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What Can I Cook With What I Have?

List the ingredients you have and get recipe ideas built around them. Suggestions come from an AI assistant, so check them before you cook. No sign-up required.

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How it works

Start With What You Already Have

Most recipes start with a dish and hand you a shopping list. When you are tired, short on money, or just trying to use up what is in the fridge, it helps to start from the other end.

List what you have, even if it is just an onion, three eggs and half a bag of rice, and the generator will suggest dishes built around it. Or browse our recipe library, where every recipe uses widely available ingredients and lists substitutions.

Three steps

1

Enter Your Ingredients

Type what you have in the fridge and cupboards. Mention quantities if you like, or just list loose staples.

2

Set Your Preferences

Optionally narrow results by dietary needs (vegetarian, gluten-free), time limits (under 15 or 30 mins), or difficulty.

3

Cook Practical Meals

Get recipe ideas that separate what you have from what you would need, with step-by-step instructions. Check AI suggestions before cooking.

Kitchen Staples

Popular Pantry Ingredients

Explore storage tips, substitutions, and proven recipes for your foundational kitchen ingredients.

All Ingredient Guides

Eggs

The ultimate versatile protein staple. From silky scrambles to binders and quick bakes.

Potatoes

Hearty, affordable, and incredibly satisfying. The foundation of comforting skillet dinners.

Chicken Breasts & Thighs

The weeknight protein champion. Lean, quick-cooking, and readily absorbs any flavor profile.

Rice

The global pantry foundation. Perfect for fried rices, grain bowls, and comforting pilafs.

Tomatoes

Sweet, acidic, and bursting with natural umami. The base of countless world-class sauces.

Onions

The aromatic foundation of savory cooking worldwide. Adds essential depth and sweetness.

Pasta & Noodles

The ultimate comforting blank canvas for quick sauces, olive oil, garlic, and cheeses.

Garlic Cloves

Pungent, sweet, and aromatic. The unmistakable heartbeat of global home cooking.

Curated Favorites

Popular Recipe Ideas

Straightforward weeknight dinners built around pantry staples.

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30 mins•2 servings•Easy

Crispy Potato & Egg Skillet

Golden skillet-fried potatoes, sweet caramelized onions, and eggs cooked to your liking in one comforting cast-iron pan.

7 ingredientsView Recipe →
22 mins•3 servings•Easy

Garlic Butter Chicken Bites

Juicy, golden seared chicken chunks coated in a luscious pan-sauce of bubbling butter, fresh garlic, and cracked pepper.

7 ingredientsView Recipe →
Fast Dinners

Quick Meals in 20 Minutes or Less

No long simmer times or complex techniques when you need dinner on the table right away.

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Low Cost Per Serving

Budget-Friendly Weeknight Dinners

Hearty, satisfying meals made from affordable beans, potatoes, eggs, and grains.

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30 mins•2 servings•Easy

Crispy Potato & Egg Skillet

Golden skillet-fried potatoes, sweet caramelized onions, and eggs cooked to your liking in one comforting cast-iron pan.

7 ingredientsView Recipe →
Cooking guides

Guides & Tips

Practical guides to substitutions, storing food, cooking on a budget, and using up leftovers.

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Free calculators

Kitchen Tools

Estimate calories with USDA data, convert cups to grams, and resize any recipe.

All Kitchen Tools

Recipe Calorie & Nutrition Calculator

Add your ingredients and amounts to estimate calories, protein, fat, carbohydrate, fiber, sugars and sodium for the whole recipe and per serving, using USDA data.

Kitchen Unit Converter

Convert cups to grams for specific ingredients using USDA weights, plus volume, weight and oven temperature conversions.

Recipe Scaler

Paste any ingredient list and scale it to a different number of servings or by a multiplier.

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Explore All Recipe Categories

Find ideas tailored to specific dietary preferences, preparation styles, and courses.

Breakfast & Brunch

Breakfast

Nourishing, fast morning dishes made with eggs, oats, potatoes, and pantry staples.

Weeknight Dinners

Dinner

Wholesome, satisfying evening meals that come together without a special grocery run.

Under 30 Min

Quick Meals

Speedy recipes ready in 30 minutes or less for busy weeknights and lunch breaks.

Wallet Friendly

Budget Meals

Flavor-packed meals designed to keep cost per serving low using smart pantry staples.

Single Pan

One-Pot Meals

Minimal mess, maximum flavor: complete dinners made in a single skillet, pot, or baking sheet.

Meatless

Vegetarian

Plant-forward dinners highlighting beans, seasonal vegetables, eggs, cheese, and grains.

Poultry

Chicken Recipes

Reliable, juicy ways to cook chicken breasts, thighs, and leftover cooked chicken.

Pasta

Pasta & Noodles

Comforting pastas brought to life with olive oil, garlic, tomatoes, and everyday pantry cheese.

Grains

Rice & Grains

Crispy fried rices, comforting pilafs, and grain bowls that make the most of leftover rice.

Eggs

Egg Recipes

From shakshuka to crispy-edge fried eggs and fluffy scrambles: quick protein anytime.

Soups

Soups & Stews

Warming, nourishing broths and hearty vegetable chowders built from leftover produce.

Roots

Potato Dishes

Crispy hash, skillet home fries, and creamy soups that turn humble spuds into a feast.

Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

About the recipe generator and our recipes.

Can I use the recipe generator without an account?

Yes. There are no accounts or logins. The recipe generator at the top of this page is free to use, and the recipes and guides are free to read.

How many recipes can I generate each day?

You can run 3 AI searches per day (the count resets at midnight UTC). Each search returns up to 3 recipe ideas. If the AI service is unavailable, the tool shows matching recipes from our library instead, and those do not count toward the limit.

What if I am missing an ingredient in a recipe?

Every recipe in our library lists substitutions, and AI suggestions usually include some too. For example, if you have no heavy cream, ¾ cup of milk with ¼ cup of melted butter works in most cooked sauces (it will not whip). Our substitution guide covers the most common swaps.

Can I use leftovers and odds-and-ends from the fridge?

Yes, that is what the tool is for. Enter items like "half an onion, cooked rice, 2 eggs, spinach" and it will suggest recipes built around them. Check that leftovers are still good: refrigerated cooked food is best eaten within 3 to 4 days, and cooked rice sooner.

Can I specify dietary restrictions and time limits?

Yes. Optional filters cover Vegetarian, Vegan, High Protein, Low Carb and Gluten Free, total time (under 15, 30 or 60 minutes) and difficulty. AI suggestions can still make mistakes, so check ingredient labels if you have an allergy or need a recipe to be gluten-free.

Do the recipes work with basic kitchen equipment?

Yes. Our recipes use a stovetop, an oven, and ordinary pots, skillets and baking sheets. A few call for a blender or an immersion blender, which a potato masher can usually replace.