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Roasted Asparagus with Poached Eggs and Miso Butter Recipe

This recipe was given to us by David Chang of Momofuku in New York City after we fell head over heels for it during a visit there. Like so many things Chang does...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Miso and asparagus work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 9 recipes mention both. Both carry acetoin, which smells butter, cream. The science ↓

The recipe

2 servings

Ingredients

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

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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. Miso + asparagustop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

  2. Vinegar + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together10,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Asparagus + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,027 recipes

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

  4. Sherry + vinegartop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together660 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  5. Butter + sherrytop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,505 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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