Chili pepper + Fish sauce
Chili pepper and fish 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 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 chili pepper and fish 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 and Southeast Asian stir-fry staples
- Cooks withSoutheast Asian wok aromatics
- BlendedEast Asian savory pantry staples
- BlendedEast and Southeast Asian noodles and condiments
- Tastes likeSouth and Southeast Asian savory spices and pulses
- Tastes likeChinese wok cooking essentials
- Tastes likeEast-Asian noodle soup ingredients