It's time to get cooking in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but where do you find all the recipes, and how do you go about cooking them? Well, you're in the right place for your answer. For anyone looking to fill their bellies with more than just fruit, there's fortunately lots to learn and plenty to collect – and it's not too tricky.
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. So, if you're eager to get your chef's hat on and cook up a storm, 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) |
Potato potage | Flour (1), Potato (2) |
Minestrone soup | Tomato (2), Potato (1), Carrot (1) |
Bamboo-shoot soup | Bamboo shoot (2) |
Mushroom potage | Flour (1), Round Mushroom (1), Flat Mushroom (1) |
Seaweed Soup | Seaweed (2) |
Salad | Tomato (1), Carrot (1), Potato (1), Orange pumpkin (1) |
Salade de carottes Râpées | Carrot (3) |
Mushroom salad | Round mushroom (1), Flat Mushroom (1), Skinny Mushroom (1) |
Turnip salad | Turnips (10), Tomato (1) |
Fruit salad | Apple (1), Ornage (1), Pear (1), Peach (1), Cherry (1) |
Poke | Salmon (1), Tomato (1) |
Seafood salad | Squid (1), Sweet Shrimp (1) |
French fries | Potato (3) |
Fish-and-chips | Potato (2), Dab (1) |
Baked potatoes | Potato (2), Dab (1) |
Potato galette | Flour (2), Potato (3) |
Veggie quiche | Flour (1), Potato (1), Orange pumpkin (1) |
Veggie sandwich | Flour (2), Tomato (1), Carrot (1) |
Mixed fruits sandwich | Flour (2), Orange (1), Pear (1), Peach (1) |
Salmon sandwich | Whole-wheat flour (1), Salmon (1) |
Tomato bagel sandwich | Flour (2), Tomato (3) |
Carrot bagel sandwich | Whole-wheat flour (2), Carrot (3) |
Pumpkin bagel sandwich | Flour (2), Orange pumpkin (3) |
Mixed fruits bagel sandwich | Flour (1), Apple (1), Orange (1), Pear (1), Peach (1), Orange (1) |
Salmon bagel sandwich | Flour (2), Salmon (1) |
Mushroom crepe | Flour (2), Round Mushroom (1), Skinny Mushroom (1) |
Veggie crepe | Flour (1), Tomato (1), Orange pumpkin (3) |
Bread gratin | Flour (2), Whole-wheat flour (1) |
Salad-stuffed tomato | Tomato (3) |
Pumpkin soup | Orange pumpkin (3) |
Kabu ankake | Turnips (10) |
Tomates al ajillo | Tomato (3) |
Champinones al ajilla | Round mushroom (1), Flat Mushroom (1), Skinny Mushroom (1), Rare Mushroom (1) |
Anchoas al ajillo | Anchovy (2) |
Seafood ajillo | Tiger prawn (1), Squid (1), Scallop (1) |
Pull-apart bread | Flour (2) |
Bread | Flour (3) |
Organic bread | Whole-wheat flour (3) |
Snack bread | Flour (3), Sugar (1) |
Savory bread | Flour (3), Carrot (1), Tomato (1), Potato (1) |
Gnocchi di carote | Flour (2), Carrot (3) |
Gnocchi di patate | Flour (2), Potato (3) |
Gnocchi di zucca | Flour (2), Orange pumpkin (3) |
Spaghetti marinara | Flour (3), Tomato puree (1) |
Spaghetti napolitan | Flour (3), Tomato puree (1) |
Squid-ink spaghetti | Flour (3), Squid (1) |
Tomato curry | Flour (3), Tomato (3) |
Carrot-tops curry | Flour (3), Carrot (3) |
Potato curry | Flour (3), Potato (3) |
Pumpkin curry | Flour (3), Orange pumpkin (3) |
Mushroom curry | Flour (3), Round Mushroom (1), Flat Mushroom (1), Skinny Mushroom (1) |
Squid-ink curry | Flour (3), Squid (1) |
Pizza margherita | Flour (3), Tomato (2) |
Mushroom pizza | Flour (3), Round Mushroom (2), Flat Mushroom (2) |
Fruit pizza | Flour (3), Apple (1), Orange (1), Pear (1), Peach (1), Cherry (1) |
Seafood pizza | Flour (3), Tiger prawn (1), Manila clam (2) |
Carpaccio di capesante | Scallop (2) |
Carpaccio di salmone | Salmon (1) |
Barred-knifejaw carpaccio | Barred knifejaw (1) |
Carpaccio di marlin blu | Blue marlin (1) |
Sea-bass pie | Flour (3), Sea Bass (1) |
Grilled sea bass with herbs | Sea bass (1), Clump of weeds (5) |
Aji Fry | Horse Mackerel (1), Flour (1) |
Karei no nitsuke | Dab (1) |
Sauteed olive flounder | Olive flounder (1), Skinny mushroom (1) |
Pesce all'acqua pazza | Red snapper (1), Tomato (1), Manila clam (1) |
Tomato puree | Tomato (3) |
Pickled veggies | Carrot (1), Potato (1), Tomato (1), Orange pumpkin (1) |
Jarred bamboo shoots | Bamboo shoot (3) |
Jarred mushrooms | Skinny mushroom (2) |
Orange marmalade | Orange (3) |
Cherry jam | Cherry (3) |
Peach jam | Peach (3) |
Pear jam | Pear (3) |
Apple jam | Apple (3) |
Coconut oil | Coconut (3) |
Sardines in oil | Anchovy (1) |
Clam chowder | Flour (1), Manila clam (3) |
Pumpkin pie | Flour (3), Sugar (2), Orange pumpkin (2) |
Gratin | Flour (3), Potato (2) |
Olive-flounder meuniere | Olive flounder (1), Flour (2) |
Cookies | Flour (1), Sugar (1) |
Frosted cookies | Flour (1), Sugar (2) |
Thumbprint jam cookies | Flour (1), Sugar (1) |
Coconut cookies | Flour (1), Sugar (1), Coconut (1) |
Veggie cookies | Flour (1), Sugar (1), Tomato (1), Carrot (1), Orange pumpkin (1) |
Roost sable cookie | Flour (1), Sugar (2) |
Pretzels | Flour (1), Sugar (1) |
Frosted pretzels | Flour (1), Sugar (2) |
Plain cupcakes | Flour (1), Sugar (1) |
Brown-sugar cupcakes | Whole-wheat flour (1), Brown sugar (1) |
Fruit cupcakes | Flour (1), Apple (1), Orange (1), Pear (1), Peach (1), Cherry (1) |
Pumpkin cupcakes | Flour (1), Sugar (1), Orange pumpkin (2) |
Veggie cupcakes | Flour (1), Sugar (1), Tomato (1), Carrot (1), Potato (1) |
Orange jelly | Orange (2) |
Cherry jelly | Cherry (2) |
Peach jelly | Peach (2) |
Pear jelly | Pear (2) |
Apple jelly | Apple (2) |
Coconut pudding | Sugar (1), Coconut (1) |
Plain scones | Flour (2), Sugar (1) |
Fruit scones | Flour (2), Apple (1), Orange (1), Pear (1), Peach (1), Cherry (1) |
Carrot scones | Whole-wheat flour (2), Sugar (1), Carrot (2) |
Pumpkin scones | Whole-wheat flour (2), Sugar (1), Orange pumpkin (2) |
Orange tart | Flour (1), Sugar (1), Orange (1) |
Cherry tart | Flour (1), Sugar (1), Cherry (1) |
Peach tart | Flour (1), Sugar (1), Peach (1) |
Pear tart | Flour (1), Sugar (1), Pear (1) |
Apple tart | Flour (1), Sugar (1), Apple (1) |
Mixed-fruits tart | Flour (1), Apple (1), Orange (1), Pear (1), Peach (1), Cherry (1) |
Carrot cake | Flour (1), Sugar (1), Carrot (1) |
Sugar crepe | Flour (2), Sugar (2) |
Mixed-fruits crepe | Flour (2), Apple (1), Orange (1), Pear (1), Peach (1), Cherry (1) |
Pound cake | Flour (2), Sugar (1) |
Orange pound cake | Flour (2), Sugar (1), Orange (2) |
Pumpkin pound cake | Flour (2), Sugar (1), Orange pumpkin (2) |
Brown sugar pound cake | Flour (2), Brown sugar (1) |
Cake sale | Flour (2), Carrot (1), Potato (1) |
Pancakes | Flour (2), Sugar (2) |
Coconut pancakes | Flour (2), Sugar (2), Coconut (2) |
Fruit-topped pancakes | Flour (2), Apple (1), Orange (1), Pear (1), Peach (1), Cherry (1) |
Orange pie | Flour (3), Sugar (2), Orange (2) |
Cherry pie | Flour (3), Sugar (2), Cherry (2) |
Peach pie | Flour (3), Sugar (2), Peach (2) |
Pear pie | Flour (3), Sugar (2), Pear (2) |
Apple pie | Flour (3), Sugar (2), Apple (2) |
Mixed-fruits pie | Flour (3), Apple (1), Orange (1), Pear (1), Peach (1), Cherry (1) |
Orange smoothie | Orange (2) |
Cherry smoothie | Cherry (2) |
Peach smoothie | Peach (2) |
Pear smoothie | Pear (2) |
Apple smoothie | Apple (2) |
Coconut milk | Coconut (2) |
Tomato juice | Tomato (2) |
Carrot juice | Carrot (2) |
Spooky cupcakes | Flour (1), Orange pumpkin (1), Yellow pumpkin (1), Green pumpkin (1), White pumpkin (1) |
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