Anardana powder + Urad dal
Anardana powder and urad dal are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.31) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.37). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "South Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry" 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 anardana powder and urad dal — 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 withSouth Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry
- BlendedLatin American and Indian spiced savory staples
- BlendedMexican chiles and Latin-South Asian staples
- BlendedEast Asian pantry grains and botanicals
- BlendedAsian sweet soups and dessert staples
- Tastes likeSouth and Southeast Asian savory spices and pulses