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Authentic Miso Soup

"Made with kombu, bonito flakes, and miso paste, Japanese miso soup is a simple and comforting."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Authentic Miso Soup

Why it works: Kombu and kelp share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Authentic Miso Soup

4 servings
Prep15 min
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

154Calories
11 gProtein
6 gFat
16 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 8 ingredients. The other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Tofu100g firm76
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Miso1 tbsp (18g)34
Waternot in our table0
Bonitonot in our table0
Kombunot in our table0
Kelpnot in our table0
Wakamenot 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 allrecipes. 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. Kombu + kelptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Tofu + misotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Kombu + wakametop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Wakame + misotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Kombu + tofutop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bonito, kombu, kelp, tofu, wakame, miso):

  1. Welsh onionfits better
  2. Cucumberfits about as well
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Chivefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bonito, kombu, kelp, tofu, wakame, miso. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.