Dish

A Dish is a composed food item that combines individual ingredients with other reusable recipes as sub-components. Unlike a simple recipe, a dish can include entire recipes as ingredients — enabling complex menu items like a Buddha Bowl that references a Hummus recipe.

What is a Dish in BetterMenu?

Like a recipe, a dish has a title, description, ingredients, and instructions. The key distinction is that a dish's ingredient list can reference entire sub-recipes — not just individual food items.

How does a Dish differ from a Recipe?

An example of a dish could be a Vegan Buddha Bowl that includes Quinoa, Roasted Chickpeas, Avocado, Hummus, and Tahini Dressing as ingredients. While the dish has individual ingredients such as Quinoa, Avocado, it includes other recipes such as Roasted Chickpeas, Hummus, and Tahini Dressing.

Why use Dishes instead of a single flat Recipe?

The benefit of using a dish is that it allows you to break down a complex recipe into smaller, manageable recipes. This way, you can reuse the smaller recipes in multiple dishes. For example,

• The Roasted Chickpeas recipe can be used in multiple dishes such as Vegan Buddha Bowl, Chickpea Salad, etc.
• The Hummus recipe can be used in multiple dishes such as Vegan Buddha Bowl, Hummus Wrap, etc.
• The Tahini Dressing recipe can be used in multiple dishes such as Vegan Buddha Bowl, Falafel Wrap, etc.