Gourami + Sweet soy sauce
Gourami and sweet soy sauce pair classically — they're cooked together often and share aroma chemistry, so the combination is both familiar and chemically coherent. Both sit inside the "South Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry" 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 gourami and sweet soy sauce — 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 withSouth Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry
- Cooks withEast Asian umami mushrooms and seafood
- Cooks withIndonesian spice paste aromatics
- BlendedEast Asian savory pantry staples
- BlendedEast Asian seafood and umami aromatics
- BlendedHearty vegetable and whole grain bowl ingredients
- Tastes likeSouth and Southeast Asian savory spices and pulses
- Tastes likeEast Asian umami seafood and mushrooms