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Zesty Tofu Cheesecake

Tofu is used to great effect in vegan cheesecakes, but here Aldo mixes it with coconut cream to make a light no-bake cheesecake.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Biscuit and agar share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Zesty Tofu Cheesecake

Serves 6
Prep2 hr

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

799Calories
16 gProtein
61 gFat
52 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Coconut1/2 cup shredded (40g)283
Biscuit1 medium (45g)166
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Cream Cheese1 oz (28g)99
Tofu100g firm76
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12

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

By bbcfood. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Biscuit + agartop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Tofu + coconuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together91 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Agar + coconuttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (biscuit, butter, agar, tofu, cream cheese, coconut, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against biscuit, butter, agar, tofu, cream cheese, coconut, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.