  4. Pour the cream sauce over everything.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

811Calories
39 gProtein
35 gFat
79 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

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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. Rice + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,994 recipes

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

  2. Orange + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,456 recipes

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

  3. Butter + white winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Shallot + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,659 recipes

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

  5. Rice + shallottop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together284 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey breast cutlets
Provides the main protein, which browns in butter for flavour before being set over the rice.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and browns the turkey and shallots for flavour.
Heavy cream
Adds richness and body, thickening the sauce gently when it is cooked down.
Dry white wine
Adds acidity and aroma, and reduces to concentrate flavour in the sauce.
Orange liqueur
Adds sweetness and orange aroma to the reduced wine sauce and peppers.
Zatarain caribbean rice
Forms the base starch that soaks up butter and the juices beneath the turkey.

The step that matters

Reducing the wine and Cointreau by 3/4. Reducing concentrates flavour and sugar while evaporating alcohol. Stopping early leaves the sauce thin and sharp, and over-reducing can make it syrupy or bitter before the cream goes in.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, butter, turkey, pepper, shallot, white wine, olive):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, butter, turkey, pepper, shallot, white wine, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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