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Sesame Tuna with Soy Miso Dressing

"This recipe is served at a seafood restaurant in Royal Oak, Michigan. The sesame covered tuna is done medium rare inside (almost like sushi) and has a fantastic soy miso dressing drizzled over the top. One of the best seafood dishes I love!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Wasabi and miso work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 8 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

2 steaks
Prep20 min
Cook4 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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. Wasabi + misotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Sesame + misotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Sesame + wasabitop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Sesame + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Onion + misotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together182 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sesame, onion, wasabi, flour, egg, milk, miso):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  3. Celerybetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sesame, onion, wasabi, flour, egg, milk, miso. 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).