Peanut sauce + Sambal oelek
Peanut sauce and sambal oelek pair classically — they're cooked together often and share aroma chemistry, so the combination is both familiar and chemically coherent. 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 peanut sauce and sambal oelek — 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 withEast Asian aromatic vegetables and mushrooms
- Cooks withEast-Asian mushrooms and aromatics
- Cooks withSavory Latin-inflected aromatics and vegetables
- Cooks withSavory condiments and spiced sauces
- Cooks withEast Asian umami sauces and condiments
- Cooks withIndonesian spice paste aromatics
- Cooks withEast Asian hot pot ingredients