Banana blossom + Sambal oelek

Banana blossom and sambal oelek are weakly related — neither commonly paired in recipes nor close in aroma chemistry. They can be combined creatively, but there's no strong evidence the pairing is established. Both sit inside the "South Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry" mode.

Pairing scores

Cooks withmoderate signal

0.28

Tastes likemoderate signal

0.33

Blendedstrong signal

0.67

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.

Good additions to this pair

Ingredients that go well with both banana blossom and sambal oelek — candidates for completing the dish.

Vietnamese coriander0.33 Fried tofu puff0.29 Rice noodle0.28 Fish sauce0.27 Lemongrass0.26 Tamarind0.26 Peanut sauce0.26 Bone marrow0.25

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.

Shared flavor modes

Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.

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