Enhance your Animal Crossing: New Horizons gameplay with our ultimate cooking guide. Find out how to unlock cooking, gather recipes, and cook delicious dishes in the game.
Cooking in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the 2020 social simulation game has many features. In the game, players can collect natural resources and craft them into new items. Cooking is one of the features available in the game that allows the player to collect the items that are used for cooking and use them to make delicious dishes.
There are some prerequisites required for cooking in the game. To unlock cooking you need to purchase the DIY Recipes+ for 2,000 miles, at the Nook Stop. After purchasing this your DIY app will be updated and you can start cooking in the kitchen. You can build a Stonework Kitchen by using 15 clay, 30 stones, and 10 iron nuggets.
To cook anything in the game, recipes are needed. It is very easy to get these recipes. Let’s find out how to get the recipes below:
How to Get More Food Recipes in Animal Crossing?
To cook food in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you need to choose a recipe first. Here is how you can get them:
- After updating your DIY app, you can get your first set of recipes automatically. Two sweet recipes and six savory recipes will be added to your NookPhone. These recipes include Flour, Sugar, Fruit smoothie, Carrot potage, Tomato curry, Grilled sea bass with herbs, Pancakes, and Pumpkin bagel sandwich.
- To get more recipes, you need to buy the Basic Cooking Recipes book for 4,980 Bells. This can be purchased from Nook’s Cranny. This recipe book contains two sweet recipes and six savory recipes, which include Carrot cake, Brown-sugar cupcakes, Whole-wheat flour, Seaweed soup, Tomato puree, Gnocchi di patate, Whole-wheat flour, and Organic bread.
- You can find Message Bottles twice a day, washed up on the shores of the Islands. It contain either a cooking recipe or a DIY recipe.
- You can also interact with the NPCs like Brewster and Daisy-Mae to get recipes.
- You can also get a recipe by fishing.
- You can also get recipes from the villagers. If you visit a villager’s home while they are cooking, you can get a new recipe.
- You might see some balloons floating over the Island. Sometimes, a cooking recipe can be found in it.
Recipes
Here you can find a few cooking recipes from the game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons:
| Dish | Ingredients Needed |
| Flour | Five Wheats |
| Sugar | Five Sugarcanes |
| Apple Jam | Three Apples |
| Bread | Three Flour |
| Whole-Wheat Flour | Five Wheat |
| Coconut | One Coconut |
| Coconut Milk | Two Coconuts |
| Coconut Oil | Three Coconuts |
| Fruit Smoothie | Two Fruits |
| Tomato Puree | Three Tomatoes |
| Seaweed Soup | Two Seaweeds |
| Organic Bread | Three Whole-Wheat Flours |
| Carrot Cake | One Flour One Sugar One Carrot |
| Gnocchi di Patate | Two Flour Three Potato |
| Pound Cake | Two Flour One Sugar |
| Tomato Curry | Three Flour Three Tomatoes |
| Salad | One Tomato One Carrot One Potato One Orange Pumpkin |
| Carrot Potage | One Flour Two Carrot |
| Veggie Sandwich | Two Flour One Tomato One Carrot |
| Pretzels | One Flour One Sugar |
| Grilled Sea Bass with Herbs | One Sea Bass Five Clump of Weeds |
| Pancakes | Two Flour Two Sugar |
| Salmon Sandwich | Two Whole-Wheat Flour One Salmon |
| Brown-Sugar Cupcakes | One Whole-Wheat Flour One Brown Sugar |
| Pumpkin Bagel Sandwich | Two Flour One Orange Pumpkin |
Uses of Food in the Game
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you can cook many dishes using the recipes. You might wonder what the point of cooking is and what benefits it will offer. You can benefit from the dishes in many ways.
- You can consume the food that you have made in the game and it will provide you extra energy to complete your tasks.
- If you have excess food, you can sell them at the Nook’s Cranny. The Nook brothers will buy them for Bells.
- You can also use the food for decorative purposes. You can display them in your kitchen.
