Name: Levi Roots' Tenderstem, Cashew and Tofu Stir Fry Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 250 firm tofu, cut into 2cm dice; g red onion, roughly chopped; 1 garlic clove, finely sliced; 1 cm piece fresh root ginger, peeled and finely chopped; 5 hot red chilli (ideally Scotch Bonnet), deseeded and finely chopped; 0.25 limes, juice only; 2 soy sauce; 2 sunflower oil; tbsp pack of Tenderstem broccoli cut into 2cm diagonal slices; 1 cashew nuts; tbsp salt and pepper to taste; 200 fresh coriander leaves to garnish

Why it works: Clove and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

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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.

Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together6,038 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together29,058 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,621 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Lime + sunflowertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together200 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Garlic + gingertop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,402 recipes

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

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tofu, onion, garlic, ginger, lime, sauce, sunflower):

Cuminfits better
Turmericfits better
Corianderfits better
Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tofu, onion, garlic, ginger, lime, sauce, sunflower. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Tofu	100g firm	76
Broccoli	1 cup chopped (156g)	55
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Ginger	1 tsp grated fresh (2g)	2
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Scotch	not in our table	0
Sunflower Oil	not in our table	0
Cashew Nut	not in our table	0
Coriander	not in our table	0

Levi Roots' Tenderstem, Cashew and Tofu Stir Fry Recipe