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Pokemon Quest has a rather unique way of adding more Pokemon to your team. Instead of catching them in PokeBalls, you have to make a stew and attract Pokemon to your base camp where they’ll then join your party. Depending on what ingredients you use, you’ll cook different recipes and attract different kinds of Pokemon.
At first, it can be pretty confusing to cook recipes since you don’t really know what each ingredient does. But mastering the art of the kitchen is vital for getting the Pokemon you need to progress through the game. You even have a chance to collect shiny Pokemon by cooking, according to RPG Site.
Thanks to help from the Pokemon subreddit and Serebii, we’re able to figure things out. Here’s everything you need to know about Pokemon Quest recipes including how to cook them and what they do.
Keep in mind that there is still a lot to figure out when it comes to cooking. We will continue to update the article as we figure out more information.
How to Cook in Pokemon Quest
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First let’s go over the basics. You place ingredients in each of the five slots of a pot. Then after completing a number of expeditions in the game, the food finishes cooking and a Pokemon will arrive at your base.
The key to cooking is to know what each ingredient does. Each ingredient has a number of attributes and each recipe requires the pot to be filled with a certain kind and amount of attributes. You can find a list of ingredients and their attributes below, as compiled by the Pokemon subreddit:
Tiny mushrooms: red, soft, and small
Big roots: big, red, soft, precious, and vegetables
Bluk Berries: blue, soft, small, and sweet
Icy rocks: blue, hard, precious, and minerals
Apricorns: yellow, hard, small, and vegetables
Honey: yellow, soft, precious, and sweet
Fossils: grey, hard, small, and minerals
Balm mushrooms: gray, soft, precious, and mushrooms
As user Klubbah found, the amount of each attribute necessary to craft the recipe is found in the recipe itself. So if a recipe requires a whole lot of soft ingredients, you need at least four soft ingredients.
All = 5
A whole lot = 4
A lot = 3
A few = 2
A little = 1
Reddit user Dragonite4 theorizes that the smaller ingredients on the top row have a +1 quantifier and the larger ingredients on the bottom row have a +2 quantifier. So Honey can count as two yellow, soft, precious, and sweet ingredients while Apricorns count as one yellow, hard, small, and vegetable ingredients.
Dragonite4 cooked a Mouth Watering Dip with two Big Roots and 3 Bulk Berries. The Mouth Watering Dip requires four soft ingredients and three blue ingredients. The two Big Roots add four soft attributes and the three Bulk Berries add three blue attributes, creating the Mouth Watering Dip.
However you need to be careful of overlapping certain quantifiers. Dragonite4 tried to make a Veggie Smoothie with four Apricorns and one Honey to get four plant ingredients and two sweet ingredients but because all of the ingredients were yellow they got a Yellow Curry instead.
It’s also theorized that the more precious ingredients included in a stew, the more expeditions you need to go on to cook it.
You also have to pay attention to what kind of pot you’re using. The bronze pot uses 10 ingredients per slot instead of three for the standard pot but yields higher level Pokemon, as user PheonixFontaine reported.
One last thing. Say you’re running short on a certain color of ingredient. Well each world in the game offers more of one color of ingredient than the others, allowing you to explore that world to hunt for that specific colored ingredient.
Each world has a circle-shaped icon next to its name. This icon is the Ingredient Ratio, which tells you how many cooking ingredients of a certain color you will receive compared to the others.
For instance, Backforth Brook will earn you mostly blue ingredients as the blue part of the icon takes up nearly half of the circle. You have a slightly smaller chance of earning yellow ingredients and a much small chance of earning gray and red ingredients.
Serebii has a full list of worlds and what their Ingredient Ratios are.
Pokemon Quest Recipes List
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Now that cooking has been explained, we can get into what you need to cook all of the recipes. Below is a list of all 18 recipes, what ingredients you need for each recipe, and what Pokemon you’ll attract with it as figured out by the Pokemon subreddit, Serebii, and our own gameplay.
Note: the quality of the recipe determines the rarity of the Pokemon, according to Serebii. “Special” dishes have the most chance of getting rare Pokemon followed by “very good” and “good.” This will be indicated at the end of recipes.
Mulligan Stew a la Cube: Use any ingredients
3 Fossils & 2 Tiny Mushroom
3 Fossils & 2 Bulk Berries
3 Apricorns & 2 Bulk Berries
3 Apricorns & 2 Tiny Mushroom
3 Apricorns, 1 Tiny Mushroom & 1 Bulk Berry
2 Berries, 2 Apricorns & 1 Fossil
2 Berries, 2 Apricorns & 1 Tiny mushroom
2 Berries, 2 Fossils & 1 Apricorn
2 Berries, 2 Fossils & 1 Tiny Mushroom
2 Icy rock, 2 Tiny mushroom & 1 Fossil
1 Icy rock, 1 Berry, 1 Honey, 1 Apricorn & 1 Fossil
2 Fossils, 1 Big Root, 1 Icy Rock, & 1 Honey
2 Honey, 2 Bulk Berries, & 1 Tiny Mushroom
3 Icy Rocks & 2 Balm Mushrooms
3 Big Roots & 2 Honey
2 Tiny Mushrooms, 1 Honey & 1 Apricorn
2 Tiny Mushrooms, 1 Big Root, 1 Fossil & 1 Honey
2 Tiny Mushrooms, 2 Apricorns & 1 Icy Rock
1 Icy Rock, 2 Balm Mushrooms, 1 Honey & 1 Bulk Berry
1 Rainbow Matter, 1 Big Root, 1 Icy Rock, 1 Honey & 1 Balm Mushroom
3 Balm Mushroom & 2 Bulk Berries (very good)
3 Big Roots, 1 Fossil & 1 Rainbow Matter (special)
3 Balm Mushroom, 1 Big Root & 1 Icy Rock (special)
2 Honey, 2 Icy Rocks & 1 Rainbow Matter (special)
2 Honey, 2 Big Roots, & 1 Rainbow Matter (special)
5 Rainbow Matter
Lures some Pokemon (Chansey, etc.)Red Stew a la Cube: At least 4 red ingredients
5 Tiny Mushrooms
3 Tiny Mushrooms & 2 Big Roots (good)
5 Big Roots (special)
Lures reddish Pokemon (Pidgey, Rattata, Spearow, Clefairy, Vulpix, Jigglypuff, Slowpoke, Krabby, Voltorb, Exeggcute, Lickitung, Chansey, Kangaskhan, Goldeen, Staryu, Mr. Mime, Jynx, Magikarp, Kabuto, Diglett, etc.)Blue Soda a la Cube: At least 4 blue ingredients
5 Bulk Berries
4 Bulk Berries & 1 Tiny Mushroom
4 Bulk Berries & 1 Apricorn
4 Bulk Berries & 1 Fossil
5 Icy Rocks (special)
Lures blueish Pokemon (Nidoran, Poliwag, Gastly, Horsea, Lapras, Omanyte, Dratini, etc.)Yellow Curry a la Cube: At least 4 yellow ingredients
5 Apricorns
4 Apricorns & 1 Bulk Berry
2 Honey & 3 Apricorn
2 Honey, 1 Bulk Berry & 2 Apricorn (good)
4 Honey, 1 Big Root (special)
Lures yellowish Pokemon (Pikachu, Meouth, Psyduck, Bellsprout, Drowzee, etc.)Gray Porridge a la Cube: At least 4 gray ingredients
5 Fossils
4 Balm Mushroom & 1 Tiny Mushroom (very good)
4 Balm Mushroom & 1 Honey (special)
4 Balm Mushroom & 1 Big Root (special)
4 Balm Mushroom & 1 Icy Rock (special)
Lures grayish Pokemon (Geodude, Clefairy, Jigglypuff, Oddish, Machop, Seel, Cubone, Porygon, etc.)Mouth-Watering Dip a la Cube: “A whole lot of soft things and a lot of blue” – 4 soft ingredients and 3 blue ingredients
3 Bulk Berries & 2 Tiny Mushrooms
3 Bulk Berries & 2 Big Roots
2 Bulk Berries, 1 Icy Rock, & 2 Tiny Mushroom
3 Bulk Berries, 1 Honey, & 1 Balm Mushroom
2 Bulk Berries, 2 Honey & 1 Apricorn
2 Bulk Berries, 1 Tiny Mushroom, 1 Big Root & 1 Icy Rock
3 Bulk Berries, 1 Apricorn & 1 Honey (good)
2 Berries, 1 Honey, 1 Big Root & 1 Icy Rock (very good)
1 Icy Rock, 2 Bulk Berries & 2 Honey (very good)
Lures Water Pokemon (Squirtle, Lapras, Psyduck, Poliwag, Seel, Shellder, Goldeen, Horsea, Staryu, Magikarp)Plain Crepe a la Cube: “A lot of sweet things and a few gray” – 3 sweet ingredients and 2 gray ingredients
3 Bulk Berries & 2 Fossils
2 Bulk Berries, 1 Honey & 2 Fossils (good)
2 Bulk Berries, 1 Honey & 2 Balm Mushrooms (very good)
2 Honey, 1 Bulk Berry & 2 Balm Mushrooms (very good)
3 Honey & 2 Balm Mushrooms (special)
Lures Normal Pokemon (Rattata, Tauros, Chansey, Jigglypuff, Meouth, Kangaskhan, Ditto, Eevee, Porygon, Snorlax)Mud Pie a la Cube: “A few minerals and a lot of soft things” – 2 mineral ingredients and 3 soft ingredients
3 Tiny Mushroom & 2 Fossils
2 Bulk Berries, 2 Fossils & 1 Tiny Mushroom
2 Icy Rock, 1 Honey, 1 Tiny Mushroom & 1 Bulk Berry
2 Tiny Mushroom, 1 Icy Rock, 1 Honey & 1 Fossil
2 Bulk Berries, 2 Tiny Mushroom & 1 Honey
2 Fossils, 1 Bulk Berry, 1 Tiny Mushroom & 1 Big Root
3 Tiny Mushroom & 2 Icy Rocks (good)
2 Icy Rocks, 2 Honey & 1 Bulk Berry (very good)
1 Big Root, 1 Bulk Berry, 1 Balm Mushroom, 1 Fossil & 1 Icy Rock (very good)
3 Honey & 2 Icy Rocks (special)
3 Big Roots & 2 Icy Rocks (special)
Lures Ground Pokemon (Sahdshrew, Geodude, Onix, Rhyhorn)Stone Soup a la Cube: “A whole lot of hard things and a few minerals” – 4 hard ingredients and 2 mineral ingredients
3 Fossils & 2 Apricorns
2 Fossils, 2 Icy Stones & 1 Big Root
3 Fossils, 1 Apricorn & 1 Icy Rock
2 Fossils, 2 Apricorns & 1 Bulk Berry
3 Fossils, 1 Bulk Berry & 1 Apricorn
2 Icy Rocks, 1 Fossil & 2 Apricorns (good)
2 Apricorns, 2 Fossils & 1 Icy Rock (good)
3 Icy Rocks, 1 Fossil & 1 Apricorn (very good)
2 Icy Rocks, 1 Big Root, 1 Apricorn & 1 Fossil (very good)
3 Icy Rocks, 1 Fossil & 1 Apricorn (very good)
3 Icy Rocks, 1 Fossil & 1 Rainbow Matter (special)
Lures Rock Pokemon (Geodude, Rhyhorn, Onix, Omanyte, Kabuto, Aerodactyl)Hot Pot a la Cube: “A lot of mushrooms and a little red” – 3 mushrooms and 1 red
3 Tiny Mushrooms & 2 Bulk Berries
3 Tiny Mushrooms & 2 Apricorns
3 Tiny Mushrooms & 2 Balm Mushroom
2 Tiny Mushrooms, 1 Big Root, 1 Balm Mushroom & 1 Honey
2 Tiny Mushrooms, 1 Balm Mushroom & 2 Bulk Berries (good)
3 Tiny Mushrooms & 2 Honey (good)
3 Balm Mushrooms & 2 Big Roots (special)
Lures Fire Pokemon (Charmander, Growlith, Vulpix, Ponyta, Magmar)Sludge Soup a la Cube: “A whole lot of mushrooms and a lot of soft things” – 4 mushrooms and 3 soft
3 Tiny Mushrooms & 2 Balm Mushrooms
3 Balm Mushrooms & 2 Tiny Mushrooms (very good)
2 Balm Mushrooms, 2 Tiny Mushrooms & 1 Big Root (very good)
2 Balm Mushrooms, 2 Tiny Mushrooms, 1 Rainbow Matter (very good)
3 Balm Mushrooms, 1 Tiny Mushrooms, 1 Big Root (very good)
3 Balm Mushrooms, 1 Tiny Mushrooms, 1 Rainbow Matter (special)
Lures Poison Pokemon (Bulbasaur, Nidoran, Ekans, Zubat, Grimer, Gastly, Koffing)Veggie Smoothie a la Cube: “A whole lot of plants and a few soft things” – 4 plants and 2 soft
3 Big Roots, 1 Balm Mushroom, & 1 Apricorn
1 Big Root, 1 Balm Mushroom, & 3 Apricorns
2 Big Roots, 2 Apricorns & 1 Fossil
3 Apricorns, 1 Tiny Mushroom & 1 Big Root (good)
3 Big Roots & 2 Apricorns (very good)
3 Big Roots, 1 Apricorn & 1 Rainbow Matter (special)
Lures Grass Pokemon (Bulbasaur, Oddish, Bellsprout, Exeggcute, Tangela)Brain Food a la Cube: “A lot of sweet things and a few hard things” – 3 sweet and 2 hard
3 Bulk Berries & 2 Apricons
3 Bulk Berries, 1 Apricorn & 1 Fossil
2 Bulk Berries, 1 Honey, 1 Apricorn & 1 Fossil
2 Bulk Berries, 1 Honey & 2 Apricorns (good)
2 Honey, 1 Icy Rock, 1 Apricorn & 1 Bulk Berry (very good)
Lures Psychic Pokemon (Abra, Slowpoke, Exeggcute, Drowzee, Mr. Mime, Jynx)Watt a Risotto a la Cube: “A whole lot of soft things and a lot of yellow” – 4 soft and 3 yellow
2 Tiny Mushrooms, 2 Honey, 1 Apricorn
2 Honey, 1 Big Root, 1 Balm Mushroom & 1 Apricorn (very good)
2 Honey, 1 Apricorn & 2 Big Root (very good)
3 Honey, 1 Big Root & 1 Ice Rock (special)
3 Honey, 1 Balm Mushroom & 1 Big Root (special)
Lures Electric Pokemon (Pikachu, Voltorb, Magnemite, Electabuzz)Get Swole Syrup a la Cube: “A lot of sweet things and a few mushrooms” – 3 sweet and 2 mushrooms
2 Bulk Berries, 1 Honey & 2 Tiny Mushrooms
2 Bulk Berries, 1 Honey, 1 Tiny Mushroom & 1 Balm Mushroom (good)
Lures Fighting Pokemon (Mankey, Machop, Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee)Honey Nectar a la Cube: “A whole lot of sweet things and a lot of yellow” – 4 sweet and 3 yellow
3 Honey & 2 Bulk Berries
2 Bulk Berries, 2 Honey, 1 Apricorn (good)
3 Honey, 1 Icy Rock & 1 Bulk Berry (very good)
3 Honey, 1 Bulk Berry & 1 Rainbow Matter (special)
Lures Bug Pokemon (Caterpie, Weedle, Paras, Venonat, Scyther, Pinsir)Light-as-Air Casserole a la Cube: “A lot of minerals and a few plants.” – 3 minerals and 2 plants
2 Fossils, 2 Big Roots, 1 Icy Stone
3 Fossils & 2 Big Roots
3 Icy Rocks & 2 Big Roots (special)
Lures Flying Pokemon (Pidgey, Spearow, Zubat, Farfetch’d, Doduo, Scyther, Aerodactyl)Ambrosia of Legends a la Cube: “A whole lot of mystical things.”
1 Mystical Shell & 4 Any Ingredient
3 Mystical Shell & 2 Rainbow Matter (good)
5 Mystical Shell (special)
Lures extremely rare Pokemon (Mew, Mewtwo, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres)
Important: According to the Pokemon subreddit, you won’t get an Ambrosia of Legends by putting in five Rainbow Matter. You’ll just get a Mulligan Stew if you do that.
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