Name: Mika’s Vegan Seaweed and Cucumber Salad Recipe
Yield: Serve 8
Ingredients: 4 cups cut wakame soaked for 10 minutes and then rinsed and drained; 2 cups julienned cucumber; 1 Tbsp gomasio for garnishing; 3 Tbsp wheat-free tamari; 4 Tbsp brown rice vinegar; 2 Tbsp cold pressed sesame oil; 4 tsp fresh lemon juice; 2 tsp freshly minced ginger; 3 tsp agave nectar

Why it works: Wakame and cucumber work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Serve 8

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, soy, sesame (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

4 cups cut wakame soaked for 10 minutes and then rinsed and drained
2 cups julienned cucumber
1 Tbsp gomasio for garnishing
3 Tbsp wheat-free tamari
4 Tbsp brown rice vinegar
2 Tbsp cold pressed sesame oil
4 tsp fresh lemon juice
2 tsp freshly minced ginger
3 tsp agave nectar

Directions

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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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Wakame + cucumbertop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together9 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Lemon + gingertop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together5,154 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Rice + sesametop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together643 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
Sesame + gingertop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together1,531 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Cucumber + ricetop 3% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together641 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wakame, cucumber, wheat, rice, vinegar, sesame, ginger):

Avocadobetter flavor fit
Limebetter flavor fit
Coconutabout as good a flavor fit
Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wakame, cucumber, wheat, rice, vinegar, sesame, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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