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Recipes Belong to Menu Items

A recipe in Puree is the costed build behind a dish your customer sees, so it's attached to a menu item. Open any menu item's edit page and you'll find a Recipe panel: link an existing recipe or start a new one. You can also manage all recipes from Logistics → Recipes.

Building a Recipe

Add ingredients from your library with the quantity each needs. As you build it, the food cost updates live. For each line you can record optional notes and a waste allowance, and the recipe as a whole can carry a method — turning it into a genuine kitchen card, not just a costing sheet.

You can also import a recipe from a URL to get a head start, then tidy the ingredients and quantities to match how you actually make it.

Base Yield and Scaling

Every recipe has a base yield — "makes 50 canapés" or "serves 10". Puree can scale the recipe to whatever batch an event needs: quantities and total cost recalculate proportionally, so a recipe written once works for a dinner for 8 and a wedding for 280.

Food Cost and Margin

Once an item has a recipe, Puree shows its food cost (total ingredient cost) and, against the item's selling price, your margin. On the menu items list, menu-category items gain a Food cost column so you can scan your whole range at a glance.

Margins are colour-coded so problems stand out — healthy reads green, thin reads amber, a loss-maker reads red. Because the cost is derived from your ingredient library, the day a supplier price moves, every dish using that ingredient re-costs automatically.

A Bonus for AI Photos

If you generate AI images for your menu, a linked recipe makes them better: the ingredients and method feed into the image prompt, so a generated photo reflects what's actually in the dish, not just its name. See our article Allergens: Flag What Each Menu Item Contains and the AI Image Generation help topic for related settings.

New to the feature? Start with the Ingredients Library topic, then come back here. For the full overview see .