About Afoona – A Recipe Site with Search by Ingredient

About Afoona

Afoona was born from a question we all ask almost every evening: “What can I make tonight with what’s in the fridge?”

Afoona is a recipe site and a recipe search engine in Hebrew. Instead of finding a recipe and then discovering you’re missing half the ingredients, here you start with the ingredients: type in what you have at home — and get recipes you can make right now.

What You Can Do on Afoona

• Search by ingredient — chicken, sweet potato and garlic? You get every recipe that combines them. You can also exclude ingredients you don’t eat or don’t have.
• “In the fridge” mode — check off what’s in your fridge, and Afoona suggests recipes that match the list.
• Filter by diet and kashrut — vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy, meat, pareve, low-calorie and high-protein.
• Nutrition facts per serving — calories, protein, carbs and fat, calculated from each recipe’s ingredients and amounts.
• Shopping list and favorites — add ingredients to a shopping list with one click, and save the recipes you love.
• Search for several things at once — separate them with a comma: pasta, shakshuka returns pasta or shakshuka recipes.
• Ingredient substitutes — out of butter? No eggs left? The substitution pages have precise substitutes with amounts, for example substitutes for butter.
• A page for every ingredient — tips, nutrition facts, conversions (how many grams in a cup or a tablespoon) and how to store it, for example flour and conversions for powdered sugar.
• Tips inside the recipe — short, practical tips appear in the preparation steps, right where you need them.
• A page for every holiday — Rosh Hashanah, Hanukkah, Tu BiShvat, Purim, Passover, Shavuot and Shabbat dinner; when a holiday is coming up, a banner for it appears on the home page.
• Collections — recipes for parties, for kids, comfort food, grilling, winter soups and quick recipes.

Afoona’s Recipes

Alongside the search, Afoona publishes thousands of its own original recipes — homestyle Israeli, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cooking. Every recipe has precise amounts, numbered preparation steps, prep times and nutrition facts. The ideas for new recipes come from you: when you search for a dish that doesn’t have a recipe on Afoona yet, it goes on the list of upcoming recipes.

The original recipes are written with the help of artificial intelligence. You can rate any recipe with stars — your ratings help others choose what to make.

The photos in the original recipes come from free-license image libraries such as Pixabay and Wikimedia Commons, and wherever a photo requires credit, the photographer’s name appears next to it.

Recipes from the Leading Food Sites

Afoona also searches recipes from Israel’s leading food sites: mako, Foody, 2Eat, Walla, Kipa, 10 Dakot, Pirge, Sugat, Rotev and Cooks. For these recipes, the recipe name and ingredients are shown, and a click takes you to the full recipe on the original site — the credit and the recipe belong to them.

How to Get Started

Type the name of a dish (shakshuka, chocolate cake) or ingredients you have into the search bar, and filter by what suits you. You can also start from a category: Chicken · Meat · Fish · Salads · Soups · Cakes.

Contact Us

Have an idea, a comment or a missing recipe? Write to us on the Afoona! Recipes Facebook page.

How we work: who writes, where the numbers come from and what gets checked →

Before you cook: the labels on this site – dairy, meat, pareve, vegan, gluten-free and the like – are an automatic estimate from the recipe's ingredient list, not a certification or a kosher seal. Different products of the same kind (chocolate, margarine, bouillon powder, store-bought dough, sauces) can contain milk, gluten or animal ingredients. If you have a gluten sensitivity or an allergy, or keep kosher or eat vegan, check every ingredient and every product label yourself.

Terms of Use · Privacy Policy

Back to search