Set up the "facets" for the filter option. These will be specific to you, but here is the main one we use.
Once filters are set up you can add the shortcodes to the "Widgets Sidebar" aka Sidebar 1 as Showit knows it. You can view our client widgets here and how we set up the titles and shortcodes.
Set up the "template" you will place this shortcode in your Recipe Index page [facetwp template="recipe_index"]