Recipe Schema Generator

Is Recipe markup eligible for a Google rich result?

Recipe markup can make a recipe eligible for a rich result with image, rating, cooking time and calories, and for the recipe carousel. Google requires a name and an image.

Status verified on 24 September 2026. Google’s documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/recipe

About Recipe structured data

Recipe is one of the structured data types that Google displays most richly: a result can show a photo, a star rating, the cooking time and the calories, and eligible recipes can appear in a carousel. That makes complete, accurate markup worthwhile.

Where a recipe has a video, marking it up as a VideoObject inside the Recipe can help. Keep the markup a faithful summary of the page: ingredients and steps should be what visitors read.

Common Recipe schema mistakes

• Writing durations in plain text such as “1 hour 30 minutes”. Times must be ISO 8601 durations: PT1H30M. PT20M is twenty minutes.
• Adding calories without servings. Calories are per serving, so Google needs recipeYield to interpret the number.
• Listing the ingredients or steps in the markup but not on the page. Everything in the markup should be visible to visitors.
• Using one long block of text for the instructions. Splitting it into HowToStep entries makes each step clear.
• Marking up something that is not a recipe — a restaurant menu, a list of recipes on a category page, or a general cooking article.
• Adding ratings that visitors cannot see, or that you wrote yourself.

Recipe schema example

A complete recipe with two images, six ingredients, four steps, times, calories and a rating, as generated on this page, is shown below.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Recipe",
  "name": "Chicken Karahi",
  "image": [
    "https://example.com/img/chicken-karahi-16x9.jpg",
    "https://example.com/img/chicken-karahi-1x1.jpg"
  ],
  "author": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Amina Rahman"
  },
  "datePublished": "2026-02-10",
  "description": "A quick, tomato-based karahi with ginger, green chilli and fresh coriander.",
  "prepTime": "PT20M",
  "cookTime": "PT40M",
  "recipeYield": "4 servings",
  "recipeCategory": "Dinner",
  "recipeCuisine": "Pakistani",
  "keywords": "chicken, karahi, one-pot",
  "recipeIngredient": [
    "1 kg chicken, cut into pieces",
    "6 ripe tomatoes, chopped",
    "3 tbsp oil",
    "2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste",
    "4 green chillies",
    "Fresh coriander to serve"
  ],
  "recipeInstructions": [
    {
      "@type": "HowToStep",
      "text": "Heat the oil in a wok and fry the ginger-garlic paste for one minute."
    },
    {
      "@type": "HowToStep",
      "text": "Add the chicken and cook on high heat until it changes colour."
    },
    {
      "@type": "HowToStep",
      "text": "Add the tomatoes and chillies, cover and cook for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally."
    },
    {
      "@type": "HowToStep",
      "text": "Finish with coriander and serve hot."
    }
  ],
  "nutrition": {
    "@type": "NutritionInformation",
    "calories": "320 calories"
  },
  "aggregateRating": {
    "@type": "AggregateRating",
    "ratingValue": 4.8,
    "ratingCount": 210
  }
}