Koskamo

Food Recipe MCP

A production-grade semantic search server for food recipes built for AI agents using the Model Context Protocol. It searches across 50,000+ recipes with hybrid dense and sparse retrieval and cross-encoder reranking, supporting natural language queries in Norwegian and English.

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Food Recipe MCP logo, by AIDataNordicCommunity listingStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-06Published by AIDataNordic
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp
Vendor documentation

What its tools do

2 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.

Read-only (2)

2 of 2 have a description · 2 of 2 declare behavior hints · 2 of 2 with parameters document them all

Checks and signals

Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.

  • Passed Endpoint answered the live check ·
  • Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days

What you can do with it

  • Search for recipes using natural language queries
  • Filter recipes by diet, cooking time, and difficulty
  • Retrieve detailed recipe information including ingredients and nutrition

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 1.0.1
mcp-registry: io.github.AIDataNordic/food-recipe-mcp@1.0.1Source repository
Maintenance checked

Protocol and capabilities

Server
recipe-mcp 3.2.0
MCP protocol negotiated in check
2025-11-25
Tools
2 advertised
Resources
0 advertised
Resource templates
0 advertised
Prompts
0 advertised
Server-advertised capabilities
{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": true
  },
  "logging": {},
  "prompts": {
    "listChanged": true
  },
  "resources": {
    "subscribe": false,
    "listChanged": true
  },
  "extensions": {
    "io.modelcontextprotocol/ui": {}
  },
  "experimental": {}
}

Tools

2 advertised

ping
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Simple connectivity test. Returns a greeting to confirm the server is running.

ping input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "default": "world",
      "description": "Arbitrary label included in the response, e.g. 'healthcheck'"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
ping output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "result"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "result": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "description": "Generic wrapper for non-object return types.",
  "x-fastmcp-wrap-result": true
}
ping annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true
}
search_recipes
Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.
Advertised read-only

Search a database of recipes using hybrid semantic search (dense + sparse) with reranking. The database contains ~50,000 recipes from Food.com covering a wide range of cuisines, meal types, and cooking styles. Recipes include nutritional information, difficulty ratings, and user ratings. Use natural language in the query to describe what you are looking for — cuisine, style, main ingredient, occasion, or mood all work well. Norwegian and English are both supported natively. Examples: 'quick Italian pasta for weeknight dinner' 'Swedish meatballs with gravy' 'healthy high-protein chicken bowl' 'easy chocolate cake for beginners' 'something with salmon and lemon' 'Indian curry chicken' 'traditional Norwegian kjøttkaker' 'hurtig pasta med kylling' 'enkel sjokoladekake' Args: query: What you are looking for — describe the dish, cuisine, main ingredient, cooking style or mood freely. Any language is supported. diet: Optional — filter by dietary requirement: 'vegetarian', 'vegan', 'gluten-free', 'dairy-free', 'low-carb', 'keto', 'paleo' max_minutes: Optional — maximum total time in minutes, e.g. 30 difficulty: Optional — 'easy', 'medium' or 'hard' servings: Optional — not used for filtering (servings vary), but include in query for scaling context, e.g. 'pasta dish for 6 people' limit: Number of results to return after reranking (default 5, max 20) Returns: List of recipes ranked by relevance. Each result includes rerank_score, rrf_score (hybrid fusion), title, total_time, difficulty, diet labels, ingredients, instructions, nutrition, rating, and source URL context.

search_recipes input schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "diet": {
      "type": "string",
      "default": "",
      "description": "Optional dietary filter: vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, low-carb, keto, or paleo"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 5,
      "description": "Number of results to return after reranking (1–20, default 5)"
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Natural language description of what you want, e.g. 'quick Italian pasta' or 'enkel sjokoladekake'"
    },
    "servings": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 0,
      "description": "Not used for filtering — include serving size context in query instead, e.g. 'pasta for 6 people'"
    },
    "difficulty": {
      "type": "string",
      "default": "",
      "description": "Optional difficulty filter: easy, medium, or hard"
    },
    "max_minutes": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 0,
      "description": "Optional maximum total cooking time in minutes, e.g. 30. Use 0 for no limit"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
search_recipes output schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "result"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "result": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "additionalProperties": true
      }
    }
  },
  "description": "Generic wrapper for non-object return types.",
  "x-fastmcp-wrap-result": true
}
search_recipes annotations
{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false
}

Prompts

0 advertised

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

0 advertised

No resource definitions available.

90-day uptime

A lightweight connection check about every six hours, sampled on hosts with many listings. It shows the server answered, not that its tools work.

Too few checks for a percentage yet (1 of 1 answered).

  1. 2026-11-07: 1 of 1 checks answered

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
1455 ms
95th percentile latency
1455 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 1455 ms · metadata changed · 2 tool(s), 0 resource(s), 0 resource template(s), 0 prompt(s)

Connect from your client

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http food-recipe-mcp https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add food-recipe-mcp --url https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable food-recipe-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "food-recipe-mcp": {
      "url": "https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "food-recipe-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start food-recipe-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "food-recipe-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http food-recipe-mcp https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp

Claude Desktop

Open Claude Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector, enter this server URL and enable it for the conversation. This is a manual remote-connector handoff, not a desktop JSON configuration.
Claude Desktop configuration
https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "food-recipe-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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