Lentil + Zucchini
Lentil and zucchini are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.49) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean savory vegetables and aromatics" 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 lentil and zucchini — 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 savory vegetables and aromatics
- Cooks withSavory aromatic vegetables and seasonings
- Cooks withSavory whole-food Mediterranean pantry staples
- BlendedMediterranean savory vegetables and grains
- BlendedMediterranean vegetables and savory pantry staples
- BlendedPungent Mediterranean vegetables and aromatics
- BlendedEast Asian savory broth ingredients
- BlendedHearty vegetable and whole grain bowl ingredients