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Seafood Miso Noodle Soup

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By steamykitchen · From Open Recipes · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and miso work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 182 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

  • If using Miso & Easy
  • If using regular Miso paste

Directions

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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. Onion + misotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together182 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Mushroom + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Rice + chickentop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,569 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Onion + chickentop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  5. Shrimp + scalloptop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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 (rice, mushroom, fish, shrimp, scallop, miso, chicken):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Asparagusabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, mushroom, fish, shrimp, scallop, miso, chicken. 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).