Skip to main content

Spring Miso Soup

Miso soup is deliciously savoury and comforting. With a good quality stock, this dish takes only a few minutes.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Spring Miso Soup

Why it works: Miso and tofu share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 75 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Spring Miso Soup

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

Step-by-step directions aren't available for this recipe. See the full recipe at the source →

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

497Calories
18 gProtein
20 gFat
58 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
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Tofu100g firm76
Miso1 tbsp (18g)34
Asparagus6 spears (90g)27
Wine2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml)25
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
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 bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

Explore the science

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 + tofutop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Asparagus + misotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

  3. Asparagus + tofutop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Miso + saucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sauce + tofutop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together262 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the asparagus

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

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Asparagusthe original

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