Start with your kitchen, not with a recipe
Most recipe sites ask what you want to cook and then send you shopping. Recipe King works the other way round: you tell it what is already in your fridge, your freezer and your cupboard, and it writes recipes around that.
What you tell us
- Your ingredients. Type them in, or tap the staples. Salt, pepper, oil and water are assumed.
- The kind of meal. Breakfast through to a dinner party, and how many people are eating.
- How long you have, and how much effort you want to make. Twenty minutes on a Tuesday is a different recipe from a Saturday afternoon.
- Direction. A cuisine if you fancy one, dietary requirements, and anything that must not appear on the plate.
- Anything else. One pan only, the children are eating too, the oven is broken — it all gets used.
What comes back
Recipes in a fixed format, every time: what you need with the things you already have marked, a numbered method with timings, and the extras that matter — tips, variations, what can be made ahead, how to keep leftovers. Ask for more than one course and you also get a timing plan that gets everything to the table together.
The shopping list holds only what you are actually missing.
Printing
Every recipe has a print view laid out for A4, and a PDF download that looks exactly the same. It is designed to be readable from a worktop with something sticky on your hands.
The library
For dishes that get cooked everywhere, we keep tested recipes ready. If your ingredients match one of those, you get it straight away — no waiting, and nothing generated that did not need to be.