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Spicy Miso Soup with Bok Choy Wontons Recipe

Though this recipe requires a number of steps, each one's a cinch. Star anise and cloves perfume the broth, bok choy brings a welcome bite of green, spicy Sriracha...

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Why it works: Garlic and miso work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 128 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

The recipe

4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

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

Directions

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By chow. 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. Garlic + misotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together128 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,030 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Clove + star anisetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together184 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Ginger + star anisetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together229 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, ginger, star anise, chicken, shallot, garlic, sauce):

  1. Cuminbetter flavor fit
  2. Corianderbetter flavor fit
  3. Thymebetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, ginger, star anise, chicken, shallot, garlic, sauce. 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).