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Not absolutely understanding the question. I typed Tomato into my recipe search and got 17,000 plus results. That is effectively an ingredient search.

It's under Salad.

Out of interest, I tried a quick search test for "cherry tomatoes" and got a full list of recipes specific to cherry tomatoes.

Most ingredients can be filtered using the search filters in the right column (or under Filter on a phone). As wester says, tomatoes are under Ingredients / Vegetables / Salad (and yes, we know tomatoes are a fruit but we try to make the search intuitive). Using filters is more accurate than a word search as words can appear in author names, book titles, linked ingredients etc that then give unexpected recxipes in the search results.

That one threw me in the past too.  I suppose it was thought mostly used in salads when EYB started?  Another one that stumps me is soy beans.  Not cooked fresh soy beans like edamame.  

Agaillard - as a long-time member and regular user of EYB, how do you think we can best get across to members about features of EYB that they may be missing? The ingredient and category filters on EYB search is a very fundamental one that we would want all members to be aware of. We have tutorials, accessed from the green Need Help? button at bottom right (not available on phones). We have a huge Help section as well. Jenny does useful tips periodically in the blog and emails. There is a pinned blog post on the Home Page "Ideas on how to make EYB work better for you". But if members aren't looking at those then how else?

Also I find — as documented in several of my forum posts here — the categories, organisation, and selection of said filters to be counter-intuitive.

Further I do not like having to shift my eye gaze from the search criteria entry box which is near the top of the page to the bottom right to fiddle with filter settings. This causes an increase in what Sperber and Wilson, and Ernst-Augut Gutt call cognitive load. It interupts my chain of thought. Interuptions increased by having to open filter categories. The current system is hard to use as a result.

My personal prefernce would be to type searches like these analagous to the advanced search features of Google or DuckDuckGo

"ingredient:tomatoes"

"recipe-for:condensed milk" (as opposed to it being an ingredient)

rather than fiddle about taking my fingers off the keyboard — I touch type —, striping my gaze from the text box, find the mouse, waggle it around to locate and move the cursor to the bottom right descend through a heirarchy of options to locate what I want. The end result often that I forget what it is I am trying to do.

That is very useful actually because indeed it will avoid me having to filter all the non pepper vegetable recipes for example, manually adding several minus signs