Component recipes allow you to include one recipe within another. For example, you might want to include a link to a Pesto recipe inside your Lemon pesto penne recipe.
Behavior
All recipes may be used as component recipes, there is no difference between them.
Meal plan - If a recipe which has component recipes, is included on a meal plan...
The component recipe pages will be included when the meal plan is exported to a PDF.
The component recipes' ingredients will be included on the shopping list inside the app, and when the meal plan is exported to PDF. The ingredients will be for a single preparation of the component recipe, even if the component recipe is included on several parent recipes.
If the serving size of the parent recipe is modified, its component recipes remain unchanged.
The component recipes' prep aheads will be included
If a parent recipe is added to a meal plan twice
Its component recipe ingredients will be doubled
Its component recipe prep aheads remain for a single prep of the recipe
Nutritional values do not roll-up from a component recipe into its parent.
When exporting a recipe to PDF, any component recipes will also be included.
Adding component recipes
Kitchen prep > Select recipe > Edit
While creating or editing a recipe, you can select as many component recipes as you'd like. Simple Add component recipe and search by recipe title and select. Make sure to save the parent recipe.
