- recipe
- nounADJECTIVE▪ good▪ delicious, mouth-watering, tasty▪ healthy, low-fat▪
Each month we feature easy low-fat recipes.
▪ favourite/favorite▪ basic▪The basic recipe can be adapted by adding grated lemon peel.
▪ easy, simple▪ complicated▪ new▪I tried a new recipe and it was a great success.
▪ authentic, classic, old, original, traditional▪The ales are brewed to an original Yorkshire recipe.
▪ secret, special▪ family▪ vegetarian▪ Italian, Mexican, etc.▪ cake, sauce, etc.▪ perfect (usually figurative)▪It's the perfect recipe for business success.
▪ sure, sure-fire (both figurative)▪That sounds like a sure-fire recipe for disaster.
VERB + RECIPE▪ get, have▪I have a good recipe for fudge.
▪ give▪This is delicious—can you give me the recipe?
▪ cook, make, prepare▪This recipe can also be made with ricotta cheese.
▪ try, try out▪I enjoy trying out new recipes.
▪ read▪ follow, stick to, use▪If you want the dish to turn out right you should follow the recipe.
▪ adapt▪ create, devise▪All the recipes in the book have been devised by our team of experts.
▪ discover, find▪He is credited with having discovered the first recipe for gin back in the 1600s.
▪ share▪They talk and share their recipes.
▪ feature, offer, print, publish▪The website offers cocktail recipes and tips.
RECIPE + VERB▪ call for sth, require sth, use sth▪She always said that if a recipe calls for cream you shouldn't use yogurt instead.
▪ contain sth, include sth▪The recipe contains lots of fat.
▪ make sth, serve sb▪This recipe makes about thirty cookies.
▪This recipe serves four people.
RECIPE + NOUN▪ book, card▪ idea▪a magazine filled with recipe ideas
PREPOSITION▪ to a recipe▪The dish is made to a traditional Italian recipe.
▪ recipe for▪a recipe for leek soup
▪To live every day to the full is a recipe for happiness. (figurative)
PHRASES▪ a recipe for disaster, a recipe for success
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
