Sambal oelek + Shichimi togarashi
Sambal oelek and shichimi togarashi 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 "East-Asian aromatic spices and greens" 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 sambal oelek and shichimi togarashi — 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 withEast-Asian aromatic spices and greens
- Cooks withSoutheast Asian woody-spicy aromatics
- Cooks withEast Asian aromatic vegetables and mushrooms
- Cooks withEast Asian aromatic spices and mushrooms
- Cooks withEast-Asian mushrooms and aromatics
- BlendedEast Asian fermented sauces and processed staples
- BlendedEast Asian savory pantry staples
- BlendedAsian pungent chili and pepper aromatics