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Grilled Salmon with Japanese Seven-spice with Miso Broth

This is the kind of dish that makes you feel good in so many ways: udon noodles in a light miso broth with wakame seaweed and topped with griddled salmon.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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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 ↓

Grilled Salmon with Japanese Seven-spice with Miso Broth

Serves 4
Prep30 min
Cook30 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

371Calories
32 gProtein
19 gFat
17 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 9 ingredients. The other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Salmon100g cooked208
Tofu100g firm76
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Miso1 tbsp (18g)34
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Wakamenot in our table0
Seaweednot in our table0
Sunflower Oilnot in our table0
Coriandernot 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.

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

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Miso + wakametop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Tofu + wakametop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Tofu + sunflowertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Miso + sunflowertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

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

Swap the seaweed

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

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Seaweedthe original

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