Perfect Pairings & Recipes for
Chinese Cabbage

Exquisite Chinese cabbage flavour pairings and recipes, revealed through data science.

Pungent vegetal notes and leafy notes are at the forefront of Chinese cabbage's flavour profile, but identifying its perfect partner requires exploring its subtle nuances. We must examine the complex interplay of notes within its bouquet, like cucumber, sulfur, and hints of grass. We need to understand how these notes affect each other and which complementary flavors they harmonise with.

To chart these harmonies, we analysed thousands of ingredients, each deconstructed across 150 distinct flavour dimensions, pinpointing the notes that best complement this ingredient’s profile. Our analysis reveals, for example, how cannellini bean's fabian tones carry Chinese cabbage, and how parsnip's radicular notes create a surprising synergy with its pungent vegetal notes.

An ingredient's flavour comes from its core characteristics, like vegetal, herbal, and earthy, combined with its unique aroma notes (outer bars). When pairing ingredients, aim to include a broad variety of core characteristics for a balanced dish. And choose aroma notes that complement each other for a harmonious combination.

The Art of Flavour Pairing

To understand how flavour notes harmonise, we analysed more than 50,000 popular ingredient combinations. By exploring these pairings, we identified specific flavour notes that frequently occur together, indicating they share a harmonious relationship.

The Flavours That Harmonise With Brassica Notes

Our analysis shows that the flavour of cabbage is strongly associated with the flavour of parsnip. This suggests we should look for ingredients with a rooty flavour, such as parsnip, when pairing with the cabbagy notes of Chinese cabbage.

The recipe below provides inspiration for pairing Chinese cabbage with parsnip.

Harmonious Flavours Of Chinese Cabbage

Just as our analysis found that cabbage and rooty notes combine harmoniously, we can identify the full profile of flavours that harmonise with each of the flavours present in Chinese cabbage. For instance, the cucumber flavours of Chinese cabbage are strongly associated with pea-ish and beany notes.

The aroma notes associated with the various aromas of Chinese cabbage can be seen highlighted in the pink bars below.

Matching Flavour Profiles

The flavour profile of cannellini bean offers many of the aroma notes complementary to Chinese cabbage, including bean and starch aroma notes. Because the flavour profile of cannellini bean has many of the of the features that are complementary to Chinese cabbage, they are likely to pair very well together.

The chart above shows the unique profile of cannellini bean across 150 dimensions of flavour, while the recipes below offer inspiration for bringing these flavours together with Chinese cabbage.

Recipes That Pair Chinese Cabbage With Cannellini Bean

Linked Flavour Notes

Looking at the accents that are most strongly associated with the various flavours of Chinese cabbage, we can identify other ingredients that are likely to pair well.

The left side of the chart above highlights the aroma notes of Chinese cabbage, along with the complementary aromas associated with each note. While the right side shows some of the ingredients that share many of the accents complementary to Chinese cabbage.

What To Drink With Chinese Cabbage

The saline notes in pecorino make it a perfect pairing with chinese cabbage. Likewise, the saline flavours in cooking wine create a match made in heaven. Explore a variety of ingredients below that beautifully complement the unique character of chinese cabbage below.

How Flavonomics Works

We've pioneered a unique, data-driven approach to decode the intricate art of flavour pairing. Our goal is to move beyond intuition and uncover the science of why certain ingredients harmonise beautifully. This rigorous methodology allows us to provide you with insightful and reliable pairing recommendations.

Our analysis begins with over 50,000 carefully selected recipes from acclaimed chefs like Galton Blackiston, Marcello Tully, and Pierre Lambinon. This premium dataset ensures our model distils genuine culinary excellence and creativity.

Each ingredient from these recipes is deconstructed across 150 distinct flavour dimensions, creating a unique numerical "flavour fingerprint." This quantification allows us to apply advanced analytical methods to identify complex patterns between flavour notes.

We identify popular ingredient combinations that frequently appear in our recipe database. Regression analysis is then performed on these pairings to statistically validate and pinpoint truly harmonious flavours.

These insights drive our predictive model, which allows us to take any ingredient (e.g., Chinese cabbage), analyse its detailed flavour profile, and accurately reveal its complementary flavours and perfect ingredient partners.