Animal Crossing: New Horizons Cooking Guide and Full Recipe List (2024)

Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ robust Ver. 2.0 update has introduced a robust new cooking feature, letting players create sweet and savory dishes by combining ingredients both old and new. Get ready to update your DIY Recipes app and head to the nearest kitchen as it’s time to finally cook up over 140 new recipes! Keep reading for our full guide on how to cook in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Can you cook in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

Yes! Cooking was added to the game via its Ver. 2.0 update on November 3rd, 2021. Players can now grow crops like sugarcane, tomatoes, carrots, wheat, and much more, and combine these ingredients to create dishes that can be eaten, gifted, or displayed.

How many Cooking Recipes are there?

There are a whopping141 Cooking Recipes to find in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You can find the full list at the bottom of this guide.

How do I unlock the cooking feature in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

First, make sure your copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is updated to at least version 2.0.0. To check, select New Horizons’ icon on your Nintendo Switch with the + Button. Under its name, a Version number will be listed under it (i.e. version 2.0.0). If it isn’t Ver. 2.0 or higher, go to the “Software Update” tab and select “Via the Internet” to download the update from the internet or “Match Version with Local Users” if you have a second Nintendo Switch that has the update installed.

Once you’re all up to date, it’s off to Nook Stop at Resident Services!

Provided that you have 2,000 Nook Miles on hand, you can purchase Be a Chef! DIY Recipes+. Once loaded into your NookPhone, you’ll get the following recipes:

• Carrot potage
• Flour
• Grilled sea bass with herbs
• Pancakes
• Pumpkin bagel sandwich
• Sugar
• Tomato curry
• Apple smoothie/Cherry smoothie/Orange smoothie/Peach smoothie/Pear smoothie*

*Depending on your island’s native fruit.

You’ll also unlock a DIY recipe for the Stonework kitchen – a kitchen item that doubles as a cooking-only “workbench” to work your magic!

Where can I find Cooking Recipes?

Similar to DIY Recipes, Cooking Recipes can be found in a variety of ways! You can find Cooking Recipes in washed-up DIY bottles on the shores of beaches, obtain from neighbors, acquired from specific items and/or characters, and even balloons (Spooky Cookies only though). Certain recipes can be obtained only a specific way, and they are the following:

Be a Chef! DIY Recipes+

• Available via Nook Miles Redemption for 2,000 Nook Miles.
• Recipes: Carrot potage, Flour, Grilled sea bass with herbs, Pancakes, Pumpkin bagel sandwich, Sugar, and Tomato curry.

Basic Cooking Recipes

• Available via Nook’s Cranny for 4,980 Bells.
• Recipes: Brown sugar, Brown-sugar cupcakes, Carrot cake, Gnocchi di patate, Organic bread, Seaweed soup, Tomato puree, and Whole-wheat flour.

Turkey Day Recipes

• Learn from Franklin during his Turkey Day visit or purchase the pack at Nook’s Cranny for 9,800 Bells after Turkey Day (for a limited time in November).
• Recipes: Clam chowder, Gratin, Olive-flounder meunière, and Pumpkin pie.

Recipes from Daisy Mae

• Obtained from Daisy Mae. Buy some turnips during her Sunday visit and you’ll receive a letter the next day with a recipe (a random cooking or furniture DIY).
• Recipes: Bamboo-shoot soup, Jarred bamboo shoots, Kabu ankake, and Turnip salad.

Fish dishes where you must catch a fish to learn the Cooking Recipe:

• Anchovy: Anchoas al ajillo and Sardines in oil.
• Barred knifejaw: Barred-knifejaw carpaccio.
• Blue marlin: Carpaccio di marlin blu.
• Dab: Karei no nitsuke.
• Horse mackerel: Aji fry.
• Oliver flounder: Sautéed olive flounder.
• Red Snapper: Pesce all’acqua pazza.
• Salmon: Carpaccio di salmone, Poke, Salmon bagel sandwich, and Salmon sandwich.
• Sea bass: Sea-bass pie.
• Squid: Squid-ink curry and Squid-ink spaghetti.

Where can I find ingredients?

Ingredients can be procured from various sources on your island. Some dishes require fruits — like apples, oranges, and peaches — while others require fish, deep sea creatures, weeds, mushrooms, turnips, or even items like bamboo shoots. Most recipes, however, require you to grow crops like pumpkins, potatoes, and wheat. Seeds for these crops can be obtained from Leif when he visits your island, or if you’ve donated enough 100,000 Bells to open his shop on Harv’s Island.

All Cooking Recipes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

You can find all 141 ACNH Cooking Recipes and their required ingredients below. Discover your favorite one and get cooking (or baking)!

DIY Cooking Recipes	Image	Ingredients
Aji fry		1 Horse mackerel, 1 Flour
Anchoas al ajillo		2 Anchovy
Apple jam		3 Apple
Apple jelly		2 Apple
Apple pie		3 Flour, 2 Sugar, 2 Apple
Apple smoothie		2 Apple
Apple tart		1 Flour, 1 Sugar, 1 Apple
Baked potatoes		2 Potato
Bamboo-shoot soup		2 Bamboo shoot
Barred-knifejaw carpaccio		1 Barred knifejaw
Bread		3 Flour
Bread gratin		2 Flour, 2 Whole-wheat flour
Brown Sugar		5 Sugarcane
Brown-sugar cupcakes		1 Whole-wheat flour, 1 Brown sugar
Brown-sugar pound cake		2 Flour, 1 Brown sugar
Cake salé		2 Flour, 1 Carrot, 1 Potato
Carpaccio di capesante		2 Scallop
Carpaccio di marlin blu		1 Blue marlin
Carpaccio di salmone		1 Salmon
Carrot bagel sandwich		2 Whole-wheat flour, 3 Carrot
Carrot cake		1 Flour, 1 Sugar, 1 Carrot
Carrot juice		2 Carrot
Carrot potage		1 Flour, 2 Carrot
Carrot scones		2 Whole-wheat flour, 1 Sugar, 2 Carrot
Carrot-tops curry		3 Flour, 3 Carrot
Champiñones al ajillo		1 Round mushroom, 1 Flat mushroom, 1 Skinny mushroom, 1 Rare mushroom
Cherry jam		3 Cherry
Cherry jelly		2 Cherry
Cherry pie		3 Flour, 2 Sugar, 2 Cherry
Cherry smoothie		2 Cherry
Cherry tart		1 Flour, 1 Sugar, 1 Cherry
Clam chowder		1 Flour, 3 Manila clam
Coconut cookies		1 Flour, 1 Sugar, 1 Coconut
Coconut milk		2 Coconut
Coconut oil		3 Coconut
Coconut pancakes		2 Flour, 2 Sugar, 2 Coconut
Coconut pudding		1 Sugar, 2 Coconut
Cookies		1 Flour, 1 Sugar
Fish and chips		2 Potato, 1 Dab
Flour		5 Wheat
French fries		3 Potato
Frosted cookies		1 Flour, 2 Sugar
Frosted pretzels		1 Flour, 2 Sugar
Fruit cupcakes		1 Flour, 1 Apple, 1 Orange, 1 Pear, 1 Peach, 1 Cherry
Fruit pizza		3 Flour, 1 Apple, 1 Orange, 1 Pear, 1 Peach, 1 Cherry
Fruit salad		1 Apple, 1 Orange, 1 Pear, 1 Peach, 1 Cherry
Fruit scones		2 Flour, 1 Apple, 1 Orange, 1 Pear, 1 Peach, 1 Cherry
Fruit-topped pancakes		2 Flour, 1 Apple, 1 Orange, 1 Pear, 1 Peach, 1 Cherry
Gnocchi di carote		2 Flour, 3 Carrot
Gnocchi di patate		2 Flour, 3 Potato
Gnocchi di zucca		2 Flour, 3 Orange pumpkin
Gratin		3 Flour, 2 Potato
Grilled sea bass with herbs		1 Sea bass, 5 Clump of weeds
Jarred bamboo shoots		3 Bamboo shoots
Jarred mushrooms		2 Skinny mushroom
Kabu ankake		10 Turnips
Karei no nitsuke		1 Dab
Minestrone soup		2 Tomato, 1 Potato, 1 Carrot
Mixed-fruits bagel sandwich		2 Flour, 1 Apple, 1 Orange, 1 Pear, 1 Peach, 1 Cherry
Mixed-fruits crepe		2 Flour, 1 Apple, 1 Orange, 1 Pear, 1 Peach, 1 Cherry
Mixed-fruits pie		3 Flour, 1 Apple, 1 Orange, 1 Pear, 1 Peach, 1 Cherry
Mixed-fruits sandwich		2 Flour, 1 Orange, 1 Pear, 1 Peach
Mixed-fruits tart		1 Flour, 1 Apple, 1 Orange, 1 Pear, 1 Peach, 1 Cherry
Mushroom crepe		2 Flour, 1 Round mushroom, 1 Skinny mushroom
Mushroom curry		3 Flour, 1 Round mushroom, 1 Flat mushroom, 1 Skinny mushroom
Mushroom pizza		3 Flour, 2 Round mushroom, 2 Flat mushroom
Mushroom potage		1 Flour, 1 Round mushroom, 1 Flat mushroom
Mushroom salad		1 Round mushroom, 1 Flat mushroom, 1 Skinny mushroom
Olive-flounder meunière		1 Olive flounder, 2 Flour
Orange jelly		2 Orange
Orange marmalade		3 Orange
Orange pie		3 Flour, 2 Sugar, 2 Orange
Orange pound cake		2 Flour, 1 Sugar, 2 Orange
Orange smoothie		2 Orange
Orange tart		1 Flour, 1 Sugar, 1 Orange
Organic bread		3 Whole-wheat flour
Pancakes		2 Flour, 2 Sugar
Peach jam		3 Peach
Peach jelly		2 Peach
Peach pie		3 Flour, 2 Sugar, 2 Peach
Peach smoothie		2 Peach
Peach tart		1 Flour, 1 Sugar, 1 Peach
Pear jam		3 Pear
Pear jelly		2 Pear
Pear pie		3 Flour, 2 Sugar, 2 Pear
Pear smoothie		2 Pear
Pear tart		1 Flour, 1 Sugar, 1 Pear
Pesce all'acqua pazza		1 Red snapper, 1 Tomato, 1 Manila clam
Pickled veggies		1 Carrot, 1 Potato, 1 Tomato, 1 Orange pumpkin
Pizza margherita		3 Flour, 2 Tomato
Plain cupcakes		1 Flour, 1 Sugar
Plain scones		2 Flour, 1 Sugar
Poke		1 Salmon, 1 Tomato
Potato curry		3 Flour, 3 Potato
Potato galette		2 Flour, 3 Potato
Potato potage		1 Flour, 2 Potato
Pound cake		2 Flour, 1 Sugar
Pretzels		1 Flour, 1 Sugar
Pull-apart bread		2 Flour
Pumpkin bagel sandwich		2 Flour, 3 Orange pumpkin
Pumpkin cupcakes		1 Flour, 1 Sugar, 2 Orange pumpkin
Pumpkin curry		3 Flour, 3 Orange pumpkin
Pumpkin pie		3 Flour, 2 Sugar, 2 Orange pumpkin
Pumpkin pound cake		2 Flour, 1 Sugar, 2 Orange pumpkin
Pumpkin scones		2 Whole-wheat flour, 1 Sugar, 2 Orange pumpkin
Pumpkin soup		3 Orange pumpkin
Roost sablé cookie		1 Flour, 2 Sugar
Salad		1 Tomato, 1 Carrot, 1 Potato, 1 Orange pumpkin
Salad-stuffed tomato		3 Tomato
Salade de carottes râpées		3 Carrot
Salmon bagel sandwich		2 Flour, 1 Salmon
Salmon sandwich		2 Whole-wheat flour, 1 Salmon
Sardines in oil		1 Anchovy
Sautéed olive flounder		1 Olive flounder, 1 Skinny mushroom
Savory bread		3 Flour, 1 Carrot, 1 Tomato, 1 Potato
Sea-bass pie		3 Flour, 1 Sea bass
Seafood ajillo		1 Tiger prawn, 1 Squid, 1 Scallop
Seafood pizza		3 Flour, 1 Tiger prawn, 2 Manila clam
Seafood salad		1 Squid, 1 Sweet shrimp
Seaweed soup		2 Seaweed
Snack bread		3 Flour, 1 Sugar
Spaghetti marinara		3 Flour, 1 Tomato puree
Spaghetti napolitan		3 Flour, 1 Tomato puree
Spooky cookies		1 Flour, 1 Orange pumpkin, 1 Yellow pumpkin, 1 White pumpkin, 1 Green pumpkin
Squid-ink curry		3 Flour, 1 Squid
Squid-ink spaghetti		3 Flour, 1 Squid
Sugar		5 Sugarcane
Sugar crepe		2 Flour, 2 Sugar
Thumbprint jam cookies		1 Flour, 1 Sugar
Tomates al ajillo		3 Tomato
Tomato bagel sandwich		2 Flour, 3 Tomato
Tomato curry		3 Flour, 3 Tomato
Tomato juice		2 Tomato
Tomato puree		3 Tomato
Turnip salad		10 Turnips, 1 Tomato
Veggie cookies		1 Flour, 1 Sugar, 1 Tomato, 1 Carrot, 1 Orange pumpkin
Veggie crepe		2 Flour, 1 Tomato, 1 Orange pumpkin
Veggie cupcakes		1 Flour, 1 Sugar, 1 Tomato, 1 Carrot, 1 Potato
Veggie quiche		1 Flour, 1 Potato, 1 Orange Pumpkin
Veggie sandwich		2 Flour, 1 Tomato, 1 Carrot
Whole-wheat flour		5 Wheat

Item images and information are from the fantastic ACNH Spreadsheetand its associated Discord channel.

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