Basil + Eggplant
Basil and eggplant 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 "Savory Mediterranean aromatics and vegetables" 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 basil and eggplant — 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 withSavory Mediterranean aromatics and vegetables
- Cooks withSavory aromatic vegetables and seasonings
- BlendedMediterranean savory vegetables and grains
- BlendedSavory peppers, herbs and legumes
- BlendedPungent Mediterranean vegetables and aromatics
- BlendedMediterranean savory vegetable stews
- Tastes likeEuropean savory braise ingredients
- Tastes likeLean proteins and savory vegetables