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Quinoa Edamame Sushi Bowl

A delicious deconstructed sushi bowl packed with plant-based protein and lots of vegetables. This bowl is full of flavor as well as vitamins and minerals. The tahini wasabi dressing adds to the sushi flavor!

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Why it works: Tofu and wasabi work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and 5 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep30 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Tofu + wasabitop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Tofu + sesametop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together250 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Quinoa + avocadotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Avocado + wasabitop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Avocado + cucumbertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together299 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tofu, quinoa, sauce, sesame, avocado, onion, cucumber):

  1. Welsh onionbetter flavor fit
  2. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tofu, quinoa, sauce, sesame, avocado, onion, cucumber. 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).