recipenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈres.ɪ.pi/us/ˈres.ə.pi/B1 a set of instructions telling you how to prepare and cook food, including a list of what food is needed for this:
For real South Asian food, just follow these recipes.
Do you know a good recipe for wholemeal bread?
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- You'll need a can of tuna for this recipe.
- Baking a cake isn't difficult - it's just a matter of following the recipe.
- The recipe is given in both metric and imperial measures.
- I never follow recipes exactly when I cook - I just use them as rough guides.
- I'm always on the lookout for interesting new recipes.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Preparing food
- butter
- can't boil an egg idiom
- caramelize
- carve
- clarified
- cube
- dice
- fold
- knead
- leaven
- liquidize
- malt
- marinade
- salt
- spice
- stuffed
- sweeten
- thicken
- thin
- whip sth up
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Idiom(s)
be a recipe for disaster, trouble, success, etc.