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Tofu Hiyayakko

"This is one of the really traditional easy dishes in Japan. My dad likes it so much. We often eat this dish with the rice, miso soup, grilled fish and Japanese pickles in the morning."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Tofu and bonito work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 13 recipes mention both. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

The recipe

1 serving
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Contains: soy, fish, 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. In a small bowl, stir the dashi granules into the 1/2 teaspoon water until fully dissolved.

  2. Add the soy sauce and white sugar to the dashi liquid and stir until the sugar dissolves to make a dipping sauce.

  3. Gently spoon the silken tofu into a shallow serving dish, keeping the block as intact as possible, and chill until ready to serve.

  4. Top the chilled tofu with the grated ginger, sliced green onion, bonito shavings and toasted sesame seeds.

  5. Serve right away, with the dashi soy sauce spooned over the tofu or set alongside for dipping.

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. Tofu + bonitotop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Tofu + sesametop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together250 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Ginger + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Onion + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,192 recipes

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

  5. Tofu + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together284 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, sugar, tofu, ginger, bonito, fish, sesame):

  1. Welsh onionabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, sugar, tofu, ginger, bonito, fish, sesame. 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).