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Asian Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe

A twist on classic chicken noodle, with Asian spices, rice noodles, mushrooms, kale and bean sprouts.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Kale and miso share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Asian Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe

6-8 Cups of Soup

Ingredients

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

509Calories
45 gProtein
6 gFat
69 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Miso1 tbsp (18g)34
Mushrooms1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Oyster Mushroom1/2 cup sliced (35g)15
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Cumin1 tsp ground (2.1g)8
Spinach1 cup raw (30g)7
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Beannot 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 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. Kale + misotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Chicken + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,172 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-butyl acetate (fruity, banana).

  3. Mushroom + oyster mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together37 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Oyster mushroom + misotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Chicken + ricetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,769 recipes

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

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

Swap the kale

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

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Kalethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, rice, mushroom, oyster mushroom, onion, sauce, miso. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.