Imagine this: some of your friends and relatives have arrived at your home in the evening. And you want to serve them with some delectable dishes and you do not have time to rush to supermarkets for buying some exotic ingredients. After all, cinnamon oil, caviar, foie grass, truffles are not usually stocked in your shelves. What is even worse is that rarely you may find these exotic ingredients in and around any local markets. Will you be able to cooks any mouthwatering and presentable dishes for your guests with refrigerated vegetables or staples and spices from your kitchen? If you could not yet decide what great food you can cook using common household ingredients, then here are the answers to your prayers – an online guide. We have found some websites that will keep your worries at bay by giving you delicious recipes which you can search by the name of ingredients. These websites are SuperCook, Recipe Matcher, Recipe Key and Yummly. So, next time you have no options of collecting exotic ingredients and are left with common household spices, a few onions, pork tenderloin or some frozen meat, carrots, Israeli couscous, a couple of onions to cook, these websites will be handy to find out recipes matching these items.
SuperCook
SuperCook lets you find recipes that you can cook with your regular hoardings such as salt, butter, tomato puree etc., so that you do not need to add new ingredients every time, thus, saving your time for preparation. There is also an ‘Exclusions’ list so that you can exclude an ingredient which is not in your stock list from the search for that day. You can either search by individual ingredient or by a particular category like ‘meats’, ‘gluten’.
The recipes at SuperCook are provided by professional chefs so those are tried, tested and ensure great quality. The only flaw with the SuperCook is that most of the variations are mixed up, for example, you could get chicken salami, chicken sausage and roasted chicken steaks mixed up in all check recipes and you will take a lot of time to choose a chicken salami recipe that you want. For this, you can visit marthastewart.com or recipezaar.com to get distinguished list of recipes for each.
RecipeKey.com & RecipeMatcher.com
Two other recipe websites to help you maintain pantries on the Internet are and RecipeKey.com and RecipeMatcher.com. Though these two sites do not contain recipes from professional chefs like SuperCook, these two bring recipe sites welcome you to store recipes and get recipes from other home based cooks.
Yummly
Finally, we come to Yummly website that comes with pro recipes, but it does not feature pantry option. People frequent to Yummly to take advantage of its exceptional recipes matching exact ingredients. In addition to adding and subtracting ingredients from the pantry, users can sort recipes by type of diet such as vegan or non-vegetarian, by nutritional value such as calories, fat, carbohydrate, cholesterol, by preparation time, by taste such as savory, salty, bitter, sweet or sour etc.
