Get a recipe from what is in your kitchen

This prompt suggests a recipe from what you already have. List your ingredients and pantry items, your preferred cuisine, diet, time and how many people, and get a dish you can cook now.

text-recipe-from-ingredients — chatgpt — 62 words

I have these ingredients: [LIST]
Also in my pantry: [SPICES, OIL, ETC.]
Cuisine I enjoy: [e.g. South Indian, Italian]
Diet: [VEG / VEGAN / NONE]
Time: [MINUTES]
People: [NUMBER]

Suggest 3 recipes I can make right now with few extra items. For the one you like best give the full recipe with quantities, steps and one tip to make it taste better.

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List everything, including the half-used things. It finds better matches.

Get a better result

What you will get

Three recipes you can make from what you listed, plus the full recipe for the best one, with quantities for your group, step-by-step method and one tip to make it taste better.

Common mistake

Each recipe needs five or six extra items you do not have.

Fix: Add “at most two extra items, and say which ones can be skipped”. The prompt works best when your shopping trip is zero.

Also watch for

Quantities do not match the number of people. Say “scale the recipe to exactly [NUMBER] servings” and check the ingredient amounts against the pan you own.
It cannot tell whether an old ingredient is still safe. Check dates, smell and look yourself, and drop anything doubtful from the list. The AI cannot see your fridge.

Try a variation: use up first

Add “these items must be used by Friday: [LIST]. Build the recipes around them first”. It turns the prompt into a tool for cutting food waste.

Still not right? Reply with this

Use at most two extra items, scale to the exact number of servings I gave you and put the items that are about to go off first.