Name: Cold Noodles with Miso, Lime and Ginger
Ingredients: 8 ounces buckwheat noodles; A mixture of raw vegetables of your choice (such as carrots, cucumbers, radishes or daikon; see Note for more suggestions); 2 to 3 tablespoons miso (red is recommend; white would be just fine), 1 2-inch piece ginger, finely grated; 2 teaspoons granulated sugar; 1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne, or to taste; 2 tablespoons mirin; 1 tablespoon soy sauce; 2 tablespoons lime juice (from about 1 lime), plus lime wedges for serving

Cold Noodles with Miso, Lime and Ginger

Because we did not this past weekend , we ended up with a bit of free time which we used to do some overdue purging. I’m sorry if this shatters your misplaced imagine of me as some sort of domestic goddess, but my signature move is shoving something into a closet and slamming the door before anything falls out and then willfully ignoring its pleas for mercy — come on, you do it too, right? anyone? Sigh. And so we dug out, removing three giant trash bags of stuff we should have gotten rid of a while ago, two of clothes and one of (shh, please don’t tell on us) toys. Just 10 or 12 move before this apartment is Pinterest-ready! i.e. vast amounts of open space uncluttered by the existence of actual human .

By smittenkitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients

Why it works: Miso and lime work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and 42 recipes mention both. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

8 ounces buckwheat noodles
A mixture of raw vegetables of your choice (such as carrots, cucumbers, radishes or daikon; see Note for more suggestions)
2 to 3 tablespoons miso (red is recommend; white would be just fine), 1 2-inch piece ginger, finely grated
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne, or to taste
2 tablespoons mirin
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoons lime juice (from about 1 lime), plus lime wedges for serving

Directions

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By smittenkitchen. 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.

Miso + limetop 9% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together42 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together1,621 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Carrot + gingertop 2% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together1,377 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Carrot + limetop 4% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together645 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Buckwheat + gingertop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together46 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the buckwheat

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, miso, ginger, sugar, sauce, lime):

Corianderbetter flavor fit
Cuminbetter flavor fit
Celerybetter flavor fit
Buckwheatthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, miso, ginger, sugar, sauce, lime. 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).

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