Fresno pepper + Sambal oelek
Fresno pepper and sambal oelek 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 vegetables and aromatics" 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 fresno pepper and sambal oelek — 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 vegetables and aromatics
- Cooks withSavory Latin-inflected aromatics and vegetables
- Cooks withSavory meal components and condiments
- BlendedEast Asian savory pantry staples
- BlendedEast Asian chili peppers and aromatics
- BlendedLatin American chiles and aromatics
- BlendedEast-Asian pungent vegetables and aromatics
- BlendedEast and Southeast Asian pantry staples