Animal Crossing: New Horizons update 2.0 has finally arrived, and one of the biggest new features added to the game is cooking. In this no-nonsense guide, we’ll reveal everything we know about cooking with an ongoing recipe list and some of the best tips to make sure you’re getting the most out of your culinary adventures.
How to start cooking in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
To start cooking in New Horizons you must first roll credits in the main game. After that point, go to the Nook Miles kiosk in your Resident Services building and spend 2,000 miles on the “Be a Chef! DIY Recipes + ”above“ Island Life Service 101 ”.
Once you do that, you’ll have access to a handful of starter recipes and unlock the ability to start cooking on any applicable stove or cooktop. If you don’t already have a stove in your home, the DIY kit you just bought has a recipe for creating a stone stove with 30 stones, 15 clay, and 10 iron nuggets.
For even more recipes, we recommend that you go directly to Nook’s Cranny to purchase DIY “Cooking Basics” for 4,980 Bells. From there, that’s all you need to start seeing what cooking is all about.
Next, interact with your kitchen settings and select the “let’s cook” option. In general, cooking works in a similar way to crafts. Just find the ingredients listed, tap A, and get started. As with brewing, you can repeatedly press the A button to make the cooking animation move faster.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons cooking recipe list
Now that you know excuse me cook in Animal crossing, you might be wondering what your options are for tasty dishes. This is what we know so far.
Obtained from “Be a Chef! DIY Recipes+”
- Sugar: five sugarcane
- Flour: five wheat
- Grilled Sea Bass with Herbs: one Sea Bass, five weeds
- Pancakes: two flour, two sugar
- Carrot Potage: one flour, two carrots
- Tomato Curry: three flour, three tomatoes
- Pumpkin Bagel Sandwich: two flour, three orange pumpkins
- Peach/Pear Smoothie [pears or peaches as your native fruit]: two peaches / pears
Obtained from “Basic cooking recipes”
- Whole wheat flour: five flours
- Brown Sugar: five sugar canes
- Brown sugar muffins: a whole wheat flour, a brown sugar
- Carrot cake: a floue, a sugar, a carrot
- Gnocchi di Patate: two flours, three potatoes
- Organic bread: three wholemeal flours
- Seaweed soup: two seaweed
- Tomato puree: three tomatoes
Fishing Recipes – Catch the fish listed in the recipe to get the recipe
- Sea Bass Cake: Sea Bass
- Aji Fry: a horse mackerel, a flour
- Karei no Nitsuke: a Dab
- Pesce All’acqua Pazza: a snapper, a tomato, a clam
Other recipes
- Mushroom salad: a round mushroom, a flat mushroom, a skinny mushroom
- Vegetable sandwich: two flours, a tomato, a carrot
- Minestrone soup: two tomatoes, a potato, a carrot
There are likely still more recipes to be found, but these are the ones that players have discovered so far.
How to get crops like wheat and sugar cane
You have probably noticed that there are many new resources listed among these recipes. For example, you may be wondering how to get ingredients like sugar cane or wheat. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.
- Sugar cane: Buy Lief’s Sugarcane Starts from his store on your island or on Harv’s Island for 280 Bells per cane or 1,400 Bells for a group of five. If you find sugarcane on a Kapp’n island, you can harvest and replant it at home to create your own stash for free.
- Wheat: It is more or less the same. Wheat Starts can be purchased at any of Lief’s stores for 280 Bells individually or 1,400 in bulk. You can also find some on a Kapp’n island.
Everything is quite easy, you only need to make use of Lief when you see it. That’s all you need to know to start cooking in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.