Recipes are the backbone of an operation, and opsi was built to manage your recipe book in a simple and familiar way. Below you will find the features that make up recipes on opsi.
Recipe Hierarchy
Categories: The category that recipes will fall within (ex. Appetizers, Entrees, Garde Manger, etc.). You can create and manage your categories the way you want, and also use them as recipe books!
Recipes: The main level of a dish. This includes all information for that dish including ingredients, component recipes, prep methods and additional supporting recipe details.
Component Recipes (sub recipes): Items of a recipe (ex. garlic aioli or cocktail sauce) which also contain their own ingredients and prep methods.
Ingredients: Items of a recipe that do not include their own prep method information (ex. salt or bay leaf).
Examples of completed recipe hierarchy:
Entree (category)
Lamb Apricot (recipe)
Lamb (component recipe)
Potatoes (component recipe)
Apricot Jus (component recipe)
Salt (ingredient)
Cold Salads (category)
Endive Salad (recipe)
Endive (ingredient)
Cider Vinaigrette (component recipe)
Celery (ingredient)
Granny Smith Apples (ingredient)
Spice Toasted Pecans (component recipe)
Blue Cheese (ingredient)
Maldon Salt (ingredient)
Recipe Fields
General Details
Name, Category, Yield, Shelf Life, Lead Time, Price on Menu, Cost of Recipe Allergies, Notes, Menu Wording, Marking, Delivery Verbiage, Beverage Pairing
Ingredients & Prep
Component Recipes, Ingredients, Prep Instructions (prep steps)
*Component Recipes and Ingredients, when listed within a recipe, can each contain a prep method, quantity, unit of measurement and notes.
Media
Photos and Videos
Read next: Create a recipe category