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Miso-Marinated Grilled Chicken Breasts with Toasted Sesame

Salty, intensely flavored miso has a bold, almost meaty taste, with earthy, nutty nuances. In this recipe, miso teams up with mirin and sake to make a simple savory-sweet Japanese-influenced marinade for lean, mild chicken breasts.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Miso-Marinated Grilled Chicken Breasts with Toasted Sesame

Why it works: Miso and sesame work together. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 121 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Miso-Marinated Grilled Chicken Breasts with Toasted Sesame

Serves 4.

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

572Calories
34 gProtein
32 gFat
29 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Chicken100g cooked165
Sesame1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Sake1 oz (30ml)39
Miso1 tbsp (18g)34
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
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 williamssonoma. 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 + sesametop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Onion + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

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

  3. Ginger + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,531 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Canola oil + sesametop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together201 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Miso + saketop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together48 recipes

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

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 (ginger, miso, sake, sugar, chicken, canola oil, sesame):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, miso, sake, sugar, chicken, canola oil, sesame. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.