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Basic Miso Soup

A simple miso soup with wakame, onions, carrots, and miso, garnished with green onions.

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Why it works: Wakame and onion work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 12 recipes mention both. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

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

Also mentioned in the method: noodles

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rinse wakame; soak in cold water to cover for 5 minutes and dice, or if using flakes, add directly.

Simmer the soup

  1. Bring water to a boil. Add onions and wakame; simmer 3 minutes.

  2. Add the carrots and simmer 5 more minutes; reduce heat to very low.

  3. Add miso and simmer 2 minutes (do not boil after adding miso). Garnish with green onions.

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Explore the science

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. Wakame + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Wakame + misotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Onion + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21,599 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Onion + misotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together182 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Carrot + misotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Wakame seaweed
Adds a tender texture and a mild, briny sea flavour to the broth.
Mugi miso
Seasons the broth with salty, savoury depth and gives it its characteristic flavour.
Onions
Release sweetness as they simmer, softening the broth's flavour.
Carrots
Add natural sweetness and a firm, tender bite to the soup.

The step that matters

Add the miso at the end without boiling. Miso's flavour and live cultures are damaged by boiling, and it can turn bitter and lose aroma. Keeping the heat very low after adding it keeps the soup smooth and well flavoured.

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wakame, onion, miso):

  1. Welsh onionbetter flavor fit
  2. Chiveabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Cucumberabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wakame, onion, miso. 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).

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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