I need Supercook, but different...?

October 16, 2018 8:49 AM

Are there webites like Supercook, MyFridgeFood, or Recipe Land but for other culture's foods? The Supercook of the Indian sub-continent, or MyFridgeFood for Korean?

My freezer and pantry have filled up with random bits and bobs over time, and are in badly need of a purge. Usually I'd go to sites like those above, where you enter what ingredients you have and it spits out a list of recipes you can make with what you have on hand. Very useful for using up random items you have a small-ish amount of.

However, I've noticed that these sites mostly consist of pretty tried-and-true "midwestern" type meals. Nothing wrong with that, but it isn't going to help me use up my miso paste. Also, the "ethnic" recipes the sites do have are....not quite what I'm looking for? Like, I get the same vibe from the Chicken Tikka Masala recipes on Supercook that I do when I crack open my Better Homes and Gardens 60's Cookbooks.

I can and will utilize regular recipe sites, but having the functionality of a site that can tell me things like, "You have everything on hand to make Kimbap except pickled radish" is super useful to me and the remaining shreds of my meal planning skills.

posted by sharp pointy objects to Food & Drink (1 answer total)

I feel like I'm always touting this site here, but I highly recommend a service called Eat Your Books. There is a small annual fee for the premium version but you can have a free limited membership. The brilliance of Eat Your Books is that it indexes cookbooks and websites by ingredient. Therefore it's really perfect for finding recipes to use up a bit of this and a bit of that because you can just enter them all in the search bar and figure out a good recipe that uses them all up. Can't recommend it more.
posted by peacheater at 10:06 AM on October 16, 2018 [2 favorites]