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Curried Turkey Salad Recipe

A turkey salad recipe with toasty coconut bits, sweet raisins, and curried yogurt to dress up leftover Thanksgiving turkey.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Curried Turkey Salad Recipe

Why it works: Lemon and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Curried Turkey Salad Recipe

4 servings
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

696Calories
22 gProtein
42 gFat
66 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Shallot1 tbsp minced (10g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
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.

By chow. 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. Lemon + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

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

  2. Ginger + coconuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,168 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Lemon + shallottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Ginger + shallottop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

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

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, yogurt, olive, lemon, ginger, shallot, coconut):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, yogurt, olive, lemon, ginger, shallot, coconut. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.