Populate relation in repeatable component

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Hi! I’m trying to populate a relation in a repeatable component but I’m not having any success. I feel like I’m just missing something basic. Any help is appreciated.

I’ve attached a screenshot of how I set up the relation. I’m using a custom controller to fetch the recipes by slug:

const { createCoreController } = require('@strapi/strapi').factories;

module.exports = createCoreController('api::recipe.recipe', ({strapi}) => ({
  async findOne(ctx) {
    const { slug } = ctx.params;

    const entity = await strapi.db.query('api::recipe.recipe').findOne({
      where: { slug },
      populate: {
        steps: true,
        ingredients: {
          populate: {
            ingredient: true,
          }
        }
      },
    });

    const sanitizedEntity = await this.sanitizeOutput(entity);

    return this.transformResponse(sanitizedEntity);
  }
}));

Here I expect the steps to be populated as well as the ingredient attributes within the repeatable component including the relation to the Ingredient. But this is the response I’m getting:

{
  "data": {
    "id": 1,
    "attributes": {
      "name": "Recipe",
      "slug": "recipe",
      "createdAt": "2024-05-31T20:17:18.295Z",
      "updatedAt": "2024-06-21T20:54:00.907Z",
      "publishedAt": "2024-06-10T19:51:01.847Z",
      "servings": 4,
      "steps": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "instructions": "Step 1"
        },
        {
          "id": 2,
          "instructions": "Step 2"
        },
        {
          "id": 3,
          "instructions": "Step 3"
        }
      ],
      "ingredients": [
        {
          "id": 1,
          "amount": 100,
          "additional_information": "Test"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    
  }
}```

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