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Recipes
Publish recipes with ingredients, steps and nutrition, ready for Google's recipe results.
Each recipe is a Markdown file in src/content/recipes/. The file name becomes its address: berry-overnight-oats.md is published at /recipes/berry-overnight-oats/.
---
title: Berry & banana overnight oats
description: Five minutes the night before, and breakfast is ready.
date: 2026-09-18
cover: ../../assets/art/recipe-oats.svg
coverAlt: A bowl of overnight oats topped with berries
category: Breakfast
diet: [Vegetarian, Gut-friendly]
prepTime: 5
cookTime: 0
servings: 1
calories: 380
nutrition: { protein: 16 g, carbs: 54 g, fat: 10 g, fibre: 9 g }
featured: true
ingredients:
- 50 g rolled oats
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
steps:
- Stir the oats, chia seeds and milk together.
- Leave in the fridge overnight.
---
A short introduction, tips or swaps, in normal Markdown.| Field | Required | What it does |
|---|---|---|
title, description |
Yes | Name and a one- or two-sentence description. |
date |
Yes | Publication date, YYYY-MM-DD. Newest recipes come first. |
cover, coverAlt |
Yes / No | The recipe image, relative to the file, and its description. |
category |
Yes | For example Breakfast. Each category gets its own page and filter button. |
diet |
No | Labels such as Vegetarian, Gluten-free or High protein. |
prepTime, cookTime |
Yes / No | Minutes. The total is worked out for you. |
servings |
Yes | Number of servings. |
calories |
No | Calories per serving. |
nutrition |
No | protein, carbs, fat and optionally fibre, per serving, as text such as 16 g. |
ingredients |
Yes | One line per ingredient. Visitors can tick them off while cooking. |
steps |
Yes | One entry per step. They’re numbered automatically. |
featured |
No | true puts the recipe on the home page first. |
draft |
No | true hides the recipe, except in npm run dev. |
The text after the frontmatter appears between the recipe heading and the recipe card: use it for the story, tips and swaps.
Categories
Category pages are created automatically from the category of your recipes, for example /recipes/category/breakfast/. To add a category, just use a new name in a recipe.
Google recipe results
Every recipe page includes Recipe structured data: ingredients, steps, times, servings and nutrition. This lets Google show your recipes with an image, rating and cook time in search. Google needs a photo for this, so use a JPG, PNG or WebP cover rather than an illustration once you have your own photography. You can test a page with Google’s Rich Results Test.
Printing
The Print recipe button prints a clean version of the recipe, without the menu, footer and extra sections.