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Miso Butter Shrimp Recipe

When shrimp goes on sale, I always snag a bag or two of frozen shrimp. There's no use getting the defrosted shrimp behind the glass partition, that shrimp was just the same frozen shrimp, but defro...

By steamykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Miso and shrimp work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 16 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook5 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, soy, shellfish (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. In a small bowl, whisk the miso paste with the mirin and sake until smooth, using the miso paste rather than the Miso & Easy.

  2. Pat the shrimp dry with paper towels and set them aside.

  3. Melt the 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat.

  4. Add the shrimp in a single layer and cook for about 1 to 2 minutes per side, until pink and opaque and the thickest part reaches 145°F (63°C).

  5. Reduce the heat to medium-low and pour the miso mixture into the skillet with the shrimp.

  6. Stir gently for about 1 minute, until the sauce is glossy and coats the shrimp.

  7. Remove from the heat and serve the shrimp right away with the pan sauce spooned over.

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. Miso + shrimptop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Miso + saketop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Butter + shrimptop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,733 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Butter + saketop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Butter + misotop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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