Blue cheese + Mahi mahi
Blue cheese and mahi mahi are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.32) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.22). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Savory cheeses, cured meats and legumes" 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 blue cheese and mahi mahi — 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 cheeses, cured meats and legumes
- Cooks withMediterranean spiced savory ingredients
- Cooks withMediterranean savory vinaigrettes and pungent accents
- Cooks withMediterranean salad and composed dish ingredients
- BlendedSavory peppers cheeses and proteins
- BlendedSoutheast Asian savory pantry staples
- BlendedSouthern and Creole everyday cooking staples
- Tastes likeMediterranean cheeses and deli staples