Name: Mocheese-filled Tomales
Ingredients: 1 Basic Masa Dough recipe; 18 Corn husks or parchment-papersFILLING; 4oz Tofu, silken, mashed; 6oz Mochi cake, uncooked-grated; 4 tbsp Miso paste, white, yellow-or mellow; 4 tbsp Corn oil

Why it works: Tofu and miso share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 75 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Mocheese-filled Tomales

Ingredients

1 Basic Masa Dough recipe
18 Corn husks or parchment-papersFILLING
4oz Tofu, silken, mashed
6oz Mochi cake, uncooked-grated
4 tbsp Miso paste, white, yellow-or mellow
4 tbsp Corn oil

Directions

1 To make filling: mix filling ingredients until smooth.
2 Fill and cook tamales according to "tamales: basic procedure".
3 Per serving (2 tamales): 393 cal; 3 g prot; 411 md sod; 67 g carb; 10 g fat; 0 mg chol; 36 mg calcium

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

264Calories

16 gProtein

8 gFat

40 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Corn	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Corn Oil	1/2 cup kernels (82g)	77
Tofu	100g firm	76
Miso	1 tbsp (18g)	34
Cake	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

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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.

Tofu + misotop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together75 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Corn + tofutop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together69 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Corn + misotop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).