The free 2.0 Update for Animal Crossing New Horizons brings tons of new items and recipes to the game. If you’ve been growing crops on your island, it might be time to dive into cooking. In this guide, we’ll show you all of the Animal Crossing New Horizons cooking recipes and explain how to get started on your cooking adventures.
There are dozens of unique Animal Crossing New Horizons cooking recipes to collect, many of which require reasonably simple ingredients. Every recipe you make can be eaten, gifted, or set up as decorations in your home.
How to cook in Animal Crossing New Horizons
To cook in ACNH, you’ll need to unlock DIY Recipes+. You can head on over to the Resident Services building and go to the Redeem Nook Miles part of the Nook Stop terminal. Pick up the DIY Recipes+ upgrade to unlock the ability to cook and pick up some basic recipes.
You’ll need some ingredients to get started, many of which can be grown from the five new crops. Refer to our guide on how to farm crops in ACNH if you need some help getting started with that. The gist is that you’ll need to pick up some seeds and starts from Leif and plant them on your island. However, some recipes will require foraged ingredients like mushrooms or specific fish like Sea Bass, Mackerel, or Red Snapper.
With your ingredients handy, head on over to your house, go to an existing stove or build the new DIY Stonework Kitchen. Interact with it and choose the Let’s Cook option to get started. You can browse your recipes through the menu and make something. After making a recipe, the item will show up in your inventory, allowing you to show it off, eat or drink it for energy, place the item, or put it in storage. Different recipes award you with varying amounts of energy.
Animal Crossing New Horizons Cooking Recipes
Here is a complete list of all Anime Crossing New Horizons cooking recipes:
| Recipe | Ingredients |
| Aji Fry | Horse Mackerel x1 Flour x1 |
| Brown sugar | Sugarcane x5 |
| Brown-sugar cupcakes | Whole-wheat flour x1 Brown sugar x1 |
| Carrot cake | Flour x1 Sugar x1 Carrot x1 |
| Carrot potage | Flour x1 Carrot x2 |
| Cherry smoothie | Cherry x2 |
| Flour | Wheat x5 |
| Gnocchi di patate | Flour x2 Potato x3 |
| Grilled sea bass with herbs | Sea bass x1 Clump of weeds x5 |
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| Karei no Nitsuke | Dab x1 |
| Minestrone soup | Tomato x2 Potato x2 Carrot x1 |
| Mushroom Salad | Round mushroom x1 Flat mushroom x1 Skinny mushroom x1 |
| Organic bread | Whole-weat flour x3 |
| Orange smoothie | Orange x2 |
| Pancakes | Flour x2 Sugar x2 |
| Peach smoothie | Peach x2 |
| Pear smoothie | Pear x2 |
| Pesce All’acqua Pazza | Red Snapper x1 Tomato x1 Manila Clam x1 |
| Pumpkin bagel sandwich | Flour x2 Orange pumpkin x3 |
| Sauteed Olive Flounder | Olive flounder x1 Skinny mushroom x1 |
| Sea bass pie | Sea bass pie x1 |
| Seaweed soup | Seaweed x2 |
| Sugar | Sugarcane x5 |
| Tomato curry | Flour x3 Tomato x3 |
| Tomato puree | Tomato x3 |
| Veggie sandwich | Flour x2 Tomato x1 Carrot x1 |
| Whole-wheat flour | Wheat x5 |
For now, there are two categories of recipes: Savory and Sweet. We’ll update our list when we discover new ones.
How to get more recipes in Animal Crossing New Horizons
There are a few ways to get more recipes in Animal Crossing New Horizons. The first method is by picking up the Basic Cooking Recipes from Nook’s Cranny. Open the cabinet at Nook’s Cranny and pick up the Basic Cookie Recipes for 4,980 Bells to learn other recipes. Another way to get new recipes is from fishing. If you catch sea bass, for instance, you’ll unlock a recipe for sea-bass pie. You can also find recipes through messages in a bottle.
