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Wild Seaweed Salad Recipe

Toasted wild nori alongside cilantro, tofu, and plenty of wild rice. The dressing for this salad isn't shy - assertive notes of sesame, ginger, cayenne pepper and soy sauce work their way into the wild rice and tofu. Lots of flavor.

By 101cookbooks · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Wild Seaweed Salad Recipe

Why it works: Lemon and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Wild Seaweed Salad Recipe

Serves 10-12.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

642Calories
18 gProtein
35 gFat
71 gCarbs

Counts 14 of 16 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 14 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Wild Rice1 cup cooked (164g)166
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Tofu100g firm76
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Cilantro1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g)1
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Seaweednot 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.

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. Lemon + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Tofu + gingertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Tofu + ricetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together220 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Ginger + ricetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,196 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Honey + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

Swap the seaweed

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tofu, lemon, ginger, honey, rice, vinegar, sauce):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Welsh onionfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Seaweedthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tofu, lemon, ginger, honey, rice, vinegar, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.