What's On My Plate

You have four ingredients and no idea what to make. What’s On My Plate takes the ingredients you have on hand and suggests recipes you can cook without another trip to the shop.

Design

The interesting constraint is that recipe matching is not a simple set intersection — a recipe you can almost make is often more useful than one you can make exactly, provided the missing item is salt rather than saffron. The ranking therefore weights matches by how central each missing ingredient is to the dish.

Results are filterable by cuisine and preparation time, since “what can I cook” usually really means “what can I cook in twenty minutes”.