Recipe Schema: Get Your Recipes into Google's Recipe Rich Results
Recipe schema is the richest, most visual schema type Google displays. Cooking time, calories, star ratings, ingredient lists, serving size, and photos all appear directly in search results โ before the user even clicks. For food blogs and recipe sites, it's essential.
Food blogs without recipe schema are invisible in Google
Google's recipe results are among the most visual, high-engagement placements in all of search. The recipe carousel, recipe knowledge panel, and recipe-filtered results all require Recipe schema to participate. Without it, your recipes are plain blue links competing against visually rich results.
Recipe schema is also one of the most complex schema types to implement correctly. It requires over 15 fields โ including ingredients, instructions, nutrition facts, cooking method, recipe yield, and dietary restrictions. The AI Overview Schema generator fills all of them automatically from your recipe content.
Google AI Overviews also actively cite recipe sources in response to cooking queries โ and pages with complete Recipe schema including 5+ FAQ pairs about the recipe see dramatically higher citation rates.
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Recipe",
"name": "Classic Pasta Carbonara",
"image": "https://yoursite.com/carbonara.jpg",
"author": {"@type": "Person", "name": "Jamie"},
"datePublished": "2026-04-01",
"description": "Authentic Italian carbonara...",
"prepTime": "PT20M",
"cookTime": "PT15M",
"totalTime": "PT35M",
"recipeYield": "4 servings",
"recipeCategory": "Pasta",
"recipeCuisine": "Italian",
"nutrition": {
"@type": "NutritionInformation",
"calories": "487 calories"
},
"recipeIngredient": [
"400g spaghetti",
"200g pancetta",
"4 large eggs"
],
"recipeInstructions": [
{
"@type": "HowToStep",
"text": "Boil pasta in salted water..."
}
]
}Get your recipes into Google's visual recipe results
Recipe schema is included free. AI Generator fills all 15+ fields automatically from your recipe content.