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Chicken Soba Soup with Miso and Spinach

By biggirlssmallkitchen · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and miso work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 56 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients

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

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By biggirlssmallkitchen. 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. Chicken + misotop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together56 recipes

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

  2. Miso + spinachtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. White wine + vinegartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,123 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Ginger + misotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together120 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Chicken + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,493 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (canola oil, chicken, white wine, miso, sauce, rice wine, vinegar):

  1. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  2. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against canola oil, chicken, white wine, miso, sauce, rice wine, vinegar. 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).