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Importing from plain text is included in the free version of Souschef. Not every recipe comes with a nice URL. Family recipes handed down in a text message, notes from a cooking class, a copy-paste from an email newsletter, or a recipe you generated in ChatGPT or Claude — Souschef can turn all of these into structured recipes too. You can either paste the text and let Souschef’s AI do the extraction, or create a recipe entirely by hand.

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Paste recipe text

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Copy the recipe text

Copy the recipe from wherever you found it — a Notes app, a text message, a webpage, an email, anywhere.
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Open Souschef and tap '+'

Tap the + button on your library screen to start a new import.
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Choose 'Text'

Select Text from the import options and paste your copied recipe into the text field.Import Recipe screen with the Text option highlighted
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Let AI extract the recipe

Souschef’s AI reads the text and pulls out the title, ingredients, quantities, and step-by-step instructions — even if the original text was a messy paragraph.
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Edit and save

Review the extracted recipe. Tap any field to fix a typo, adjust a quantity, or add a missing step. Tap Save when you’re happy.
Paste as much or as little as you like. Even a single paragraph works — Souschef will do its best to structure it into ingredients and steps.

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Paste from ChatGPT or Claude

If you use ChatGPT, Claude, or another AI chat app to brainstorm meals, copy the recipe response and import it with Text. Souschef works best when the copied recipe includes a title, ingredients, servings, and step-by-step instructions.

See prompt ideas and the full guide

Learn how to ask AI for recipes based on expiring ingredients, pantry staples, leftovers, dietary preferences, or meal prep goals.

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Create a recipe manually

Prefer to type it out yourself? You can build a recipe from scratch, no source required.
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Tap '+' and choose 'Create'

From the import menu, choose Create to start with a blank recipe.Import Recipe screen with the Create option highlighted
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Fill in the details

Add a title, servings, prep and cook times, ingredients, and step-by-step instructions. Add a photo if you have one.Blank recipe editor with fields for title, time, servings, ingredients, and instructions
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Save it to your library

Tap Save. Your recipe is now in your collection, ready to cook, scale, add to your shopping list, and share — just like any imported recipe.
Recipes you create manually work with every Souschef feature: Cooking Mode, smart timers, serving adjustment, shopping lists, nutrition, AI tagging, and more.

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Editing before saving

Whether you pasted text or wrote a recipe yourself, everything is editable before you hit Save — and just as editable after. Tap any ingredient, step, quantity, or title to change it. There’s no wrong version to start from.

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Still need help?

Our team is always happy to assist — contact support.