ask.recipes is a remote MCP server. Connect it once; after that you ask your AI for food the way you would ask a friend who cooks. It finds recipes, saves your favourites and builds your own cookbook.
Server URL: https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp
Connect
- Claude (web, desktop, mobile): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the URL. Pick a conversation, enable the connector, sign in when asked.
- Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http ask-recipes https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp, then /mcp to sign in.
- ChatGPT: Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode → add the URL, OAuth as the authentication.
- Any other MCP client: streamable HTTP transport, OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration. Discovery at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
Sign in
The first call opens a sign-in page. Enter your email, click the link we send, done. No password, no newsletter. The account exists so your saved recipes stay yours and so the service can stop abuse. It is free.
What to ask
- "What's for dinner? Chicken thighs, a lemon and rice, under 40 minutes."
- "I have oats, milk, eggs and berries. Breakfast?"
- "A high-protein lunch under 500 calories."
- "Something vegetarian people actually rate well, 30 minutes."
- "The second one in full." then "Save it."
- "What did I save last week?"
- "Keep this family recipe: ..." or "Add the recipe on this page: <url>"
- "Here's a photo of my mum's recipe card, keep it."
- "Give me a link to send my sister the lasagna I uploaded."
Tools
| Tool | Does |
|---|---|
| search_recipes | Search by dish or ingredient with filters for total time, rating, review count, calories, protein, fat, carbs, sugar, fiber. |
| find_by_ingredients | Rank recipes by how many of the ingredients you have they use, and how few extra they need. |
| get_recipe | One recipe in full: ingredients, steps, times, yield, nutrition, source link. |
| save_recipe / list_saved | Your collection. |
| upload_recipe | A private recipe of your own: typed, dictated, from a photo, or extracted from a web page. |
| share_recipe | An unlisted link to one of your uploaded recipes, readable without an account. |
Good to know
- Search defaults to recipes rated at least 4.2 stars by at least 25 people. Ask your agent to loosen it for something obscure.
- Nutrition is per serving as the source published it. Recipes without it drop out when you filter on nutrition.
- Every recipe carries its source link. Crawled recipes cannot be shared through us; share the source link instead.
- The corpus is built from openly licensed recipe data, Food.com's public dataset first. Numbers on the home page are real and dated.
- No browsing UI exists and none is planned. The agent is the interface.
Support
Email [email protected]. Recipe sources with a removal request: [email protected]. Privacy · Terms.