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Tofu Amaranth Salad

A good number of you were curious about the tofu and amaranth salad pictured next to those chive pancakes I posted a few weeks back. Here's the recipe. Thanks for your patience!

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Tofu Amaranth Salad

Why it works: Sunflower and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 194 recipes. Both carry beta-pinene, which smells pine, resin. The science ↓

Tofu Amaranth Salad

Serves 4.
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

672Calories
17 gProtein
54 gFat
42 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Avocado1 medium (150g)240
Tofu100g firm76
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Amaranthnot 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 101cookbooks. 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. Sunflower + coconuttop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together194 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-pinene (pine, resin).

  2. Sunflower + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together352 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Sunflower + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Coconut + amaranthtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Lemon + amaranthtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, sunflower, coconut, milk, lemon, lettuce, amaranth):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Cardamomfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, sunflower, coconut, milk, lemon, lettuce, amaranth. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.