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Tuna with Pink Grapefruit and Wasabi Potato Salad Recipe

A fresh, healthy dish matching wasabi potatoes with grapefruit and flash-fried tuna steak.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Sesame and grapefruit work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 7 recipes mention both. Both carry 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol, which smells smoky, clove. The science ↓

The recipe

4 people
Prep20 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By lovefood. 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. Sesame + grapefruittop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Sesame + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together144 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Potato + wasabitop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Potato + grapefruittop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together26 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the shiso

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sesame, potato, wasabi, grapefruit, sauce):

  1. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. Shisothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sesame, potato, wasabi, grapefruit, sauce. 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).