Espelette pepper + Portobello mushroom
Espelette pepper and portobello mushroom are weakly related — neither commonly paired in recipes nor close in aroma chemistry. They can be combined creatively, but there's no strong evidence the pairing is established. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean savory herbs and cheeses" 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 espelette pepper and portobello mushroom — 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 savory herbs and cheeses
- Cooks withLatin American chiles and dried peppers
- Cooks withAged cheeses and dried chiles
- Cooks withHearty chiles and savory vegetables
- BlendedMediterranean savory pantry staples
- BlendedSavory peppers, herbs and legumes
- BlendedMediterranean aged cheeses and mushrooms
- BlendedPungent Mediterranean vegetables and aromatics