Empanada shell + Masa harina
Empanada shell and masa harina are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.33) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.29). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Grain-based breads and doughs" 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 empanada shell and masa harina — 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 withGrain-based breads and doughs
- Cooks withMediterranean spiced savory ingredients
- Cooks withMediterranean savory vinaigrettes and pungent accents
- Cooks withSavory European-American condiments and seasonings
- Cooks withLatin American pantry staples
- BlendedBreads, pastas and grain products
- BlendedMediterranean savory vegetable stews
- BlendedEuropean savory cheeses and charcuterie