diff --git a/pythonforandroid/recipes/pydantic/__init__.py b/pythonforandroid/recipes/pydantic/__init__.py
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+from pythonforandroid.recipe import PythonRecipe
+
+
+class PydanticRecipe(PythonRecipe):
+    version = '1.8.2'
+    url = 'https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic/archive/refs/tags/v{version}.zip'
+    depends = ['setuptools']
+    python_depends = ['Cython', 'devtools', 'email-validator', 'dataclasses', 'typing-extensions', 'python-dotenv']
+    call_hostpython_via_targetpython = False
+
+
+recipe = PydanticRecipe()