ask.recipes

npx add-mcp 'https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp'

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

1. "What's for dinner? Chicken thighs, a lemon and rice, under 40 minutes."
2. "I have oats, milk, eggs and berries. Breakfast?"
3. "A high-protein lunch under 500 calories."
4. "Something vegetarian people actually rate well, 30 minutes."
5. "The second one in full." then "Save it."
6. "What did I save last week?"
7. "Keep this family recipe:..." or "Add the recipe on this page: <url>"
8. "Here's a photo of my mum's recipe card, keep it."
9. "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.