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Miso Soup I

"I am a big fan of miso soup, and this one is fairly straight forward with ingredients that are easy to find. Plus, it tastes great. If you prefer, you can replace the spinach with bok choy."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Miso Soup I

Why it works: Tofu and miso share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 75 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Miso Soup I

3 to 4 servings
Prep5 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

354Calories
16 gProtein
7 gFat
62 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Barley1 cup cooked (157g)193
Tofu100g firm76
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Miso1 tbsp (18g)34
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Waternot 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 allrecipes. 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. Tofu + misotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Miso + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Barley + spinachtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Tofu + spinachtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Spinach + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tofu, miso, barley, spinach):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Kalefits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tofu, miso, barley, spinach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.