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Black Sesame Otsu Recipe

The Black Sesame Otsu recipe from Super Natural Every Day - soba noodles and tofu slathered in a thinned-out, salty-sweet black sesame paste, then topped with lots of sliced green onions.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Black Sesame Otsu Recipe

Why it works: Sunflower and sesame match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 172 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Black Sesame Otsu Recipe

Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

990Calories
24 gProtein
66 gFat
82 gCarbs

Counts 12 of 13 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 12 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Pine Nut1 oz (28g)191
Sunflower Seed1 oz (28g) hulled165
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Tofu100g firm76
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Black Sesame Seednot 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.

By 101cookbooks. 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. Sunflower + sesametop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Pine + sunflowertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Sesame + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together984 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Sunflower + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together263 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pine + sesametop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pine, sunflower, sesame, sugar, sauce, rice, vinegar):

  1. Cashew nutfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pine, sunflower, sesame, sugar, sauce, rice, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.