How to Find Recipes by Cuisine with Copilot
Cuisine-based recipe search in your IDE with Copilot and ToolRouter. International recipes for developers.
Tool
Copilot returns cuisine-tagged recipe results as structured data for building browsing and discovery features. Generate cuisine-specific collections for your recipe app, create recommendation systems that diversify meal suggestions across world cuisines, and populate content with properly tagged international recipes.
Connect ToolRouter to Copilot
1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool
2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details
Server name
ToolRouterServer description
Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.Server URL
https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp3Set Authentication to None and click Create
Steps
Once connected (see setup above), use the Recipe Finder tool:
- In Copilot Chat: "Search for Italian pasta recipes using recipe-finder"
- Copilot returns matching recipes
- Ask: "Return these as JSON with cuisine tags for my recipe app"
- Use the cuisine-tagged data in your application
Example Prompt
Try this with Copilot using the Recipe Finder tool
Search for Mediterranean recipes and return results as JSON with cuisine, difficulty, cook time, and ingredients.
Tips
- Build cuisine-based browsing features for your recipe app
- Generate cuisine collections automatically from search results
- Use cuisine data to create recommendation systems that diversify meal suggestions