Hatch chile + Sofrito
Hatch chile and sofrito 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 spiced savory ingredients" 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 hatch chile and sofrito — 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 spiced savory ingredients
- Cooks withMexican and Tex-Mex staples
- Cooks withMediterranean salad and composed dish ingredients
- BlendedMexican and Latin American staples
- BlendedMediterranean savory pantry staples
- BlendedSouthern and Creole everyday cooking staples
- Tastes likeEuropean savory pantry staples
- Tastes likeMediterranean savory pantry staples