Nigella seed + Star anise
Nigella seed and star anise 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 "Pan-Asian aromatic whole spices and masalas" 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 nigella seed and star anise — 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 withPan-Asian aromatic whole spices and masalas
- BlendedMediterranean aromatic herbs and spices
- BlendedAromatic bitter spices and herbs
- Tastes likeSouth and Southeast Asian savory spices and pulses
- Tastes likeAromatic woody-citrus spices and herbs
- Tastes likeWoody aromatic spices and herbs
- Tastes likeSouth Asian bitter aromatic spices
- Tastes likeSouth Asian whole and ground spices