Miso Ground Chicken with Rice and Scallions

Japanese niku miso is a simple mixture of ground meat cooked with miso, soy sauce and a few other basic ingredients from the Japanese pantry. Its savory-sweet flavor tends to be intense and concentrated, as niku miso is meant to be eaten with rice or noodles. This recipe is an adaptation of a couple versions we learned in Japan; we chose to use ground chicken to keep the dish on the lighter side, but pork works well, too. We prefer bolder, saltier red miso, but if you’ve only got white miso, it works, too. Serve on freshly cooked short-grain rice for a fast, easy dinner that requires almost no knifework.