This Crimson Desert Cooking Recipes Guide details all cooking recipes, where to find them, and the ingredients required to cook them in the game. Cooking in Crimson Desert is a very useful system that lets you turn the items you collect into powerful food. These meals help you recover health, refill stamina, and even protect you from elemental damage during fights. At the start, you only know a few recipes, but you can mix different ingredients to make your own food.
Cooking Recipes Guide – Crimson Desert
You don’t have to rely only on finding recipes in books or locations in the game. You can also discover them by trying different ingredient combinations. When you successfully create a dish without knowing it beforehand, you gain an “insight”. After repeating this three times, the recipe becomes permanently unlocked.
Another important point is that ingredients are flexible. Most items belong to a category, so you can swap them with similar ones. For example, if a recipe needs oats, you can use any grain, like lentils, instead. However, some items, such as salt, sugar, cooking oil, water, and fish fillets, cannot be replaced.
Also, every time you unlock a recipe, you automatically gain higher versions of it that use more ingredients for better effects. For simplicity, only the base recipes are listed below.
Grilled Recipes
These are the simplest recipes in the game. Each one only needs a single ingredient, and you already know all of them from the start.
| Food | Ingredients | Where to Get |
| Toasted grains | 1Grain Oats | N/A |
| Grilled fruit | 1 fruit, like an apple | N/A |
| Small grilled fish | 1 small fish | N/A |
| Grilled bird meat | 1 bird’s meat | N/A |
| Grilled meat | 1 meat | N/A |
| Grilled pincers | 1 pincer | N/A |
| Grilled seafood | 1 seafood, like squid | N/A |
| Grilled fish | 1 fish | N/A |
| Large grilled fish | 1 large fish | N/A |
| Smoked eggs | 1 egg | N/A |
| Grilled vegetables | 1 vegetable | N/A |
Field Grill Recipes
These meals combine multiple ingredients.
| Food | Ingredients | Effect | Where to Get |
| Chewy rice cakes | 4 grains, 2 fruits, 2 eggs, 3 Oil | It recovers your health and spirit. Also adds fire resistance | You can get this in a Building in Hernand, specifically near the grocery shop |
| Braised fish | 1 fruit, 2 fish fillets | It restores your health and spirit. Also adds fire resistance | You can buy from Dahlia’s Inn (Hernand) |
| Salt-roasted fish | 1 fish, 3 salt | Restores health | Rodbel Fishing Docks (east of Hernand) |
| Battered meat | 1 meat, 1 egg, 3 oil | N/A | N/A |
| Braised meat | 1 meat, 1 fruit | It restores your health and spirit. Also adds fire resistance | You can get it near the inn in Kharonso |
| Pickled vegetables | 1 fruit, 1 sugar | It restores spirit. Also adds fire resistance | Dahlia’s Inn |
| Battered grains | 1 grain, 1 egg | This one restores health | Drop from Reed enemies in the Frozen Souls area |
| Meat skewers | 1 meat, 1 salt | It restores your health and spirit. Also adds fire resistance | Calphade |
| Fish skewers | 1 vegetable, 2 fish/fillet | It recovers your health. It also gives you containers | Drinking hall in Beighen |
| Battered meat & fish | 1 vegetable, 2 fish/fillet, 3 eggs, 3 Oil | It recovers your health. Also adds fire resistance | Behind the counter in Dahlia’s Inn |
| Battered seafood | 2 seafood, 2 vegetables, 2 eggs, 3 Oil | It restores your health and spirit. Also adds fire resistance | Greymane Camp |
| Pan-fried marinated meat | 3 meats, 2 fruits, 2 vegetables, 3 oils | It recovers your health. It also gives you containers | Inn in Calphade |
| Grilled meat & fish | 1 meat, 1 fish | N/A | N/A |
| Vegetable rice cake | 4 vegetables, 2 fruits, 1 egg, 2 salt | It restores your health and spirit. Also adds fire resistance to Level. 4 | Locked room east Hernand |
| Salt-roasted bird meat | 1 bird meat, 1 salt | It restores your health and spirit. Also adds fire resistance | Drop from Crow Brother enemies |
| Battered vegetables | 1 vegetable, 1 egg | It recovers your health and spirit. | House in Beighen |
| Assorted braised fish | 2 grains, 2 vegetables, 4 fillets, 1 egg, 4 oil | It restores your health. | Inn in Demeniss City |
Field Pot Recipes (Soups & Porridge)
| Food | Ingredients | Effect | Where to Get |
| Fish porridge (fillet) | 1 grain, 2 fillets, 1 salt, 3 water | It restores your health. Also adds ice resistance | Renee’s Request quest |
| Fish porridge (fish) | 5 fish, 5 grains, 1 salt, 3 water | It restores your health. Also adds ice resistance | Same quest as above |
| Meat & vegetable porridge | 2 meat, 3 vegetables, 2 grains, 3 Water | It restores your health and Spirit | Hernand Castle kitchen |
| Meat & fish porridge (fillet) | 2 meat, 3 grains, 2 fillets, 3 Water | It quickly restores your health over time. Also adds ice resistance | You can buy it at an Inn in Kharonso |
| Meat & fish porridge (fish) | 2 meat, 1 small fish, 3 grains, 3 Water | It quickly restores your health over time. Also adds ice resistance | Same as above |
| Fishball soup (fillet) | 2 grains, 1 vegetable, 2 fillets, 1 salt, 3 water | It restores your health. Also adds ice resistance | Near Hernand jail |
| Fishball soup (fish) | 1 fish, 2 grains, 1 vegetable, 1 salt, 3 water | It restores your health. Also adds ice resistance | Same as above |
| Clear soup | 1 meat, 1 grain, 1 water | It quickly restores your health over time. Also adds ice resistance | Main story reward |
| Steamed eggs | 1 vegetable, 5 eggs, 2 salt, 3 water | N/A | N/A |
| Fruit punch | 1 fruit, 1 grain, 1 water | Slow health & spirit regen, ice resistance | You can buy it at the Inn in Kharonso |
| Braised ribs | 4 meat, 2 vegetables, 2 fruits, 3 Water | It slowly restores your health, and your spirit heals quickly. Also adds ice resistance | Hernand Castle Floor after the fight |
| Meat soup | 4 meat, 1 grain, 1 salt, 3 water | It will restore your health | You can buy it at the Inn in Pailune |
| Bird soup | 2 bird meat, 2 vegetables, 1 ginseng, 1 salt, 3 water | Health, stamina, and spirit regenerate over time | You can buy it at the Inn in Pailune |
| Vegetable juice | 1 vegetable, 2 water | This one will restore your stamina | Porrorin Forest Village |
| Vegetable seafood porridge | 1 seafood, 3 vegetables, 2 grains, 3 Water | N/A | You can buy it at the Greymane Camp |
Special Griddle Recipes
| Food | Ingredients | Effect | Where to Get |
| Pan-fried rice cakes | 3 grains, 1 pincer, 2 fine meat, 2 eggs, 4 Oil | This meal provides benefits to your health | This one can be purchased at Dahlia’s Inn |
| Braised fish & vegetables | 3 vegetables, 1 fruit, 4 fillets, 3 Oil | N/A | N/A |
| Grilled meat patties | 3 meats, 3 vegetables, 3 fruits, 3 eggs, 3 Oil | N/A | N/A |
Special Pot Recipes
| Food | Ingredients | Effect | Where to Get |
| Steamed fish | 2 medium fish, 1 fruit, 2 grains, 3 Water | It restores your health and spirit. Also adds ice resistance | Reventine Winery, Demeniss |
| Meatball soup | 3 fine meats, 3 vegetables, 1 seafood, 3 eggs, 4 Water | N/A | N/A |
| Seafood stew | 2 pincers, 2 fruits, 1 egg, 3 water | It restores your health and spirit. Also adds ice resistance | N/A |
| Boiled meat | 3 fine meats, 3 vegetables, 3 milk, 1 salt, 3 water | It restores your health and spirit. Also adds ice resistance | N/A |
| Mixed stew | 2 seafood, 3 bird meat, 2 grains, 2 vegetables, 5 Water | N/A | N/A |
Feast Recipes
| Food | Ingredients | Effect |
| Special meal | 3 grains, 3 meat & fish skewers, 2 boiled meat, 2 fruits | This meal increases the spirit bar beyond the limit |
| Herby special meal | 3 fruits, 3 grains, 3 skewers, 3 boiled meat, 2 coffee cherries | It restores your spirit bar beyond its limit. Also adds ice resistance |
| Tart special meal | 2 fruits, 3 grains, 3 skewers, 2 boiled meat, 2 skyroot | Reduces stamina usage by 10% |
| Extravagant meal | 1 grilled meat steak, 1 meatball soup, 2 pan-fried vegetables, 5 pears | N/A |
Ingredients For Substitution
Ingredients are grouped into categories, which allows easy swapping while cooking.
- Fruits: Apples, raspberries, elderberries, blackberries, blueberries, pomegranate, fig, peach, tomato, strawberry, grape, orange, pear, shineberry, pineapple, desert melon, coffee cherry, cacao.
- Vegetables: Potato, carrot, onion, flax, cucumber, turnip, beet, garlic, sweet potato, pumpkin, cabbage, parsley, wild garlic, asparagus, fennel.
- Grains: Lentils, peas, beans, barley, wheat, buckwheat, corn, oats.
- Pincers: Freshwater clam, blue crab, freshwater crab, crayfish.
- Small Fish: Ricefish, small blackbrow bleak, small minnow, small spirlin, small gudgeon, small rasbora, pond loach, red tonguesole, mackerel, threeline grunt, tench, perch, bass, yellow bass, leopard perch, crucian carp.
- Normal Fish: Northern pike, catfish, carp, lenok, burbot, salmon, sockeye salmon, trout, freshwater eel, opaleye, red seabream, blackhead seabream, barred knifejaw, saw-edged perch.
- Large Fish: Striped marlin, sturgeon, electric eel, giant pong louch, crimson opaleye, anglerfish, giant red seabream, paddlefish, broadnose sevengill shark, sailfish.
- Meats: Tough meat, lean meat, tender meat, fine meat, marbled meat, lean bird meat, bird meat.
This guide is currently a work-in-progress, and we are adding more recipes to this guide as we find them. In the meantime, check out additional Crimson Desert guides linked below:
- Crimson Desert Weapons Guide – All Types, Upgrade Weapons
- Things to Do First in Crimson Desert
- Things Crimson Desert Doesn’t Tell You
- Best Skills to Get First in Crimson Desert
- Crimson Desert Dyes Locations Guide – All Dye Colors, How to Get
This concludes our Crimson Desert Cooking Recipes Guide. If you want to add anything to this guide, feel free to use the comments section below.
