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Grilled Skirt Steak with Red Miso Recipe

Using miso paste in the marinade gives the meat a deep, savory flavor here, and also helps tenderize the steak. Spicy chile paste, mirin, and sake round out the...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Miso and garlic work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 128 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Grilled Skirt Steak with Red Miso Recipe

4 to 6 servings

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

495Calories
28 gProtein
30 gFat
20 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Beef100g cooked250
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Sake1 oz (30ml)39
Miso1 tbsp (18g)34
Garlic1 clove (3g)4

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Miso + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together128 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Miso + saketop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together48 recipes

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

  3. Garlic + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Miso + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together93 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + saketop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together92 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (miso, garlic, sake, sugar):

  1. Gingerfits better
  2. Corianderfits better
  3. Jalapenofits about as well
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against miso, garlic, sake, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.