You are making a recipe search app without actually paying attention to the information retrieval part of it, which is arguably the most important thing! Using

You are making a recipe search app without actually paying attention to the information retrieval part of it, which is arguably the most important thing! Using any sort of backend that tokenizes (and why not, lowercases and stems) and does the searching for you is what you want as a first step. ES, or any of the newer fast search engines that aren't that concerned about relevance would be good first steps, then depending on how much you could grow, you're going to have quite tricky but enjoyable journey to optimizing for relevance!