diff --git a/patterns-base.changes b/patterns-base.changes
index f3899f2..6cd7840 100644
--- a/patterns-base.changes
+++ b/patterns-base.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jan  4 08:49:47 UTC 2019 - Dominique Leuenberger <dleuenberger@suse.com>
+
+- Recommend grub2-x86_64-efi by base pattern on x86_64: since we use
+  the shim RPMs from Leap, there is currently no dependency on
+  grub2-x86_64-efi defined. Once shim changes that, we can drop the
+  recommends here.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Dec 11 09:21:13 UTC 2018 - Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/patterns-base.spec b/patterns-base.spec
index eb829ac..52031c7 100644
--- a/patterns-base.spec
+++ b/patterns-base.spec
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ Recommends:     branding-SLE
 %endif
 %ifarch x86_64
 Recommends:     shim
+Recommends:     grub2-x86_64-efi
 %endif
 %ifarch ppc ppc64 ppc64le
 %if !0%{?is_opensuse}