Cooking has arrived for island dwellers at last, so they can fill their bellies with more than fruit, which means there are now plenty of Animal Crossing: New Horizons cooking recipes to collect. Everything you find can be made, eaten, gifted, or simply just presented in your home, which is super adorable. Plus, a lot of the existing in-game meal items can also be consumed now thanks to Animal Crossing: New Horizons Update 2.0. Here's how to cook and collect all the Animal Crossing: New Horizons cooking recipes:
How to cook
How to cook in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
1. Unlock DIY Recipes+
The first thing you'll need to do is head to the Nook Stop terminal in Residents Services and go to the 'Redeem Nook Miles' section. Here you'll find the 'Be a Chef! DIY Recipes+' upgrade, which will add the ability to cook and give you a selection of recipes to get started with.
2. Grab some ingredients
Next up, you'll need to collect the ingredients you need to make each of the dishes you want to create. A lot of them will need you to invest time doing some Animal Crossing: New Horizons farming, by collecting seeds and growing crops such as tomatoes, wheat, and more. Others will need fish or other ingredients such as mushrooms.
3. Head to a cooker
Once you've got the ingredients, simply head over to any oven, cooker, or stove that you have in your home. If you don't have one, you'll need to buy and place one in your home if you want to do some cooking. Cooking works in a very similar way to crafting at a workbench, so just interact with your oven, pick the 'Let's cook!' option, and then select the craftable recipe you want to make. Then it's just a case of waiting to see your dish get prepped! You can then decide to display, eat, or gift your dish later on.
Finding recipes
How to get Animal Crossing: New Horizons recipes
There are a variety of ways to collect and obtain Animal Crossing: New Horizons cooking recipes. Here's what we've found so far:
- Nook Miles - Buy the 'Be a Chef! DIY Recipes+' upgrade to unlock the ability to cook, but also a load of recipes to get you started
- The cupboard at Nook's Cranny - Buy the Basic Cooking Recipes pack for a selection of starter menus
- Villager gifts - Rumor has it that you can be gifted cooking recipes as they would normal recipes. We've not yet been able to verify this ourselves
- Messages in a bottle - Check your bottle on the beach each day, as these can now contain cooking recipes too
- Kapp'n Islands - You can find both crops and cooking recipes on random Kapp'n islands
- Fishing - You can find fish-related recipes simply by fishing up different species
Cooking recipes
Animal Crossing: New Horizons cooking recipes
We're building a growing list of all the Animal Crossing: New Horizons cooking recipes we've found so far, and will be updating this as we find more:
| Name | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| Flour | Wheat (5) |
| Whole-wheat flour | Wheat (5) |
| Sugar | Sugarcane (5) |
| Brown sugar | Sugarcane (5) |
| Carrot potage | Flour (1), Carrot (2) |
| Seaweed Soup | Seaweed (2) |
| Pumpkin bagel sandwich | Flour (2), Orange pumpkin (3) |
| Organic bread | Whole-wheat flour (3) |
| Gnocchi di patate | Flour (2), Potato (3) |
| Tomato curry | Flour (3), Tomato (3) |
| Grilled sea bass with herbs | Sea bass (1), Clump of weeds (5) |
| Tomato puree | Tomato (3) |
| Brown-sugar cupcakes | Whole-wheat flour (1), Brown sugar (1) |
| Carrot cake | Flour (1), Sugar (1), Carrot (1) |
| Pancakes | Flour (2), Sugar (2) |
| Cherry smoothie | Cherry (2) |
| Sea bass pie | Sea bass (1) |
| Aji Fry | Horse Mackerel (1), Flour (1) |
| Karei no Nitsuke | Dab (1) |
| Pesce All'acqua Pazza | Red Snapper (1), Tomato (1), Manila Clam (1) |
| Peach smoothie | Peach (2) |
| Mushroom Salad | Round mushroom (1), Flat Mushroom (1), Skinny Mushroom (1) |
| Veggie sandwich | Flour (2), Tomato (1), Carrot (1) |
| Minestrone Soup | Tomatoes (2), Potato (1), Carrot (1) |
| Pear Smoothie | Pear (2) |
| Sauteed Olive Flounder | Olive flounder (1), Skinny Mushroom (1) |
| Mushroom potage | Flour (1), Round Mushroom (1), Flat Mushroom (1) |
| Peach pie | Flour (3), Sugar (2), Peach (2) |
| Snack Bread | Flour (3), Sugar (1) |
| Anchoas al Ajillo | Anchovy (2) |
| Sardines in oil | Anchovy (1) |
| Fruit scones | Flour (2), Apple (1), Orange (1), Pear (1), Peach (1), Cherry (1) |
| Mixed fruits pie | Flour (3), Apple (1), Orange (1), Pear (1), Peach (1), Cherry (1) |
| Salade de carottes Râpées | Carrot (3) |
| Barred-knifejaw carpaccio | Barred knifejaw (1) |
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