Meals by main ingredient API

Find meals that use a given ingredient (e.g. chicken_breast, salmon, garlic) via TheMealDB (keyless, free), returning meal stubs with id, name, and thumbnail. Answers 'what can I make with chicken breast', 'meals using salmon', 'recipes with garlic', 'dishes containing rice'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/food-meal-by-ingredient

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

foodmealingredientrecipefilterthemealdbpantrycooking

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/food-meal-by-ingredient

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "ingredient": "chicken_breast"
}

Example response

{
  "ingredient": "chicken_breast",
  "count": 2,
  "meals": [
    {
      "id": "52772",
      "name": "Teriyaki Chicken Casserole",
      "thumbnail": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/media/meals/wvpsxx1468256321.jpg",
      "category": null,
      "area": null
    }
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "ingredient"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "ingredient": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "chicken_breast",
        "salmon"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}