The phrase "a delicate mixture" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a combination of elements that are sensitive or require careful handling, often in contexts like cooking, art, or emotions.
Example: "The chef created a delicate mixture of flavors that tantalized the taste buds."
Alternatives: "a subtle blend" or "a fragile combination."
The British chef, Gordon Ramsay, stuffs sea bass with a delicate mixture of diced fennel and fresh ginger and bakes it with a little white wine.
It's more evocative of the American midwest - a delicate mixture of open vowels and reluctant consonants, nearer Tom Hanks than Tom Cobley.
At the Italian restaurant Insieme in New York, Edward Higgins lightly pickles them with a delicate mixture of herbs and spices and then shaves the shoots into rings to spruce up his crudo.
While the money will be spent to promote Glow, Ms. Lopez's new fragrance (described as a delicate mixture of orange blossom, vanilla and rose), the company expects that the attention will also promote the fashion lines.
A delicate mixture of the mundane and the magical, the Rupert stories were simply told – four panels to the page, with a one-line summary at the top and a rhyming couplet below each panel in mallet-blow iambics, which made the stories' outcomes seem somehow hypnotic and inevitable.
Getting to the heart of the issue requires a delicate mixture of often opposing ideologies — holding police more accountable for their actions while encouraging African-Americans to acknowledge that they also are part of the problem.
Nigger's love was "more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation", and of "the senses only".
"Their griefs are transient," he wrote, and their love lacked "a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation".
But the European Commission, the union's executive body, lacks the expertise to manage the delicate mixture of carrots and sticks that would be involved in any bailout, economists say.
The scenes of the slender teen-agers courting and making love have a delicate erotic strength — a mixture of shyness and lust — that is almost impossible to imagine in a modern Western setting..
Barley and Herb-Stuffed Vegetables: This dish is based on a Turkish stuffing for vegetables, a delicate sweet-savory rice mixture seasoned with allspice, cinnamon, parsley, and dill or mint.
