Name: Grilled Tofu and Tangerine Rolls with Spicy Peanut Sauce Recipe
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 8 rice paper rolls; 1 large carrot, peeled and grated coarsely; 10 cm segment of cucumber, sliced and cut into thin matchsticks; 1 fresh mint leaves, larger ones torn; handful firm tofu; 250 dark soy sauce; g large spring onion, cut into 7.5cm lengths and finely sliced lengthways; 3 tangerines, peeled and segments opened; tbsp peanut and tamarind chutney; 1 dark soy sauce; 2 lemon or lime juice; 5 creamed coconut

Why it works: Rice and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 734 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. 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.

Rice + cucumbertop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together734 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Cucumber + minttop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together884 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together21,601 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Rice + carrottop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,477 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Carrot + cucumbertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,215 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 tangerine

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, carrot, cucumber, mint, tofu, sauce, onion):

Avocadofits better
Limefits better
Coconutfits better
Tangerinethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, carrot, cucumber, mint, tofu, sauce, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Coconut	1/2 cup shredded (40g)	283
Rice	1 cup cooked (158g) white	206
Peanut	1 oz (28g)	161
Tofu	100g firm	76
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Carrot	1 medium (61g)	25
Cucumber	1/2 cup sliced (52g)	16
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Lime	juice of 1 lime (44ml)	11
Soy Sauce	1 tbsp (15ml)	9
Peppermint	not in our table	0
Tangerine	not in our table	0
Tamarind	not in our table	0

Grilled Tofu and Tangerine Rolls with Spicy Peanut Sauce Recipe