Meals
Recipes and importing from Paprika
Recipes is a shared cookbook. Add recipes by typing them, from a web page, or by scanning a cookbook page, and bring your whole Paprika collection over in one go. Open a recipe to scale it, put it on the week’s plan, or send its ingredients to the grocery list.
When to use it
- Saving a recipe you found online before the tab gets closed.
- Keeping the family recipes in one place both of you can reach.
- Moving off Paprika without retyping anything.
- Cooking, with big text and a screen that stays on.
Open Recipes
Phone
- Tap the Meals tab.
- Pick Recipes from the row of screens under the title.
Computer
- Click Meals on the app bar.
- Pick Recipes from the row across the top.
Add a recipe
- On Recipes, tap +.
- Pick one:
- Type it in: title, ingredients, steps and a photo.
- From a web link: paste a recipe page’s link and tap Add recipe. Tagged reads the recipe and its photo off the page.
- Scan a cookbook page: take a photo of up to 6 pages. Tagged reads them and opens the recipe for you to check before saving.
- Import from Paprika: every recipe at once (see below).
- When you type or check one, put each ingredient and each step on its own line. A step ending in “:” becomes a heading.
- Tap Save.
Note: From a web link works with recipe sites that publish their recipe in the standard format most do. If a page has nothing to read, type it in instead.
Import from Paprika
First, export from Paprika:
Phone
- In Paprika’s Recipes, tap Edit (or Select), then Select All.
- Tap the share button, then Export, then Paprika Recipe Format.
- Tap Save to Files.
Computer
- Open Paprika and click in the recipe list.
- Press Cmd+A (Ctrl+A on a PC) to select every recipe.
- Choose File, then Export, then Paprika Recipe Format, and save it.
Then bring it into Tagged:
- On Recipes, tap +, then Import from Paprika.
- Tap Choose file and pick the file. Its name ends in
.paprikarecipes. - Tagged shows how many recipes it found, and how many are already here and will be skipped.
- Tap Import (it shows the number, like Import 42) and keep the screen open until the bar finishes.
Photos, ratings and categories come along. Importing twice is safe; recipes already here are skipped.
Find a recipe
- Search by title, ingredient, category or source.
- Sort by A–Z, Newest or Top rated.
- Switch between Photos and List to see tiles or rows.
- With no search, recipes are grouped into chapters by category. Tap a category chip, or ♥ for favorites, to see just those.
Use a recipe
- Tap a recipe to open it.
- Tap ½×, 1×, 2× or 3× to scale the ingredients. Tap an ingredient to cross it off while you cook.
- Tap Cook for big text, with the screen kept on.
- Tap + Plan to put it on a day in the next two weeks, for a meal.
- Tap Groceries to put its ingredients (at the scale you picked) on the grocery list. Anything in the pantry is left off.
- Tap the stars to rate it, ♥ to make it a favorite, Share to send it as text, or Edit to change it.
Questions
Does Paprika’s export include my meal plans and grocery lists?
No. Paprika exports recipes only, so meal plans and grocery lists start fresh. Paste your pantry into Pantry.
Can I delete a recipe by mistake?
Delete recipe is in the recipe’s editor (tap Edit), and there’s an Undo right after. The recipe, its plan spots and its photo come back.
Still stuck? Send feedback from the ? menu at the bottom of the app bar on a computer. Back to the help center