HowToCook MCP Server

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Access a searchable recipe catalog and fetch full recipe details (ingredients, steps) to answer user cooking questions.

• 2

  Generate personalized weekly meal plans accounting for allergies, disliked ingredients, and household size.

• 3

  Recommend daily menus or quick dinner suggestions based on the number of diners and dietary constraints.

Description

This MCP server wraps the HowToCook recipe dataset to provide endpoints for listing all recipes, filtering by category, fetching full recipe details, recommending weekly meal plans considering allergies and dislikes, and suggesting daily menus by headcount. It is designed to be used with MCP-capable clients (e.g., Claude Desktop, Cursor) and can be packaged as a DXT for easy installation. Includes local development instructions, npm packaging, and an example live demo site for quick testing.

Capabilities(5 total)