Skip to main content
Breakfast

Tofu Scramble I

A vegan breakfast dish made by scrambling tofu with onion, garlic, sun‑dried tomato, spinach, and spices, served with tortillas or bread.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 12 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Tofu Scramble I

Serves 2

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Heat about 1–2 tablespoons (15–30 g) oil in a saucepan.

  2. Add onion, garlic, and sun‑dried tomato to the pan, then cook until soft and golden.

  3. While that is cooking, mash tofu until it gets an even scrambled texture.

Cook and serve

  1. Add seasonings as specified or to taste, and mix it all in until evenly distributed.

  2. When the onion mix is cooked, add tofu and spinach.

  3. Heat through until spinach is soft and wilted.

  4. Serve with tortillas like a breakfast burrito or in bread like a breakfast sandwich.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

996Calories
29 gProtein
36 gFat
142 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Tortilla1 medium flour (45g)140
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Tofu100g firm76
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Olive1 large (4g)4
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)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 Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Garlic + spinachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,435 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Tofu
Soft tofu, mashed, forms the scrambled texture and provides the bulk and protein of the dish.
Onion
Softened and browned in oil, it adds sweetness and savory depth to the base.
Garlic
Cooked in oil, it contributes aroma and savory flavor.
Sun-dried tomato
Adds concentrated tomato flavor, sweetness and acidity to the mixture.
Spinach
Wilts into the mixture, adding moisture and a soft leafy texture.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, tofu, onion, garlic, tomato, spinach, pepper):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Oreganofits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, tofu, onion, garlic, tomato, spinach, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

You might also like

Rice GruelRice Gruel28 recipesPeptoned Milk GruelPeptoned Milk Gruel9 recipes