Cream of rice + Refried beans
Cream of rice and refried beans 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 "Latin American chiles and dried peppers" 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 cream of rice and refried beans — 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 withLatin American chiles and dried peppers
- BlendedSavory peppers, herbs and legumes
- BlendedPungent Mediterranean vegetables and aromatics
- BlendedTex-Mex and deli staples
- BlendedMediterranean and Latin pantry specialties
- Tastes likeProcessed deli meats cheeses and condiments
- Tastes likePeppers beans and savory vegetables
- Tastes likeChiles peppers and hearty beans