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Tofu Dream Pudding and Pie Filling

"A simple sweet walnut/maple flavored pudding or pie filling that's fast and easy to make when you just want something that's good (remembering moderation in all things, including sugar). You could use any nut and change the flavor. Can be used with a graham crust pie shell; adorn with walnuts and serve with whipped cream. Triple recipe for pie filling."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Tofu Dream Pudding and Pie Filling

Why it works: Walnut and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,149 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Tofu Dream Pudding and Pie Filling

8 servings
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

215Calories
9 gProtein
8 gFat
32 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Tofu100g firm76
Maple Syrup1 tbsp (20ml)52
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12

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. Walnut + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Tofu + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29 recipes

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

  3. Walnut + maple syruptop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together309 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  4. Sugar + maple syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,252 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Tofu + lemontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together179 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tofu, sugar, walnut, maple syrup):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Pumpkinfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tofu, sugar, walnut, maple syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.