Introducing Recipes in Masala Menu: Save, Plan and Track Nutrition

Update: TikTok links import too now, alongside blogs, YouTube and Instagram.

This is the biggest update since Masala Menu launched: a recipe library that’s connected to your planner. Save a recipe from the link you found it on, plan it into your week, and see roughly what each day adds up to.

It’s available in Masala Menu 4.0, on Android and iPhone. Here’s what’s new and how each part works.

Save a recipe from a link

Found a dish on a food blog, a YouTube video or an Instagram post? Copy the link, open Masala Menu, and paste it into Add a recipe. The title, photo, ingredients, method, servings, cooking time and nutrition fill in wherever the page publishes them.

A few things we cared about while building it:

• Your phone reads the page itself. There’s no server in the middle and no AI rewriting the recipe. What you get is what the creator wrote.
• Every recipe links back to its source. One tap takes you to the original video or post, so the creator always gets the credit.
• Your edits are yours. Change an amount, add a note, fix a step: nothing you edit is ever overwritten.
• Or type it in. Family recipes that only exist in someone’s head can be added by hand.

Organize it your way

• Tags. Give each recipe up to 10 tags, such as “weeknight”, “freezer” or “kids love it”. Use whatever words your household uses, and every recipe with that tag is one tap away.
• Groups, with Pro. File recipes into groups of your own, like folders: festival food, tiffin ideas, Sunday specials. A big collection stays tidy as it grows.
• Search. Find a recipe by its name or by an ingredient in it. Got paneer in the fridge? Search for it and see everything you can make.
• Filters. Narrow the list by cooking time, servings, calories or tag. “Something with paneer, under 30 minutes” is two taps.

From recipe to meal in one tap

The planner still works with meals, so the dish you plan and the way you cook it now live together. Attach a recipe to a meal once, and from then on you can plan that meal on any day, with the recipe one tap away while you cook.

Nutrition on the planner

Tracking your macros, or keeping an eye on what you eat? This one’s for you.

Ever wondered what Monday’s oatmeal, chicken salad and spaghetti and meatballs actually add up to? Now you can see it at a glance.

Every recipe can carry its nutrition per serving: calories, protein, carbs, fat, fiber and sugar. If the recipe’s page publishes it, Masala Menu picks it up when you save the link. If not, copy a nutrition panel from anywhere, paste it into one box, and each value lands in the right field. No typing numbers one by one.

Once your meals have recipes attached, a calorie chip appears beside each day on the planner. Tap it to see the day broken down meal by meal, with each planned meal counted as one serving of its recipe. A heavy Saturday or a light Wednesday is easy to spot before you’ve cooked a thing.

Upgrade to Pro for a better experience

The free plan gets you started with a limited number of recipes, and nutrition and daily totals are included. When your collection outgrows it, Pro unlocks everything:

• Unlimited recipes. Save every recipe you love, from every blog, Short and reel, with no cap on your collection.
• Recipe groups. Sort recipes into folders of your own, so festival food, tiffin ideas and weeknight dinners each have their place.
• Plan up to 4 weeks ahead. Map out a whole month of meals, perfect for festivals, guests or busy work weeks.
• Weekly grocery lists. Keep a list for each week with quantities, copy it to another week, and share it in one tap.
• Backup and restore. Your recipes, photos and plans come with you when you switch phones.
• Exclusive themes. Make the app look the way you like.

Masala Menu started as a planner for the meals you already cook (here’s the story). Now the dishes you’ve been meaning to try finally have a place on your table, right alongside your old favorites.