The cookbook
for AI agents.

Ask for dinner. Every recipe cooked and rated by people.

An MCP server for any agent. Connect once, ask for dinner, get a real recipe: rated by people, linked to its author.

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https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp

You"Chicken thighs, a lemon, rice and garlic. Dinner for four, under 40 minutes."

Your agent

Three recipes use what you have, each rated 5.0 by at least 42 people. Million Dollar Chicken, Moroccan style, 35 min, 69 ratings: thighs and garlic simmered in salsa, honey, cumin and cinnamon, toasted almonds on top, served over rice. Bourbon Chicken, 25 min, 48 ratings. Lemon Rice Pilaf, 35 min, 42 ratings, as a side.

None of the chicken dishes use the lemon; it goes in the rice. Want one in full?

You"The Moroccan one. Full recipe."

Million Dollar Chicken, Moroccan Style

5.0 ×69 35 min 4 servings 12 steps
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1/4 cup chopped almonds
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 8 chicken thighs, skinned and boned
  • 1 cup bottled salsa
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 2 Tbsp dried currants
  • 1 Tbsp honey
  • 3/4 tsp ground cumin
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 3 cups hot cooked couscous or rice
Source: food.com ↗

660 kcal · 40.1g protein
41.8g carbs · 4.2g fiber

You"Save it. And a quick lemon rice to go with it."

Your agent

Saved. For the side: Lemon Rice, 25 min, 5.0 from 115 ratings. One pot, four steps; beyond your lemon and rice it wants broth, butter, basil and lemon pepper. Both sit in your saved list for next time.

Real exchange, 11 October 2026, against the live server. Recipes, ratings and nutrition exactly as served.

Agents invent recipes.
That's a recipe for disaster.

Ask a model for dinner and it will confidently blend three recipes it half-remembers into one nobody ever cooked. ask.recipes gives your agent ground truth instead: recipes crawled from the structured data recipe sites publish themselves, kept only when people rated them well, served with nutrition and a link back to the author. Your agent still does what it's good at: swapping ingredients, scaling servings, planning the week. It just doesn't have to invent the recipe.

What the recipe page makes you scroll
1,308 words on the page American Goulash came from, counted 1 recipe, somewhere in there
What your agent hands you
9 ingredient lines. American Goulash, as served at the counter below 8 steps. 0 ads. Nutrition included. Author credited.

Same recipe, both times. We keep the facts: ingredients, steps, times, ratings. The prose and the ads stay where they live.

What's on the counter

search_recipes

"High-protein breakfast, under 20 minutes." Filtered by source ratings: 4.2★ and 25+ reviews by default.

find_by_ingredients

"I have oats, eggs, skyr and berries." Ranked by what you have and how little you're missing.

get_recipe

The full ticket: ingredients, steps, times, yield, nutrition, and the source link. Nothing else.

save_recipe · list_saved

"Save that one." Your keepers, on a nail by the counter, any session.

upload_recipe

Grandma's lasagna goes in the box too. Private to you, searchable by your agent.

substitutions?

Your agent's job. And it's good at it, once it has a recipe to stand on. We supply the ground truth.

Ask at the counter

The conversation is an example; the tickets aren't — they're crawled recipes exactly as served, ratings and nutrition included.

Connect your agent

  1. Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp
  2. ChatGPT: Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode → Add the same URL.
  3. Sign in when your agent asks. It's free; the account just keeps the counter orderly and your saved recipes yours.
  4. Ask. "Find me a weeknight curry people actually rate well." Done.

Searching and reading recipes is free. No ads, ever. An ad-free recipe service that shows you ads would be a strange thing to build.