Kashmiri chili + Khoya
Kashmiri chili and khoya are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.41) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. 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 kashmiri chili and khoya — 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 withSavory aromatic herbs and warm spices
- Cooks withSweet baking and dessert ingredients
- Cooks withSoutheast Asian floral confectionery ingredients
- BlendedLatin American and Indian spiced savory staples
- BlendedMediterranean aromatic herbs and spices
- BlendedEast-Asian roots mushrooms and aromatic spices
- Tastes likeSouth and Southeast Asian savory spices and pulses