Random meal generator
Draw a complete meal idea with its ingredients and cooking instructions.
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- TheMealDB
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Pick a recipe at random when you can't decide what to cook. Each result shows the dish, its cuisine and category, a photo, the ingredients with measures, and the method, plus a video or source link when the recipe has one.
How to use the random meal generator
- Set the How many slider to draw up to eight meals.
- Fill in one of Cuisine, Category, or Main ingredient, or leave all three blank.
- Click Generate to see ingredients, measurements, and instructions.
- Click Watch recipe when a video link is shown.
Where the recipes come from
Recipes come from TheMealDB, a free recipe database built up by its contributors. The collection runs to a few hundred dishes rather than tens of thousands, so repeats will turn up if you draw often. Measures are written however the contributor wrote them, which means a mix of cups, grams, tablespoons, and the occasional pinch.
One filter at a time
TheMealDB can filter by cuisine, by category, or by main ingredient, but not by two at once, so the tool accepts one. Fill in more than one field and it will ask you to clear the others.
Cuisine takes names like Italian, Mexican, Indian, or Japanese. Category uses the database's own groups, such as Beef, Chicken, Seafood, Dessert, Vegetarian, or Vegan. Main ingredient works best with one plain word like chicken, salmon, or rice. If nothing comes back, try a broader word.
Before you cook
Check the ingredient list against your cupboard first and treat cooking times as a guide. The source has no nutrition or allergen data, so anyone cooking around an allergy needs to check each ingredient themselves.
Frequently asked questions
Where do the recipes come from?
TheMealDB. Each result includes its ingredients, measures, and instructions.
Can I combine a cuisine and an ingredient?
No. The source supports one filter per request, so pick the one that matters most.
Do the recipes include nutrition?
No. There are no calorie or allergen figures in the source.
Why did I get the same dish again?
The collection is small and each draw is independent, so repeats across draws are normal.
Built and maintained by Bipul Kumar. Found a wrong number or a broken result? Tell me and I'll fix it.