Perfect Pairings & Recipes for
Ginger Paste

Exquisite ginger paste flavour pairings and recipes, revealed through data science.

Spicy aroma and cedrine notes are at the forefront of ginger paste'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 camphor, sage, and hints of rosemary. We need to understand how these notes affect each other and which complementary flavors they harmonise with.

To map these harmonies, we analysed thousands of ingredients, breaking each one down across 150 flavour dimensions, identifying which notes complement and contrast. Our findings reveal, for instance, how lard's adipose tones can enrich ginger paste, or how raisin's beta-damascenone notes create an unexpectedly harmonious bridge with the spicy aroma.

An ingredient's flavour comes from its core characteristics, like spice, vegetal, and acidic, 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.

Flavour Pairing Method

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 Ginger Notes

Our analysis shows that the flavour of ginger is strongly associated with the flavour of raisin. This suggests we should look for ingredients with a raisin flavour when pairing with the ginger-like notes of ginger paste.

The recipe below provides inspiration for pairing ginger paste with raisin.

Harmonious Flavours Of Ginger Paste

Just as our analysis showed that ginger and raisin flavour notes are harmonious, we can identify the full profile of flavours that harmonise with each of the flavours present in ginger paste. For instance, the cedar notes of ginger paste are strongly associated with mustardy and asparagus flavours.

The aroma accents complementary to the various aromas of ginger paste can be seen highlighted in the pink bars below.

Matching Flavour Profiles

The flavour profile of lard offers many of the aromas complementary to ginger paste, including fatty and porcine aroma accents. Because the flavour profile of lard has many of the of the features that are complementary to ginger paste, they are likely to pair very well together.

The chart above shows the unique profile of lard across 150 dimensions of flavour, while the recipes below offer inspiration for bringing these flavours together with ginger paste.

Recipes That Pair Ginger Paste With Lard

Linked Flavour Notes

Looking at the notes that are most strongly associated with the various flavours of ginger paste, we can identify other ingredients that are likely to pair well.

The left side of the chart above highlights the aroma notes of ginger paste, 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 ginger paste.

What To Drink With Ginger Paste

The ovine notes in oat milk make it a perfect pairing with ginger paste. Likewise, the ovine flavours in pecorino create a match made in heaven. Explore a variety of ingredients below that beautifully complement the unique character of ginger paste below.

Which Vegetables Go With Ginger Paste?

Choose vegetables that resonate with its pungency or embrace its woody herbiness. Potato offers vibrant, clean counterpoints, its verdant freshness lifting the palate. Sweetcorn add a gentle, oniony brightness, while black olive introduces a sophisticated, anise-tinged elegance.

Alternatively, embrace vegetables that harmonise with ginger paste's woodiness. The addition of green bean, with its subtle sinapic notes, can complement the cedar beautifully. Iceberg lettuce bridges earthiness and citrus zest, while pea lends a sheepy meatiness.

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., Ginger paste), analyse its detailed flavour profile, and accurately reveal its complementary flavours and perfect ingredient partners.