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Nigerian Peppered Turkey Wings

A spicy turkey wing dish simmered with onions, garlic, ginger, stock cube, thyme, and a bell pepper sauce.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Nigerian Peppered Turkey Wings

Oven200°C

Ingredients

Directions

Season the turkey

  1. Wash the turkey wings.

  2. Put the turkey wings in a pot with 1 onion, garlic, ginger, stock cube, and thyme. Cover with water and bring the mixture to a simmer. Cook until the water dries up.

Bake and make the sauce

  1. Bake in the oven at 200°C.

  2. Blend the bell pepper and remaining onion to get a smooth paste. Heat a small amount of vegetable oil in a pot. Add the pepper paste and simmer until thickened and losing its raw flavor. Season with salt.

Combine and serve

  1. Add the turkey wings to the sauce. Toss to coat.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

369Calories
34 gProtein
18 gFat
18 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Red Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Thyme1 tsp dried (1.4g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
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.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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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. Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Clove + thymetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,108 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Thyme + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Garlic + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,608 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey wings
Provide the main meat, which becomes tender and flavorful as it cooks.
Red bell peppers
Form the smooth, sweet-savoury base of the pepper sauce.
Vegetable oil
Carries flavour and helps the pepper paste fry and thicken in the pot.
Onions
Add savoury depth and body to both the seasoning and the pepper paste.

The step that matters

Simmering the pepper paste until thickened. Blended raw pepper tastes grassy and watery. Simmering in oil cooks off the moisture and mellows the raw flavour, so the sauce thickens and tastes rounded before the wings are added.

Swap the clove

The recipe marks clove as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, onion, garlic, ginger, thyme, pepper):

  1. Sagefits better
  2. Marjoramfits better
  3. Rosemaryfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, onion, garlic, ginger, thyme, pepper. 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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