Bean sprout + Chili pepper
Bean sprout and chili pepper are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.45) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "East and Southeast Asian stir-fry staples" 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 bean sprout and chili 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 withEast and Southeast Asian stir-fry staples
- Cooks withSoutheast Asian wok aromatics
- BlendedEast Asian savory pantry staples
- BlendedEast Asian chili peppers and aromatics
- BlendedEast-Asian pungent vegetables and aromatics
- BlendedSoutheast & East Asian aromatics and mushrooms
- BlendedEast Asian vegetables and mushrooms
- BlendedEast and Southeast Asian noodles and condiments