Perfect Pairings & Recipes for
Green Chilli

Analysing hundreds of thousands of recipes uncovers green chilli's optimal flavour pairings.

Fiery sensation and capsicum notes are at the forefront of green chilli'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 grass, resin, and hints of black pepper. 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 exploration reveals, for instance, how the pure, salty sodium chloride in salmon roe can ground green chilli, and how fenugreek's sotolon notes forge a beautiful synergy with its fiery sensation.

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

The Flavour Code

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 Capsaicin Notes

Our analysis shows that the flavour of chilli is strongly associated with the flavour of fenugreek. This suggests we should look for ingredients with a fenugreek flavour when pairing with the hot aromas of green chilli.

The recipes below provide inspiration for pairing green chilli with fenugreek.

Harmonious Flavours Of Green Chilli

Just as our analysis shows that chilli and fenugreek flavour notes are often combined, we can identify the full profile of flavours that harmonise with each of the flavour notes present in green chilli. E.g. the capsicum notes of green chilli are often used with corn-like and briney notes.

The aroma notes associated with the various aroma notes of green chilli can be seen highlighted in the pink bars below.

Matching Flavour Profiles

The flavour profile of salmon roe offers many of the aroma accents complementary to green chilli, including saline and glutamic aroma notes. Because the flavour profile of salmon roe has many of the of the features that are complementary to green chilli, they are likely to pair very well together.

The chart above shows the unique profile of salmon roe across 150 dimensions of flavour, while the recipes below offer inspiration for bringing these flavours together with green chilli.

Recipes That Pair Green Chilli With Salmon Roe

Linked Flavour Notes

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

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

What To Drink With Green Chilli

The fenugreek notes in savagnin make it a perfect pairing with green chilli. Likewise, the glutamic flavours in pecorino create a match made in heaven. Explore a variety of ingredients below that beautifully complement the unique character of green chilli below.

Which Fruit Go With Green Chilli?

Choose fruit that embrace its herbalness or awaken its fresh aroma. Lemon sole offers vibrant, clean counterpoints, its verdant freshness lifting the palate. Preserved lemon add a gentle, oniony brightness, while grape tomato introduces a sophisticated, anise-tinged elegance.

Alternatively, embrace fruit that harmonise with green chilli's spiciness. The addition of coconut, with its subtle cocaceous notes, can complement the ginger beautifully. Lime pickle bridges earthiness and citrus zest, while plantain lends a fresh nuttiness.

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