Dashi + Mentsuyu
Dashi and mentsuyu 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 Asian umami pantry 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 dashi and mentsuyu — 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 Asian umami pantry staples
- Cooks withEast Asian savory pantry staples
- Cooks withJapanese umami seafood and dashi ingredients
- Cooks withEast Asian fermented sauces and aromatics
- Cooks withEast Asian umami sauces and condiments
- Cooks withJapanese and Korean hot pot ingredients
- BlendedEast Asian fermented sauces and processed staples
- BlendedEast Asian savory pantry staples