Try using the filters: on the RH side of the "my recipes" screen is a grey shaded box called "Filter by" .. you can check the box to restrict your ingredient search to dish type/ diet type/ ethnicity/ and in the ingredients you can filter by key ingredients, eg: type of fish etc.. then enter your key ingredient in the main "search for" recipe box - the more filters you apply the less recipes will be listed.
EYB has 1,634,104 recipes
so for example if I set the filters as below:
1. "recipe type"/ "dish type" "curry" - comes down to 17,199 recipes
2. "ingredients" / meat / chicken / chicken pieces - comes down to 3032 recipes
3. course / main/ - comes down to 2,900
And then searched for "hot curry powder" in my main search box -
I get only 6 recipes in all of EYB's 1,634,104 recipes
So its about narrowing search parameters!
Good luck!