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Scandinavian Roast Turkey with Prune & Juniper Stuffing & Caramelised Apples

Adding lingonberry jam or redcurrant sauce to your Turkey cooking juices gives traditional gravy a touch of sweetness

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Turkey and apple share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and 75 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

The recipe

SERVES 8 with leftovers
Prep35 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By bbcgoodfood. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Turkey + appletop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together75 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Parsley + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, onion, butter, carrot, parsley, garlic, celery):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Limeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Orangethe original
  4. Avocadoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, onion, butter, carrot, parsley, garlic, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).