Elements API - How to order / limit the output with an asset field of an entry
You could use the relatedTo parameter (docs) to query recipes related to the entry that has your Entries field on. Something like:

return [
    'elementType' =&gt; Entry::class,
    'criteria' =&gt; [
        'section' =&gt; 'recipes',
        'relatedTo' =&gt; ['sourceElement' =&gt; $entryWithEntriesField]
],


Where $entryWithEntriesField is the entry (or id of the entry) that contains the entry selection field would return the list of recipes attached to that entry.