Use This Table to See Which Flavors Go Well With Different Fruits.
You’re probably already familiar with classic fruit and flavor pairings like apples and cinnamon or cranberries and oranges. What about grapefruit and tarragon? Or peaches and maple syrup?
It’s easy to get into a flavor rut, but there’s an easy way out—at least when it comes to fruit: a chart that tells you which flavors and fruits go together. Here’s what you need to know.
How to use the fruit combination table
Leslie Chong, the professionally trained pastry chef who created The Baker’s Almanac , put together this handy chart that clearly shows which flavors pair best with various fruits.
If you enjoy baking, cooking, or making signature fruit smoothies, this is a page you’ll want to bookmark. (You can also download a neater PDF version if you subscribe to the site’s mailing list.)
Fruits are listed alphabetically in the column on the left, followed by columns with other fruits, herbs and spices, nuts, spirits, and additional miscellaneous foods (such as syrups, coffee, chocolate, honey, etc.) that make the best flavors. combinations. You can also use the search bar at the top right of the chart to search for a specific fruit or flavor.
If you can’t find the desired fruit or other ingredient in the table, just leave Jeon a comment below it and she will try to include it in the next update. (She adds new fruits and flavors regularly.)
The table is especially useful when you have a large amount of a particular type of fruit, whether you grow it yourself or buy a lot from your local farmers’ market or CSA.
For example, let’s say the trees in your backyard are producing an incredible crop of pears, and you’ve run out of ways to use them in salads and are tired of eating them on their own. While you’ve probably already paired pears with ginger, how about rosemary or basil? Or mascarpone and vanilla? Maybe pistachios and cardamom? Get ready to cook (and eat) a lot of desserts.