Forum: cooking.stackexchange.com
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Title: How does one find recipes given an ingredient rather than the recipe name?
Question: How does one find recipes given an ingredient rather than the recipe name?

Answers:
sents: text: Supercook Supercook 's core feature is a "pantry inventory" system.
text: You basically fill in all the ingredients you have in your kitchen.
text: You are presented with recipe choices based on a subset of your ingredients, as you enter them.
text: You can then "emphasize" certain ingredients which makes them a required ingredient in the recipes you are shown.
text: It will also show recipes where you are only missing 1-3 ingredients; useful if you don't mind running to the grocery store.
text: You can also exclude specific ingredients from recipe results.
text: Creating an account permits you to save your ingredients as well as your favorite recipes.
text: You can also generate shopping lists based on the missing ingredients from your favorite recipes that you don't currently have in stock.
text: The quality of recipes varies a lot.
text: Supercook sources its recipes from many other sites, including: Allrecipes, Recipezaar, Epicurious, FoodGeeks and others.
text: Some sites (like Allrecipes) I feel have a lot of "filler" recipes, which are simply present for search results.
text: Epicurious Epicurious doesn't provide the "pantry inventory" aspect that Supercook does, but it is very useful in its own way.
text: With Epicurious you search for your main ingredient, e.g. chicken, and then refine your search using ingredients and other parameters such as: meal, dietary requirements, holiday, cuisine, and preparation method (among others).
text: I find their interface very intuitive.
text: One of Epicurious' greatest strengths is the quality of its recipes.
text: Many of the recipes are originally from the reputable food magazines Gourmet and Bon Appetit.
text: I find the recipe ratings to be very accurate, and the community feedback on the recipes is also of a reasonably high caliber.
text: I also find their original content recipes to be very high quality.
text: They often come up with quality themed recipes for major holidays, including full menus.
text: They also have a useful iPhone/iPad app that provides recipe syncing.
text: I often use the iPhone app when grocery shopping to check off ingredients that I need for whatever dish I'm planning to make.
text: Allrecipes Allrecipes is another site I have used.
text: Allrecipes has a general purpose recipe search, similar to Epicurious.
text: It also has an ingredient search that is similar to Supercook.
text: The ingredient search doesn't provide the ability to save your pantry inventory like Supercook does, but is more of an ad hoc way to find recipes based on a list of ingredients and exclusions.
text: Unfortunately, I find the recipe quality to be rather low here.
text: There are a lot of user submitted recipes which tend to range in quality from mediocre to atrocious.
text: The feedback left by the community is also subpar.
text: I tend to use it when I want a really basic recipe to use as a base for something more.
text: They do have a lot of these "filler recipes", as I call them, which are very simple and often missing a thing or three that make them memorable.
text: This is useful for experimenting or giving yourself ideas.
text: Food Network Food Network is another site I use that functions very similarly to Epicurious.
text: Food Network has a general purpose recipe search that permits filtering of results by cuisine, ingredients, technique, show, tv personality, and others.
text: I use Food Network primarily to look up recipes that I've seen on a Food Network show before, but didn't record at the time.
text: I also find it very useful for finding new recipes by a chef I like.
text: It's pretty much the canonical source for all Alton Brown recipes for example.
text: The community feedback and recipe ratings are middle of the road.
text: I find they are less reliable than Epicurious, but far more reliable than Allrecipes.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/60/hobodave
score: 27
sents: text: http://allrecipes.com/Search/Ingredients.aspx This site has tons of good recipes.
text: You can include up to 4 ingredients, pick a category, and enter additional keywords.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/5095/Hanmyo
score: 17
sents: text: http://www.recipepuppy.com/ seems to generally be quite good.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/22/moonshadow
score: 2
sents: text: google recipe search!
text: http://www.google.com/landing/recipes/
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/1415/franko
score: 2
sents: text: I personally prefer Recipes By Ingredients: Its on almost everything from windows, apple , android , amazon, and chrome
text: It allows for searching by ingredients, allergies, servings, calories, and a lot more It also allows you to save a recipe and access it from any device
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/17082/Susan Wade
score: 2
sents: text: The main suggestions are provided above.
text: But I'll add that you can go to just about any of your favorite cooking blogs.
text: Many have a search feature and you can type in an ingredient name and a list of entries including that ingredient will pop up.
text: I've tried this before.
text: But I do love allrecipes.com because you can add a list of ingredients.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/5027/Spice Sherpa
score: 1
sents: text: What Could I Cook? is a great and growing resource of member-submitted recipes.
text: One of its big supporters and submitters is the UK Guardian website, which attracts high-profile chefs.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/2389/Gary
score: 1
sents: text: Quite a few dead tree cookbooks have indexes ordered by main ingredient.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/20424/user8265
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
Supercook's 'pantry inventory' system, Allrecipies general purpose recipe search and Recipes by Ingredients work well.
Try Supercook, Allrecipes and Recipes by Ingredients.