diff --git a/apps/web/cypress/e2e/cooking-session-page.cy.ts b/apps/web/cypress/e2e/cooking-session-page.cy.ts
index 22ac292..f3312c0 100644
--- a/apps/web/cypress/e2e/cooking-session-page.cy.ts
+++ b/apps/web/cypress/e2e/cooking-session-page.cy.ts
@@ -186,6 +186,28 @@ function setupPlanFixture() {
   };
 }
 
+/**
+ * Minimal `RecipeView` detail for one of `planFixture()`'s recipes — just
+ * enough (name/portions/one step) to prove the right recipe's own detail
+ * rendered inline, not a full catalog-style fixture.
+ */
+function recipeDetail(id: number, name: string, portions: number, stepDescription: string) {
+  return {
+    id,
+    name,
+    description: null,
+    picture: null,
+    portions,
+    authorId: 1,
+    visibility: "PERSONAL",
+    allergens: [],
+    diets: [],
+    isFavorite: false,
+    ingredients: [],
+    steps: [{ id: 1, description: stepDescription, picture: null, order: 1, techSteps: [] }],
+  };
+}
+
 describe("Cooking session page", () => {
   beforeEach(() => {
     cy.viewport(1400, 900);
@@ -287,25 +309,59 @@ describe("Cooking session page", () => {
     cy.get(".cooking-stepper__node").first().should("have.class", "cooking-stepper__node--done");
   });
 
-  it("lists the week's recipes on the Recettes tab, each linking to its own page", () => {
+  it("lists the week's recipes on the Recettes tab, each showing its portions", () => {
     cy.intercept("GET", /\/cooking-session\?/, { statusCode: 200, body: planFixture() });
     cy.visit("/cuisiner?date=2026-08-17");
 
     cy.contains(".cooking-session-page__tab", "Recettes").click();
 
     cy.get(".cooking-recipes__item").should("have.length", 2);
-    cy.contains(".cooking-recipes__item", "Soupe à l'oignon")
-      .find("a")
-      .should("have.attr", "href", "/recettes/1");
-    cy.contains(".cooking-recipes__item", "Tarte à l'oignon")
-      .should("contain.text", "6 portions")
-      .find("a")
-      .should("have.attr", "href", "/recettes/2");
+    cy.contains(".cooking-recipes__item", "Soupe à l'oignon").should("be.visible");
+    cy.contains(".cooking-recipes__item", "Tarte à l'oignon").should("contain.text", "6 portions");
 
     // The stepper isn't part of this tab.
     cy.get(".cooking-stepper").should("not.exist");
   });
 
+  it("expands a recipe's detail inline on the Recettes tab instead of navigating away", () => {
+    cy.intercept("GET", /\/cooking-session\?/, { statusCode: 200, body: planFixture() });
+    cy.intercept("GET", "**/recipes/1", {
+      statusCode: 200,
+      body: recipeDetail(1, "Soupe à l'oignon", 4, "Émincer les oignons."),
+    }).as("getSoupe");
+    cy.intercept("GET", "**/recipes/2", {
+      statusCode: 200,
+      body: recipeDetail(2, "Tarte à l'oignon", 6, "Étaler la pâte."),
+    }).as("getTarte");
+    cy.visit("/cuisiner?date=2026-08-17");
+    cy.contains(".cooking-session-page__tab", "Recettes").click();
+
+    // Nothing unfolded yet, and no more link out to the catalog page —
+    // clicking a row is what unfolds it now.
+    cy.get(".cooking-recipes").find("a").should("not.exist");
+    cy.get(".cooking-recipes__detail").should("not.exist");
+
+    cy.contains(".cooking-recipes__row", "Soupe à l'oignon").click();
+    cy.wait("@getSoupe");
+    cy.location("pathname").should("eq", "/cuisiner"); // no navigation happened
+    cy.get(".cooking-recipes__detail .recipe-detail-panel").within(() => {
+      cy.contains("h2", "Soupe à l'oignon").should("be.visible");
+      cy.contains("Émincer les oignons.").should("be.visible");
+    });
+
+    // Only one recipe unfolds at a time — opening Tarte's closes Soupe's.
+    cy.contains(".cooking-recipes__row", "Tarte à l'oignon").click();
+    cy.wait("@getTarte");
+    cy.get(".cooking-recipes__detail").should("have.length", 1);
+    cy.get(".cooking-recipes__detail .recipe-detail-panel")
+      .should("contain.text", "Étaler la pâte.")
+      .and("not.contain.text", "Émincer");
+
+    // Clicking the open one again collapses it back.
+    cy.contains(".cooking-recipes__row", "Tarte à l'oignon").click();
+    cy.get(".cooking-recipes__detail").should("not.exist");
+  });
+
   it("renders a merged-setup preheat with its temperature and the oven-conflict note", () => {
     cy.intercept("GET", /\/cooking-session\?/, { statusCode: 200, body: setupPlanFixture() });
     cy.visit("/cuisiner?date=2026-08-17");
diff --git a/apps/web/cypress/e2e/cooking-session.feature b/apps/web/cypress/e2e/cooking-session.feature
index 13a09ee..892d6c3 100644
--- a/apps/web/cypress/e2e/cooking-session.feature
+++ b/apps/web/cypress/e2e/cooking-session.feature
@@ -52,8 +52,16 @@ Feature: Start cooking an optimized plan
     When I visit "/cuisiner?date=2026-08-17"
     And I open the "Recettes" cooking tab
     Then I should see "Soupe à l'oignon"
-    And the recipe "Soupe à l'oignon" should link to "/recettes/1"
-    And the recipe "Tarte à l'oignon" should link to "/recettes/2"
+
+  Scenario: Clicking a recipe on the Recettes tab unfolds it instead of navigating away
+    Given the planning for this week has recipes "Soupe à l'oignon" and "Tarte à l'oignon"
+    And the cooking plan for "2026-08-17" has a mise en place then a cooking step
+    And recipe 1's detail is available
+    When I visit "/cuisiner?date=2026-08-17"
+    And I open the "Recettes" cooking tab
+    And I click the recipe "Soupe à l'oignon"
+    Then the recipe detail "Soupe à l'oignon" should be expanded
+    And the URL should include "/cuisiner"
 
   Scenario: Two recipes preheat the oven to different temperatures
     Given the planning for this week has recipes "Gratin" and "Rôti"
diff --git a/apps/web/cypress/e2e/cooking-session.ts b/apps/web/cypress/e2e/cooking-session.ts
index a6d493f..3040b38 100644
--- a/apps/web/cypress/e2e/cooking-session.ts
+++ b/apps/web/cypress/e2e/cooking-session.ts
@@ -249,6 +249,39 @@ Then("the current cooking step should be {string}", (position: string) => {
   cy.contains(".cooking-plan__position", position).should("be.visible");
 });
 
-Then("the recipe {string} should link to {string}", (name: string, href: string) => {
-  cy.contains(".cooking-recipes__item", name).find("a").should("have.attr", "href", href);
+Given("recipe 1's detail is available", () => {
+  // Minimal `RecipeView` — just enough (name + one step) to prove the
+  // right recipe's own detail unfolded inline.
+  cy.intercept("GET", "**/recipes/1", {
+    statusCode: 200,
+    body: {
+      id: 1,
+      name: "Soupe à l'oignon",
+      description: null,
+      picture: null,
+      portions: 4,
+      authorId: 1,
+      visibility: "PERSONAL",
+      allergens: [],
+      diets: [],
+      isFavorite: false,
+      ingredients: [],
+      steps: [
+        { id: 1, description: "Émincer les oignons.", picture: null, order: 1, techSteps: [] },
+      ],
+    },
+  });
+});
+
+// The task card is a `<label>` wrapping a visually-hidden checkbox — see
+// "I tick the cooking task" above; a recipe row is a plain `<button>`,
+// clicked the same straightforward way.
+When("I click the recipe {string}", (name: string) => {
+  cy.contains(".cooking-recipes__row", name).click();
+});
+
+Then("the recipe detail {string} should be expanded", (name: string) => {
+  cy.get(".cooking-recipes__detail .recipe-detail-panel").within(() => {
+    cy.contains("h2", name).should("be.visible");
+  });
 });
diff --git a/apps/web/src/locales/fr/translation.json b/apps/web/src/locales/fr/translation.json
index 5e72328..052cb64 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/locales/fr/translation.json
+++ b/apps/web/src/locales/fr/translation.json
@@ -361,8 +361,7 @@
       "sharedBadge": "Mutualisé"
     },
     "recipesTab": {
-      "portions": "{{n}} portions",
-      "viewRecipe": "Voir la recette"
+      "portions": "{{n}} portions"
     }
   },
   "account": {
diff --git a/apps/web/src/pages/cooking-session/CookingSessionPage.tsx b/apps/web/src/pages/cooking-session/CookingSessionPage.tsx
index 121ea0a..79f119f 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/pages/cooking-session/CookingSessionPage.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/src/pages/cooking-session/CookingSessionPage.tsx
@@ -1,17 +1,22 @@
 import { DateTime, formatDateOnly, getWeekStart, parseDateOnly } from "@batch-cooking/date-tools";
-import type {
-  CookingBackgroundTaskView,
-  CookingPhaseView,
-  CookingSessionRecipeRef,
-  CookingTaskView,
-  OptimizedCookingPlanView,
+import {
+  type CookingBackgroundTaskView,
+  type CookingPhaseView,
+  type CookingSessionRecipeRef,
+  type CookingTaskView,
+  ErrorCode,
+  type OptimizedCookingPlanView,
 } from "@batch-cooking/shared";
 import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
-import { Link, useSearchParams } from "react-router-dom";
-import { apiClient } from "../../api/client";
+import { useSearchParams } from "react-router-dom";
+import { ApiError, apiClient } from "../../api/client";
 import { CheckboxOption } from "../../components/ui/Checkbox";
 import { WeekNavigator } from "../../features/planning/WeekNavigator";
+import {
+  RecipeDetailPanel,
+  type RecipeDetailState,
+} from "../../features/recipes/RecipeDetailPanel";
 import { cookingProgress } from "./cooking-progress";
 import {
   groupTasksByRecipes,
@@ -33,7 +38,8 @@ type CookingSessionState =
  * Which panel of the cooking view is showing:
  * - `"plan"` (default) — the step-by-step cooking plan, one phase at a time.
  * - `"recipes"` — the flat list of the week's planned recipes, for a quick
- *   "what am I even making" glance / a jump to a recipe's own page.
+ *   "what am I even making" glance — each one expands inline on click (see
+ *   `RecipesTab`) rather than navigating to its own page.
  */
 type CookingTab = "plan" | "recipes";
 
@@ -125,15 +131,63 @@ export function CookingSessionPage() {
           // from localStorage and resets the stepper to its first phase.
           <PlanTab key={weekKey} plan={state.plan} weekKey={weekKey} />
         ) : (
-          <RecipesTab recipes={state.plan.recipes} />
+          // Keyed by week too, so switching weeks collapses whichever
+          // recipe was unfolded rather than leaving a now-unrelated detail
+          // panel open.
+          <RecipesTab key={weekKey} recipes={state.plan.recipes} />
         ))}
     </div>
   );
 }
 
-/** The "Recettes" tab — the week's planned recipes as a flat list, each linking to its own page. */
+/**
+ * The "Recettes" tab — the week's planned recipes as a flat list. Clicking
+ * one no longer navigates to `/recettes/:id`: it unfolds that recipe's full
+ * detail inline (fetched on demand, same {@link RecipeDetailPanel} as the
+ * catalog's own master-detail view, `showActions` off since managing the
+ * recipe isn't the point of a quick glance mid-cooking) — same
+ * one-open-at-a-time behavior as the sidebar's own collapsible sections
+ * (`AppLayout`'s `SettingsMenu`).
+ */
 function RecipesTab({ recipes }: { recipes: readonly CookingSessionRecipeRef[] }) {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
+  // Which recipe (by id) is currently unfolded — `null` when none is.
+  // Single value rather than a Set: only one recipe's detail shows at a
+  // time, collapsing whichever was open before.
+  const [expandedId, setExpandedId] = useState<number | null>(null);
+  const [detailState, setDetailState] = useState<RecipeDetailState>({ status: "empty" });
+
+  // Mirrors `RecipesPage`'s own fetch-on-select effect: fires on every
+  // `expandedId` change (including re-expanding a recipe already seen this
+  // visit — no cache, same recompute-over-cache stance as the rest of this
+  // page) and ignores a response that arrives after the viewer has already
+  // moved on (`cancelled`).
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (expandedId === null) {
+      setDetailState({ status: "empty" });
+      return;
+    }
+    let cancelled = false;
+    setDetailState({ status: "loading" });
+
+    apiClient
+      .getRecipe(expandedId)
+      .then((recipe) => {
+        if (!cancelled) setDetailState({ status: "loaded", recipe });
+      })
+      .catch((err) => {
+        if (cancelled) return;
+        if (err instanceof ApiError && err.code === ErrorCode.RECIPE_NOT_FOUND) {
+          setDetailState({ status: "not-found" });
+        } else {
+          setDetailState({ status: "error" });
+        }
+      });
+
+    return () => {
+      cancelled = true;
+    };
+  }, [expandedId]);
 
   if (recipes.length === 0) {
     return <p className="cooking-session-page__status">{t("cookingSession.empty")}</p>;
@@ -141,17 +195,33 @@ function RecipesTab({ recipes }: { recipes: readonly CookingSessionRecipeRef[] }
 
   return (
     <ul className="cooking-recipes" aria-label={t("cookingSession.recipesLegend")}>
-      {recipes.map((recipe) => (
-        <li key={`${recipe.recipeId}-${recipe.portions}`} className="cooking-recipes__item">
-          <span className="cooking-recipes__name">{recipe.name}</span>
-          <span className="cooking-recipes__portions">
-            {t("cookingSession.recipesTab.portions", { n: recipe.portions })}
-          </span>
-          <Link className="cooking-recipes__link" to={`/recettes/${recipe.recipeId}`}>
-            {t("cookingSession.recipesTab.viewRecipe")}
-          </Link>
-        </li>
-      ))}
+      {recipes.map((recipe) => {
+        const isExpanded = expandedId === recipe.recipeId;
+        return (
+          <li key={`${recipe.recipeId}-${recipe.portions}`} className="cooking-recipes__item">
+            <button
+              type="button"
+              className="cooking-recipes__row"
+              aria-expanded={isExpanded}
+              onClick={() => setExpandedId(isExpanded ? null : recipe.recipeId)}
+            >
+              <span className="cooking-recipes__name">{recipe.name}</span>
+              <span className="cooking-recipes__portions">
+                {t("cookingSession.recipesTab.portions", { n: recipe.portions })}
+              </span>
+              <span className="cooking-recipes__chevron" aria-hidden="true">
+                {isExpanded ? "▾" : "▸"}
+              </span>
+            </button>
+
+            {isExpanded && (
+              <div className="cooking-recipes__detail">
+                <RecipeDetailPanel state={detailState} showActions={false} />
+              </div>
+            )}
+          </li>
+        );
+      })}
     </ul>
   );
 }
diff --git a/apps/web/src/pages/cooking-session/cooking-session-page.scss b/apps/web/src/pages/cooking-session/cooking-session-page.scss
index 963ec3a..7aec442 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/pages/cooking-session/cooking-session-page.scss
+++ b/apps/web/src/pages/cooking-session/cooking-session-page.scss
@@ -86,9 +86,10 @@
 }
 
 // --- "Recettes" tab ---------------------------------------------------------
-// The week's planned recipes as a flat list — name, its own portion count,
-// and a jump to the recipe's page. Deliberately thin: `plan.recipes` only
-// carries `{recipeId, name, portions}`.
+// The week's planned recipes as a flat list — name and its own portion
+// count on an always-visible summary row; clicking one unfolds its full
+// detail inline underneath (fetched on demand, see `RecipesTab`/`&__detail`
+// below) instead of navigating to the recipe's own page.
 .cooking-recipes {
   flex: 1;
   min-height: 0;
@@ -100,14 +101,37 @@
   flex-direction: column;
   gap: var(--space-xs);
 
+  // The card: background/radius/shadow live here (not on `&__row` below) so
+  // the summary row and, once unfolded, the detail panel read as one block
+  // instead of two stacked cards.
   &__item {
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: column;
+    background: var(--color-surface);
+    border-radius: var(--radius-md);
+    box-shadow: var(--shadow-sm);
+    // Keeps the detail panel's own edges (see `&__detail` below) inside the
+    // card's rounded corners instead of poking past them.
+    overflow: hidden;
+  }
+
+  // The always-visible clickable summary — a real `<button>` (not a `<div
+  // onClick>`) so the whole row is a proper keyboard/click target for the
+  // expand/collapse toggle (`RecipesTab`), styled to read exactly like the
+  // plain flex row it replaces.
+  &__row {
+    appearance: none;
+    width: 100%;
     display: flex;
     align-items: center;
     gap: var(--space-sm);
     padding: var(--space-sm) var(--space-md);
-    background: var(--color-surface);
-    border-radius: var(--radius-md);
-    box-shadow: var(--shadow-sm);
+    border: none;
+    background: none;
+    font: inherit;
+    text-align: start;
+    color: inherit;
+    cursor: pointer;
   }
 
   &__name {
@@ -124,14 +148,34 @@
     font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
   }
 
-  // Pushed to the trailing edge — a quiet secondary action, not the point
-  // of the row.
-  &__link {
+  // Pushed to the trailing edge — a quiet affordance hinting the row
+  // unfolds, not an action of its own (the whole row is already clickable).
+  &__chevron {
     margin-left: auto;
     flex-shrink: 0;
-    font-size: var(--font-size-sm);
-    font-weight: 600;
-    color: var(--color-primary);
+    color: var(--color-text-muted);
+  }
+
+  // The unfolded recipe — reuses `.recipe-detail-panel` wholesale (see
+  // recipes.scss) rather than re-implementing a second "read a recipe"
+  // layout, just inset under the summary row with a separating rule.
+  &__detail {
+    padding: 0 var(--space-md) var(--space-md);
+    border-top: 1px solid var(--color-border);
+
+    .recipe-detail-panel {
+      // The shared panel is styled for a standalone side panel (its own
+      // card background/shadow, fills 100% of a sized flex parent, scrolls
+      // internally) — already sitting inside this card and in normal
+      // document flow here, so neutralize all of that rather than double
+      // up on card chrome or clip content to a height nothing constrains.
+      height: auto;
+      overflow-y: visible;
+      padding-top: var(--space-md);
+      background: none;
+      box-shadow: none;
+      border-radius: 0;
+    }
   }
 }