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Find recipes for what is in my fridge

Five dishes that use most of what you have, with the few extra items that you still need.

  • You start it: When you start it
Use in CuiarRun from your AI agent

What it does

The task

I have these ingredients: ingredients. Find 5 recipes on recipe sites that use as many of them as possible and need at most 3 extra items. Each recipe takes at most minutes minutes and has a rating of 4 or more. For each recipe, give the name, the time, the ingredients it uses from my list, the extra items and the link. Put the recipe that uses the most of my ingredients first.

  • It works in any website, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
  • It runs once, when you start it.

What you give it

BlankWhat to giveExample
ingredientsWhat you have, with rough amountsHalf a cabbage, 3 carrots, 4 eggs, 200 g cooked rice, a piece of ginger
minutesThe most time for one recipe, in minutes30

What you get back

An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.

5 recipes for your cabbage, carrots, eggs, rice and ginger

1. Egg fried rice with cabbage and carrot20 minuses 5 of 5extra: soy sauce, spring onionslink
2. Cabbage and carrot okonomiyaki25 minuses 4 of 5extra: flour, mayonnaiselink
3. Ginger cabbage stir-fry with a fried egg15 minuses 4 of 5extra: sesame oillink
4. Cabbage and rice omelette15 minuses 3 of 5extra: cheeselink
5. Carrot and ginger soup30 minuses 2 of 5extra: stock cube, creamlink

Run it in Cuiar

  1. 01

    Open it

    Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.

  2. 02

    Fill in 2 blanks

    Type ingredients and minutes. Tab moves to the next blank.

  3. 03

    Run it

    Run sends it to the agent. Follow each step in the panel, and stop it at any time.

From the terminal

cuiar exec "I have these ingredients: Half a cabbage, 3 carrots, 4 eggs, 200 g cooked rice, a piece of ginger. Find 5 recipes on recipe sites that use as many of them as possible and need at most 3 extra items. Each recipe takes at most 30 minutes and has a rating of 4 or more. For each recipe, give the name, the time, the ingredients it uses from my list, the extra items and the link. Put the recipe that uses the most of my ingredients first."

Run it from your AI agent

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call run_task yourself.

1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp

2. Ask your agent

Use the Cuiar tool run_task to run my "Find recipes for what is in my fridge" template with ingredients = Half a cabbage, 3 carrots, 4 eggs, 200 g cooked rice, a piece of ginger; minutes = 30.

Setup for other agents: AI agents.

The tool call

{
  "name": "run_task",
  "arguments": {
    "task": "I have these ingredients: Half a cabbage, 3 carrots, 4 eggs, 200 g cooked rice, a piece of ginger. Find 5 recipes on recipe sites that use as many of them as possible and need at most 3 extra items. Each recipe takes at most 30 minutes and has a rating of 4 or more. For each recipe, give the name, the time, the ingredients it uses from my list, the extra items and the link. Put the recipe that uses the most of my ingredients first."
  }
}

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