Curry + Masoor dal
Curry and masoor dal are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.42) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. 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 curry and masoor dal — 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 withFiber-rich herbs legumes and spices
- BlendedProtein-dense legumes meats and spices
- BlendedLatin spices beans and tortillas
- BlendedSoutheast Asian savory pantry staples
- Tastes likeItalian cured meats and hearty cheeses
- Tastes likeHigh-fiber beans chiles and spices
- Tastes likeSoutheast Asian curry pastes and stir-fry staples