Balyk + Khmeli suneli
Balyk and khmeli suneli are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.35) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.33). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean processed cheeses and cured meats" 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 balyk and khmeli suneli — 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 processed cheeses and cured meats
- Cooks withSavory-sweet pantry staples and fortified beverages
- BlendedProcessed condiments and Tex-Mex pantry staples
- BlendedCaucasian and Eastern European pantry staples
- Tastes likeProcessed deli meats cheeses and condiments
- Tastes likeSpicy seasoning blends and hearty sausages
- Tastes likeCaucasian and Eastern Mediterranean pantry staples