diff --git a/recipe/meta.yaml b/recipe/meta.yaml
index 3193721..692ab43 100644
--- a/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ requirements:
     - nlohmann_json >=3.10.5
     - zlib
     - prometheus-cpp
-    # because the windows builds of libgrpc is static, we need _its_
-    # (not yet present) host dependencies to be able to link correctly
-    - c-ares         # [win]
-    - openssl        # [win]
-    - re2            # [win]
+    # because the windows builds of libgrpc before 1.55 are static, we need
+    # _their_ (not yet present) host dependencies to be able to link correctly
+    - c-ares         # [win and protobuf == "3.21"]
+    - openssl        # [win and protobuf == "3.21"]
+    - re2            # [win and protobuf == "3.21"]
 
 outputs:
   - name: libopentelemetry-cpp-headers