Curd + Sunflower oil
Curd and sunflower oil are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.48) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "South Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry" 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 curd and sunflower oil — 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 withSouth Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry
- Cooks withSouth Asian spiced dairy and aromatics
- Cooks withWhole grain and seed pantry staples
- BlendedLatin American and Indian spiced savory staples
- BlendedWoody aromatic spices and herbs
- Tastes likeSouth and Southeast Asian savory spices and pulses
- Tastes likeWoody aromatic spices and herbs
- Tastes likeBaking leaveners and sweet pastry ingredients