Aleppo pepper + Pink pepper
Aleppo pepper and pink pepper are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.31) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.22). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean vinegars and piquant peppers" mode.
What do these scores mean?
Cooks-with (technical name: Cooc) measures how often the two ingredients appear in the same dish across 4M recipes. Tastes-like (Chem) measures how much aroma chemistry they share via FlavorDB. Blended (Core) combines both. All are cosine similarities in 300-D space — practical ranges differ per axis, so see the per-row context to read them.
Ingredients that go well with both aleppo pepper and pink pepper — candidates for completing the dish.
How this is ranked
Each candidate scores against both ingredients in the recipe co-occurrence embedding. We sort by the worse of the two scores, so the result fits the weaker partner — not just one of them.
Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.
- Cooks withMediterranean vinegars and piquant peppers
- Cooks withMediterranean vinegars and peppery aromatics
- Cooks withMediterranean savory herbs and peppers
- Cooks withDried and fresh New World chiles
- Cooks withLatin American chiles and dried peppers
- Cooks withHearty chiles and savory vegetables
- Cooks withPungent chiles and warm spices
- BlendedMediterranean vinegars and savory spices