Food in Pokémon Pokopia: All Recipes, How to Cook, and Effects

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In Pokémon Pokopia, Chef Dente's lessons allow players to prepare different food recipes using a wide variety of ingredients to create delicious dishes. Every Pokémon in the game's Pokédex has its own favorite foods that you can give it. Eating certain dishes can also temporarily increase the power of the special moves Ditto learns during the adventure.

Since cooking plays an important role in Pokopia, we've put together this entry of our guide to show you a complete list of all available food recipes, the ingredient requirements for making them, and their specific effects. If you want to become an expert chef, take a look!

How to unlock Chef Dente and learn to cook

The first step toward unlocking the cooking mechanics in Pokémon Pokopia is to progress far enough through the adventure to rescue Chef Dente. This special Pokémon can be found in the Rocky Ridges, trapped inside a barrel hanging from a chain in a building opposite the Pokémon Center:

At first, even if you try to cut the chain holding the barrel with the Cut move, you won't be able to break it. However, Chef Dente gives you several hints about what to do next. First, you'll need to obtain a Cutting Board and prepare a salad.

To learn the recipe for crafting a Cutting Board, you must first make Dartrix appear in the biome. To do so, you'll need to create the Pointy Tree-Shaded Rocky Tall Grass habitat, which requires placing a boulder beside a pointy tree and four patches of red tall grass.

Once you've befriended Dartrix, you'll be able to craft Cutting Boards at a Workbench. You only need two pieces of Lumber to make one. Afterward, place the Cutting Board somewhere and interact with it. Add two Leaves to prepare a Simple Salad.

Eating the salad temporarily powers up Leafage. While the move is powered up, you can use it on rocky terrain to create moss. Your next objective is to create the Mossy Hot Spring habitat by placing four patches of moss beside hot-spring water. This will make Torkoal appear.

Once you have Torkoal, clear the path between its habitat and the Pokémon Center so that it can teach you the Bread Oven recipe. You can craft one using Stone x2, Small Log x2, and Volcanic Ash x4. After building it, place three Wheat inside to bake bread.

Eating the bread will then increase the power of Cut, allowing you to free Chef Dente from the barrel. After rescuing them, keep talking to Chef Dente to accept additional requests. This will also allow you to unlock the Frying Pan recipe and learn how to make hamburger steaks. From this point onward, you'll have access to the game's cooking and meal-preparation mechanics and can start making the most of them.

All special food recipes

Pokémon Pokopia generally allows you to prepare up to 24 different food recipes divided into four categories: six types of salad, six types of soup, six types of bread, and six types of hamburger steak.

Each category or type of dish requires specific ingredients and the appropriate cooking equipment—or, in some cases, a Pokémon with a particular specialty. Below, we'll show you every recipe, along with its requirements and other details:

Salad recipes

Salads are prepared on a Cutting Board and always use a Leaf as their main ingredient. These are the different salad recipes:

Recipe	Ingredients and requirements	Flavor
Simple Salad	Leaf x1 Any ingredient x1	No flavor
Leppa Salad	Leaf x1 Leppa Berry x1	Sweet
Seaweed Salad	Leaf x1 Seaweed x1	Bitter
Shredded Salad	Leaf x1 Any ingredient x1 Use a Pokémon with the Chop specialty	Sour
Crushed-Berry Salad	Leaf x1 Chesto Berry x1 Use a Pokémon with the Crush specialty	Dry
Crouton Salad	Leaf x1 Any bread x1	Spicy

Soup recipes

Soups are prepared inside a Cooking Pot placed on top of a Stove or Campfire and always use Fresh Water as their main ingredient. These are the different soup recipes:

Recipe	Ingredients and requirements	Flavor
Simple Soup	Fresh Water x1 Any ingredient x2	No flavor
Seaweed Soup	Fresh Water x1 Seaweed x1 Any ingredient x1	Bitter
Mushroom Soup	Fresh Water x1 Cave Mushrooms x1 Any ingredient x1	Dry
Electrifying Soup	Fresh Water x1 Any ingredient x2 Use a Pokémon with the Generate specialty	Spicy
Healthy Soup	Fresh Water x1 Bean x1 Leaf x1	Spicy
Flavorful Soup	Fresh Water x1 Aspear Berry x1 Any hamburger steak x1	Sour

Bread recipes

Bread is prepared inside a lit Bread Oven after its firewood has been set alight and always uses Wheat as its main ingredient. These are the different bread recipes:

Recipe	Ingredients and requirements	Flavor
Simple Bread	Wheat x1 Any ingredient x2	No flavor
Leppa Bread	Wheat x1 Leppa Berry x1 Any ingredient x1	Sour
Carrot Bread	Wheat x1 Fresh Carrot x1 Any ingredient x1	Spicy
Recycled Bread	Wheat x1 Any bread x1 Any ingredient x1 Use a Pokémon with the Recycle specialty	Bitter
Fluffy Bread	Wheat x1 Pecha Berry x1 Any ingredient x1 Use a Pokémon with the Water specialty	Sweet
Bread Bowl	Wheat x1 Any soup x1 Any ingredient x1 Use a Pokémon with the Burn specialty	Spicy

Hamburger steak recipes

Hamburger steaks are prepared using a Frying Pan placed on top of a Stove or Campfire and always use a Bean as their main ingredient. These are the different hamburger steak recipes:

Recipe	Ingredients and requirements	Flavor
Simple Hamburger Steak	Bean x1 Any ingredient x3	No flavor
Mushroom Hamburger Steak	Bean x1 Cave Mushrooms x1 Any ingredient x2	Dry
Tomato Hamburger Steak	Bean x1 Tomato x1 Any ingredient x2	Sour
Potato Hamburger Steak	Bean x1 Potato x1 Any ingredient x2	Sweet
Bitter Hamburger Steak	Bean x1 Rawst Berry x1 Lum Berry x1 Any ingredient x1	Bitter
Vibrant Hamburger Steak	Bean x1 Any salad x1 Potato x1 Any ingredient x1	No flavor

Special food effects

As mentioned above, every food recipe in Pokémon Pokopia has special effects. Besides the different flavors of each dish—which may appeal more or less to the Pokémon you give them to and affect how quickly you increase their Comfy Level—each of the four recipe categories also powers up one of Ditto's moves.

The move upgrades are as follows:

• Salads power up Leafage: you can hold down ZR to create more grass. This also allows you to create moss on rocks and duckweed on water.
• Soups power up Water Gun: you can hold down ZR to increase the size of the splash.
• Bread powers up Cut: you can hold down ZR to increase the size of the cut and slice things from a distance. This also allows you to cut through tougher objects, such as metal fences.
• Hamburger steaks power up Rock Smash and Rollout: you can break blocks more quickly and destroy blocks made from tougher materials, including Gold Ore and Pokémetal Ore.

It goes without saying that these cooked meals also fully restore the PP of their associated moves. You'll be able to enjoy these useful upgrades for as long as the food's effect remains active, which is why we recommend always carrying dishes from every category in your inventory. Food never expires either, so you can use it whenever you need it.