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Apple and Ginger Salad with Tofu Recipe

A fresh and fragrant dressed salad made simply from tofu, lemon, dried figs, sweet chilli, ginger, and a little fresh parsley.

By lovefood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Apple and Ginger Salad with Tofu Recipe

4 people
Prep20 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

272Calories
10 gProtein
5 gFat
54 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 10 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Tofu100g firm76
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Dried Fig1 medium (50g)37
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Parsley1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Rapeseed Oilnot in our table0
Saucenot 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 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Apple + figtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together238 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

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

  4. Tofu + gingertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Apple + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,424 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, fig, tofu, ginger, sugar, sauce, parsley):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, fig, tofu, ginger, sugar, sauce, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.