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Miso-Roasted Asparagus

By biggirlssmallkitchen · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Asparagus and miso 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

Serves 4 to 6 as a side

Ingredients

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

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By biggirlssmallkitchen. 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. Asparagus + misotop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

  2. Miso + sesametop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Rice + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together643 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Asparagus + sesametop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together73 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Asparagus + ricetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together244 recipes

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

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