Cooking is an art and a passion for many men and women. It requires great skill, dedication, and practice to prepare delicious food. If you’re preparing a meal for the first time, you’ll need guidance from your mom, co-chef, or any other person you’re familiar with. If you don’t know cooking and there’s no one around to guide you, don’t worry! Download one of the below best recipe apps on your phone and use it.
Best recipe apps for iPhone and Android
Cookpad
Cookpad is a top-rated and easy-to-use recipe application. At startup, the app asks users to select a language to display recipes in a language that the user can understand. Cookpad supports the following six languages:
- English, Spanish, Urdu.
- Portuguese, Indonesian, Vietnamese.
After choosing the preferred language, tap the continue button. Now, log into Cookpad with your Facebook, or G+ account. You can also register a new account, and sign in. To get started with Cookpad, you can either enter the name of the recipe in the text box or select one of the below options:
- Breakfast, salad, dessert.
- Crockpot, pizza, vegetarian.
When you enter a dish name, Cookpad will display its recipe. CP will show a list of ingredients and detailed instructions on mixing the ingredients. It will also display step-by-step instructions on preparing the selected dish at home or the workplace. If you have excellent culinary skills, you can share your recipe with other users through this app.
Yummly
Yummly is one of the most downloaded recipe and meal planner apps on the Play Store and iTunes. It supports iOS and Android operating systems. This app has been featured on the Today Show, aired on NBC. It is being used by expert chefs as well as amateur cooks. Yummly prompts users to select a taste preference and nutrition level on startup. Once you set these two fields, Yummly will display a list of dishes.
Users can add the ingredients of a recipe to the app’s inbuilt grocery list with a single click. They can sync the list between two or more mobile devices. The user should be logged into the Yummly app to use the data syncing feature. Yummly provides filters with which you can find dishes by their cholesterol level, calories, carbohydrates, proteins, etc. It lets users bookmark recipes. The bookmark section in Yummly is called the Recipe box. This app has a collection of 1+ million recipes from various parts of the world. It is intuitive and fast.
Cookbook Recipes
CR is yet another popular Android recipe app on our list. It doesn’t require account registration. CR supports 18+ languages. To use it, the user must select a preferred language. Then, they must explore the app’s massive collection of dishes. CR enables you to find recipes intended to be prepared only on special occasions or in a particular season. This app detects your location automatically and recommends famous recipes in your region. CR displays the time taken to prepare a selected dish. It will also show step-by-step instructions to make the dish. Like Yummly, CR provides a shopping list feature. Users can easily add the ingredients to their digital shopping list when the list of ingredients has been displayed on the screen. CR lets you bookmark recipes. It provides an option to change the default language.
BuzzFeed Tasty
Tasty by BuzzFeed is one of the largest recipe networks on the web. Although Tasty gives you access to both veg and nonvegetarian recipes, you can configure it to display veg dishes only. The application displays random dishes and the following two tabs on its main screen:
Discover: Discover section is the home interface of the application. It shows the names of dishes and their image. Discover displays a search tool to find dishes by their names. When you tap an image, Tasty will play a video, and it will display ingredients and instructions. You can either bookmark the recipe or share it with friends. Above the instructions, Tasty displays the “Export ingredient list” button. If you tap this button, you’ll see options to send ingredients by Bluetooth, SMS, etc.
My Recipes: Dishes you’ve bookmarked will appear in this section. You must log in to the Tasty recipe app for Android and iPhone with your Facebook or Google account to bookmark recipes.
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Hebbar’s Kitchen
Hebbar’s Kitchen is a lightweight and easy-to-use Indian recipe app for iPhone and Android. It displays several tabs on the screen and a search utility. The tabs enable you to filter dishes by their main ingredient, and the search option allows you to find dishes by their name or ingredient. Hebbars Kitchen displays detailed instructions, nutrition information, and several images when you tap a dish displayed on its interface. It also shows a video. You can see the photos to know how a dish looks before and after mixing the ingredients.
Tarla Dalal Recipes
Tarla Dalal is a top Indian chef. She has been featured on some food-related TV shows and has authored several recipe books. Tarla Dalal’s app allows users to filter recipes by their nutrition value, course, and cuisine. It has an option to watch Tarla Dalal’s recipe videos on YouTube. Users are allowed to post reviews of recipes. They can share recipes with friends as well. With this application, you can learn to prepare the below dishes:
- Chinese, Gujarati, Rajasthani, Jain.
- South Indian, Italian, starters, desserts, etc.
The app has special dishes for people who have diabetes, cholesterol, and other health-related problems.
Final thoughts: Cooking food for loved ones is a great feeling. If you want to make something special for your kids, husband, wife, friends, or relatives, install any one of the above recipe apps for Android and iPhone and use them. The applications will guide you in making any dish you have planned.
