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Included in Free plan 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 — 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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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.