Empanada shell + Scamorza
Empanada shell and scamorza are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.32) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.22). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean processed cheeses and cured meats" 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 scamorza — 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 withMediterranean processed cheeses and cured meats
- Cooks withMediterranean cheeses, herbs & savory staples
- Cooks withMediterranean savory vinaigrettes and pungent accents
- BlendedItalian-Mediterranean deli and cheese staples
- BlendedMediterranean and Latin pantry specialties
- BlendedItalian antipasto and pasta ingredients
- Tastes likeProcessed deli meats cheeses and condiments