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Mushroom and Tofu Dashi Udon Soup

This dashi soup is the basis of all Japanese soups. Healthy, vegan, Okinawa-Diet-approved, and soul satisfying. Move over, chicken soup!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Mushroom and Tofu Dashi Udon Soup

Why it works: Kombu and tofu share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Mushroom and Tofu Dashi Udon Soup

Serves 5
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

321Calories
13 gProtein
5 gFat
50 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 10 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Tofu100g firm76
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Sriracha1 tsp (5g)5
Waternot in our table0
Kombunot in our table0
Katsuobushinot in our table0
Bonitonot in our table0
Soupnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. 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. Kombu + tofutop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Kombu + bonitotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Kombu + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Rice + tofutop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together220 recipes

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

  5. Fish sauce + srirachatop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

Swap the sriracha

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (kombu, bonito, sauce, fish sauce, rice, wine, tofu):

  1. Gingerfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Srirachathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against kombu, bonito, sauce, fish sauce, rice, wine, tofu. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.