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Miso Chicken & Rice Soup

Ditch the noodles and try a healthy Japanese ramen with rice, flavoured with miso, soy, mirin and spring onions

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and miso work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and 46 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 2
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

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

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Pour the chicken stock into a medium saucepan and bring it to a gentle simmer over medium heat.

  2. Add the whole chicken breasts, halved carrots and long grain rice to the simmering stock. Cover and cook over low-medium heat for 12 minutes, until the rice and carrots are tender.

  3. Check that the thickest part of the chicken reaches 165°F (74°C). If not, simmer a few minutes longer, then lift the chicken onto a board.

  4. Shred the chicken with two forks.

  5. In a small bowl, mix the miso paste, soy sauce and mirin with a ladleful of the hot stock until smooth.

  6. Stir the miso mixture and shredded chicken back into the pan and warm through for 1 minute without a hard boil.

  7. Ladle the soup into bowls and scatter the sliced spring onions over the top.

By bbcgoodfood. 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. Rice + misotop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  2. Chicken + ricetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,569 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Chicken + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17,808 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Carrot + oniontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together21,599 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Rice + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,351 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the carrot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, rice, miso, sauce, onion):

  1. Potatobetter flavor fit
  2. Welsh onionbetter flavor fit
  3. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, rice, miso, sauce, onion. 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).