How Do I Create a Recipe?

Steps and tips for creating recipes

Published on 11/02/2022Hind Andaloussi
Par · Cofondateur de Melba

Here are the steps and tips for creating simple recipe databases

Access the recipes by clicking on the Recipes section in the Main Menu

Click on the Create a recipe floating button accessible via the + " at the bottom left.

Recipes are created in two steps.

  • The basic identification criteria of the recipe
  • Completion with different production, purchase, sale, stock and traceability information

A first modal invites to:

  1. Fill in the designation
  2. Select  category
  3. Enter the internal code
  4. Select portioning rule
  5. Validate by clicking on  Create recipe

Relevant identification of a recipe

The creation of a recipe goes through the correct name of the latter. The goal is that you can find it easily among a more or less long list of items.

It is advisable to make maximum use of the “photo” function allowing you to associate a recipe with a photo. This makes it easier to visualize and implement the dressing of your dishes, especially in the context of collaborative work. To add a photo, click on the gray box showing an illustration and select the file chosen to illustrate the recipe.

Recipe portioning

When you create a recipe, you can choose whether your recipe includes portions or not.

A serving is a fraction of the recipe. 

Three options are then available. You can determine:

  • The number of servings in a recipe. In this case, the weight of a portion is calculated automatically in relation to the final weight of your recipe.  *For example: You create a recipe for raspberry pie. This pie makes 6 portions. If, during the production of this recipe, the total net weight of the incorporated ingredients is 900g, the weight of a serving is then automatically calculated. In this case, the portion is 150g.  *
  • The weight or volume of a serving. In this case the weight of a serving is totally independent of the final weight of your recipe but the number of servings per recipe will be calculated automatically.  *For example: You are creating a recipe for a fruit salad with raspberries. You sell this raspberry salad in a 200 gram jar. Whatever the total weight of your initial recipe, the weight of your portion remains unchanged. If I decide to produce 6kg from my recipe, I know I will be able to serve 30 servings.
  • No portion for this recipe , the portion unit is not created.

The configuration of the portions of a recipe can be edited in the recipe data sheet. To modify it, you must:

  1. Click on the recipe data sheet

  2. Click on the main information block

  3. Make portioning changes