diff --git a/recipes/appstream.toml b/recipes/appstream.toml
index 14c9d756..0cfe2394 100644
--- a/recipes/appstream.toml
+++ b/recipes/appstream.toml
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ compile   = "PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages ninja -C output"
 install   = "PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages DESTDIR=/out meson install -C output --no-rebuild"
 
 [deps]
-build = ["meson", "samurai", "python3", "pkgconf", "gperf", "gettext-tiny", "itstool", "glib", "libxml2", "libyaml", "curl", "libxmlb", "zstd", "pcre2", "libffi", "zlib"]
+build = ["meson", "samurai", "python3", "pkgconf", "gperf", "gettext-tiny", "itstool", "glib", "libxml2", "libyaml", "curl", "openssl", "libxmlb", "zstd", "pcre2", "libffi", "zlib"]