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Salad Rolls with Pumpkin and Tofu

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Why it works: Shallot and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 157 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Salad Rolls with Pumpkin and Tofu

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the tofu in a pan with oil, then add other ingredients and cook them.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

370Calories
16 gProtein
5 gFat
66 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 12 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Tofu100g firm76
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Carrot1 medium (61g)25
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Lettuce1 cup shredded (36g)5
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Pumpkinnot in our table0
Roasted Peanutnot 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.

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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. Shallot + lettucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Garlic + basiltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Shallot + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,000 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Carrot + basiltop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,113 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Carrot + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the pumpkin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tofu, shallot, garlic, carrot, sauce, lettuce, basil):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Pumpkinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tofu, shallot, garlic, carrot, sauce, lettuce, basil. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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