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Vegan Tofu Fish Sticks Recipe

Kelp granules give these tofu sticks a hint of fishy flavor. They can be found in shaker containers at health food stores or online at www.veganessentials.com...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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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 ↓

Vegan Tofu Fish Sticks Recipe

4 servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

727Calories
24 gProtein
20 gFat
114 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Tofu100g firm76
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Almond1 almond (1.2g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Kelpnot 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 chow. 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Kelp + tofutop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11 recipes

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

  3. Dill + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,630 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Flour + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Garlic + peppertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

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

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, kelp, onion, garlic, dill, pepper, tofu):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Almondthe original

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