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Miso Sesame Salad Dressing

"A delicate and creamy Asian style miso salad dressing flavored with sesame tahini and lemon juice. Great over delicate greens or baby spinach for a delicious and easy salad!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Miso and tahini work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 19 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

1.5 cups
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Contains: soy, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Put the white miso and tahini in a bowl or blender jar.

  2. Add the warm water gradually while whisking or blending until the mixture is smooth and creamy.

  3. Add the chopped garlic and lemon juice and mix until fully combined.

  4. Taste and adjust the flavor. If the dressing is too thick, stir in a splash of water.

  5. Serve right away or store in a sealed jar in the refrigerator until needed.

By allrecipes. 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. Miso + tahinitop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Miso + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together128 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Garlic + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,862 recipes

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

  4. Tahini + garlictop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  5. Tahini + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together388 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (miso, tahini, garlic):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Pumpkinabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Limeabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against miso, tahini, garlic. 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).