Habanero pepper + Tomatillo
Habanero pepper and tomatillo are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.30) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.28). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean vinegars and piquant peppers" 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 habanero pepper and tomatillo — 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 vinegars and piquant peppers
- Cooks withMediterranean savory herbs and cheeses
- Cooks withMexican and Latin American chiles
- Cooks withMediterranean savory vegetables and aromatics
- Cooks withFresh whole vegetables and aromatics
- Cooks withMexican and Tex-Mex staples
- Cooks withWestern deli cheeses and bold condiments
- BlendedMediterranean vinegars and savory spices