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Miso Ramen Recipe

Recipe with photos of ingredients for Japanese style Miso Ramen Noodle Soup Recipe.

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Why it works: Spinach and miso work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 34 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Bring a saucepan of water to a boil, lower in the eggs and cook for 7 minutes until the whites are fully set. Cool in cold water, peel and halve.

  2. Warm the broth in a large pot until steaming but not boiling. Take it off the heat and whisk in the dashi granules, soy sauce and miso paste until dissolved, then keep it warm over low heat.

  3. Add the bamboo shoots and corn kernels to the broth and simmer gently for 2 minutes.

  4. Cook the ramen noodles in a separate pot of boiling water until just tender, about 3 minutes. Drain and divide among four bowls.

  5. Blanch the bean sprouts in boiling water for 30 seconds and drain. Squeeze the spinach dry and warm it briefly in the hot water.

  6. Ladle the hot miso broth with bamboo shoots and corn over the noodles. Top with spinach, bean sprouts, egg halves and chopped green onion.

  7. Drizzle each bowl with chili oil if using, and serve right away.

By steamykitchen. 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.

  1. Spinach + misotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Corn + porktop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,068 recipes

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

  3. Pork + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18,199 recipes

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

  4. Miso + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together182 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Bamboo shoots + spinachtop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, bamboo shoots, corn, spinach, pork, sauce, miso):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Asparagusbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, bamboo shoots, corn, spinach, pork, sauce, miso. 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).