Perfect Pairings & Recipes for
Plum Sauce

Discover the best flavour pairings for plum sauce based on data analysis of thousands of recipes. Find perfect ingredient matches & delicious recipes.

Juicy aroma and caramel notes are at the forefront of plum sauce'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 cherry, fig, and hints of honey. 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 exploration reveals, for instance, how the piney, woody α-pinene in lemon juice can resonate with plum sauce, and how lime zest's aurantium notes forge a beautiful synergy with its juicy aroma.

An ingredient's flavour stems from its core characteristics, such as spice, sweet, or acidic, combined with layers of subtle flavour notes (outer bars). For a balanced dish, pair ingredients with a variety of core flavours, and choose complementary aroma notes for harmony.

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 Plum Notes

Our analysis reveals a strong connection between plum and neroli flavours. Since plum sauce has a distinct plum-like flavour, try pairing it with the orangey flavours of lime zest.

The recipe below provides inspiration for pairing plum sauce with lime zest.

Harmonious Flavours Of Plum Sauce

Just as our statistical analysis showed that plum and chalky flavours harmonise, we can identify the full profile of flavours that harmonise with each of the flavours present in plum sauce. For instance, the caramel flavours of plum sauce are strongly associated with cabbagy and rosemary accents.

The aroma notes complementing the various notes of plum sauce can be seen highlighted in the pink bars below.

Matching Flavour Profiles

The flavour profile of lemon juice offers many of the accents complementary to plum sauce, including cedar and grapefruit aroma notes. Because the flavour profile of lemon juice has many of the features that are complementary to plum sauce, they are likely to pair very well together.

The chart above shows the unique profile of lemon juice across 150 dimensions of flavour, while the recipes below offer inspiration for bringing these flavours together with plum sauce.

Recipes That Pair Plum Sauce With Lemon Juice

Linked Flavour Notes

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

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

What To Drink With Plum Sauce

The neroli notes in homemade lemonade make it a perfect pairing with plum sauce. Likewise, the cedar flavours in citrus vodka create a match made in heaven. Explore a variety of ingredients below that beautifully complement the unique character of plum sauce 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., Plum sauce), analyse its detailed flavour profile, and accurately reveal its complementary flavours and perfect ingredient partners.