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Tempeh Mock Tuna Salad

"For vegetarians craving the taste and texture of tuna salad, this comes close."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Tempeh Mock Tuna Salad

Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Tempeh Mock Tuna Salad

4 cups
Prep30 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

361Calories
26 gProtein
15 gFat
36 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Tempeh100g160
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Red Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Seaweednot 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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Lemon + dilltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

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

  3. Celery + dilltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together382 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

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

  5. Clove + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

Swap the seaweed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, lemon, clove, garlic, onion, celery, dill):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Seaweedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, lemon, clove, garlic, onion, celery, dill. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.