Fennel pollen + New mexico chile

Fennel pollen and new mexico chile 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.

Pairing scores

Cooks withweak signal

0.09

Tastes likemoderate signal

0.29

Blendedmoderate signal

0.46

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.

Good additions to this pair

Ingredients that go well with both fennel pollen and new mexico chile — candidates for completing the dish.

Espelette pepper0.25 Peppadew pepper0.23 Mulato chile0.23 Pickapeppa sauce0.23 Greek seasoning0.23 Jerk seasoning0.23 Aji panca0.23 Couscous0.22

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.

Shared flavor modes

Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.

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