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Eggplant with Bacon Miso

Serve this rich, glazed eggplant with bacon miso as a starter, or with rice and a simply prepared piece of fish for a main course.

By bonappetit · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Eggplant with Bacon Miso

Why it works: Miso and eggplant share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Eggplant with Bacon Miso

4 Servings

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

506Calories
11 gProtein
18 gFat
69 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Eggplant1 cup cubed (82g)35
Miso1 tbsp (18g)34
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Soybeannot 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 bonappetit. 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. Miso + eggplanttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Miso + soybeantop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together16 recipes

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

  3. Soybean + rice winetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Soybean + eggplanttop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Miso + rice winetop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

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

Swap the eggplant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (miso, soybean, rice wine):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Eggplantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against miso, soybean, rice wine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.