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Pork Tofu with Watercress and Bean Sprouts

"Tofu and watercress are a great, flavorful combination, and a wholesome one, too! My teenage boys who don't like greens actually love this dish. Red chile garlic paste can be substituted for the ground black pepper."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Pork Tofu with Watercress and Bean Sprouts

Why it works: Ginger and tofu work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 284 recipes. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Pork Tofu with Watercress and Bean Sprouts

8 servings
Prep20 min
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

339Calories
37 gProtein
19 gFat
5 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Tofu100g firm76
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Watercress1 cup (34g)4
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Waternot in our table0
Beannot in our table0

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

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Ginger + tofutop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Ginger + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,800 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Watercress + tofutop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Pepper + watercresstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together983 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pork + tofutop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together75 recipes

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

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, sauce, pepper, watercress, tofu):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, sauce, pepper, watercress, tofu. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.