Fried tofu puff + Shichimi togarashi
Fried tofu puff and shichimi togarashi 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 "East Asian umami pantry staples" 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 fried tofu puff and shichimi togarashi — 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 withEast Asian umami pantry staples
- Cooks withEast and Southeast Asian stir-fry staples
- Cooks withEast Asian soy and tofu pantry
- Cooks withJapanese and Korean hot pot ingredients
- BlendedEast Asian fermented sauces and processed staples
- BlendedEast Asian soy and spice pantry
- Tastes likeEast Asian processed condiments and sauces
- Tastes likeSichuan and East-Asian fermented aromatics