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Tofu Dengaku

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Bonito and tofu 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

Makes 10 servings

Ingredients

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

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By epicurious. 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. Bonito + tofutop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together13 recipes

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

  2. Miso + tofutop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Kombu + tofutop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sake + misotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Miso + kombutop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the yuzu

The recipe marks yuzu as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sake, miso, sugar, shiso, kombu, seaweed, bonito):

  1. Yuzuthe original
  2. Limeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Avocadoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against sake, miso, sugar, shiso, kombu, seaweed, bonito. 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).