Cooking in Pokémon Pokopia helps you upgrade abilities and give gifts to Pokémon.
There are 4 food types, each with 6 recipes (total 24).
How Cooking Works
You need a station + basic ingredient:
- Salad → Chopping Board + Leaf
- Soup → Cooking Pot + Stove + Fresh Water
- Bread → Bread Oven + Wheat + Burn Pokémon
- Hamburger Steak → Frying Pan + Stove + Bean
Food Effects (Why Cooking Matters)
Each food upgrades a specific ability:
- Salad → Improves Leafage (pull more grass, moss, duckweed)
- Soup → Improves Water Gun (hits more tiles)
- Bread → Improves Cut (cut faster, wider, break objects)
- Hamburger Steak → Improves Rock Smash (break stronger rocks, ores)
All Recipes (Simple View)
Salad Recipes
- Simple Salad → Leaf + Any
- Leppa Salad → Leaf + Leppa Berry (Sweet)
- Seaweed Salad → Leaf + Seaweed (Bitter)
- Shredded Salad → Leaf + Any (Sour, Chop)
- Crushed-berry Salad → Leaf + Chesto Berry (Dry, Crush)
- Crouton Salad → Leaf + Bread (Spicy)
Soup Recipes
- Simple Soup → Water + Any x2
- Seaweed Soup → Water + Seaweed (Bitter)
- Mushroom Soup → Water + Cave Mushroom (Dry)
- Electrifying Soup → Water + Any (Spicy, Generate)
- Healthy Soup → Water + Bean + Leaf (Spicy)
- Flavourful Soup → Water + Aspear Berry + Hamburger Steak (Sour)
Bread Recipes
- Simple Bread → Wheat + Any
- Leppa Bread → Wheat + Leppa Berry (Sour)
- Carrot Bread → Wheat + Carrot (Spicy)
- Recycled Bread → Wheat + Carrot (Bitter, Recycle)
- Fluffy Bread → Wheat + Pecha Berry (Sweet, Water)
- Bread Bowl → Wheat + Soup (Spicy, Burn)
Hamburger Steak Recipes
- Hamburger Steak → Bean + Any x3
- Mushroom Steak → Bean + Mushroom (Dry)
- Tomato Steak → Bean + Tomato (Sour)
- Potato Steak → Bean + Potato (Sweet, Generate)
- Bitter Steak → Bean + Rawst Berry (Bitter)
- Vibrant Steak → Bean + Salad + Potato
Ingredients & Flavours (Quick Guide)
Crops
- Bean → Sweet
- Tomato → Sour
- Wheat → Dry
- Potato → Bitter
- Carrot → Spicy
- Seaweed → Bitter
- Mushroom → Dry
Berries
- Pecha → Sweet
- Aspear → Sour
- Rawst → Bitter
- Chesto → Dry
Drinks
- Soda Pop → Sour
- Moomoo Milk → Sweet
- Roserade Tea → Dry
- Chili Sauce → Spicy
Flavours (Important Use)
Flavours matter for:
- Pokémon gifts (each Pokémon has a favorite flavour)
- Buffs from Mosslax (daily bonus effect)
All flavours in game:
- Sweet
- Spicy
- Dry
- Bitter
- Sour
When You Unlock Cooking
You unlock cooking during the Rocky Ridges story while rescuing Chef Dente.
Quick Tip
You can also eat raw ingredients for quick PP or give them as gifts when needed.