Black bean paste + Light soy sauce
Black bean paste and light soy sauce pair classically — they're cooked together often and share aroma chemistry, so the combination is both familiar and chemically coherent. Both sit inside the "East Asian umami pantry 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 black bean paste and light soy sauce — 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 Asian umami pantry staples
- Cooks withEast Asian savory pantry staples
- Cooks withEast Asian umami mushrooms and seafood
- Cooks withEast Asian fermented sauces and aromatics
- Cooks withEast Asian umami sauces and condiments
- BlendedEast Asian fermented sauces and processed staples
- BlendedEast Asian savory pantry staples
- BlendedEast Asian umami seafood and sauces