Six in the evening, fridge open, and the contents are: half a cabbage, three eggs, some rice, and a jar of something. Recipe sites are no help, because they start from a dish and work backwards to a shopping list, and you have no interest in shopping.
Cooking from what exists is a different skill, and it is one AI happens to be genuinely good at - because it is a matching problem, and it has seen a very large number of recipes.
This prompt works the right way round: you list what you have, add any constraints, and get one or two real recipes with the ingredient list, the steps and an approximate time. The time estimate matters more than it sounds - at six in the evening the difference between twenty minutes and an hour decides everything.
Run it in the AIMIKA chat in Text mode.
You get one or two real recipes with an ingredient list, numbered steps and an approximate time. The timing matters more than it sounds: at six in the evening, the difference between twenty minutes and an hour decides whether you cook at all or order something.
The trick is to list the boring things too. Oil, flour, salt, a stock cube, the soy sauce at the back of the cupboard. Half of all workable recipes hinge on something you did not think worth mentioning, and the suggestions get noticeably better when the model knows what you have to work with.