Tandoor Recipe MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 1 179 installs a week from npm. Last commit 10 Nov 2026.
Recipes, meal plans, shopping lists and more for your local or self-hosted Tandoor instance.
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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add tandoor-recipe-mcp -e 'TANDOOR_URL=<TANDOOR_URL>' -e 'TANDOOR_TOKEN=<TANDOOR_TOKEN>' -- npx -y @cliftonz/tandoor-recipes-mcp{
"mcpServers": {
"tandoor-recipe-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@cliftonz/tandoor-recipes-mcp"
],
"env": {
"TANDOOR_TOKEN": "<TANDOOR_TOKEN>",
"TANDOOR_URL": "<TANDOOR_URL>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.tandoor-recipe-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@cliftonz/tandoor-recipes-mcp"]
env = { TANDOOR_URL = "<TANDOOR_URL>", TANDOOR_TOKEN = "<TANDOOR_TOKEN>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"tandoor-recipe-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@cliftonz/tandoor-recipes-mcp"
],
"env": {
"TANDOOR_TOKEN": "<TANDOOR_TOKEN>",
"TANDOOR_URL": "<TANDOOR_URL>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"tandoor-recipe-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@cliftonz/tandoor-recipes-mcp"
],
"env": {
"TANDOOR_TOKEN": "<TANDOOR_TOKEN>",
"TANDOOR_URL": "<TANDOOR_URL>"
}
}
}
}Put your own values in place of
<TANDOOR_URL> (Base URL of your Tandoor instance (e.g. https://tandoor.example.com)), <TANDOOR_TOKEN> (Tandoor API token with write access, from Settings > API Tokens).
The author’s registry entry marks them as required.
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