Heartopia recipes: complete cooking guide and list of all dishes

Cooking in Heartopia isn't just a hobby! It's essential for completing your recipe collection, regaining energy and collecting gold coins. In this guide, I'll explain how to unlock the cooking hobby and give you a full list of Heartopia recipes so you never waste your ingredients again.

How do I unlock cooking in Heartopia?

Cooking is one of the hobbies available in the game. So before you can cook recipes in Heartopia, you'll need to unlock it. Here's how to do it, step by step.

1. Reaching D.G. Member level 5

When you reach D.G. Member level 5, you'll get a hobby extension voucher that you can give to one of the mentors. These are NPCs dedicated to hobbies. At this stage, you've already unlocked fishing and gardening. You now have a choice of hobbies:

• Cooking
• Insect Catching
• Bird watching

⚡ Good to know: I highly recommend unlocking Cooking at level 5. This hobby lets you use fish from fishing and vegetables from gardening. If you miss out, you can always unlock the cooking hobby at level 8 or level 11.

2. Give Massimo a hobby expansion voucher

Massimo is the kitchen NPC, the one who will unlock the recipes in Heartopia. Massimo is in the north-east of the town, in front of his cooking stall. Start a chat with him and give him your hobby expansion voucher. Now you can start cooking.

⚡My advice: if you don't know what hobby extension vouchers are, I'd recommend checking out my Heartopia beginner's guide!

The basics: How to cook successfully in Heartopia

Have you unlocked the kitchen? Now let's take a look at how to prepare recipes in Heartopia.

Where do you find the ingredients for your recipes?

To cook in Heartopia, you obviously need ingredients. Here's how to find them:

• The "gardening" hobby: at this stage, you've already unlocked this hobby with the White NPC. I recommend that you quickly plant your first tomato seeds, then potatoes, to harvest the ingredients for your future recipes in Heartopia.
  
  
  
  
• The 'fishing' hobby : Here too, you should have unlocked fishing with Vanya. Catch as many fish as you can to be able to cook them later!
• Harvesting: You'll find fruit bushes around the houses in Heartopia. Go and pick blueberries or raspberries to prepare sweet Heartopia recipes!
• Buying ingredients: look out for the White NPC. He'll sell you the ingredients you need to cook. You'll find eggs, meat, milk and more.

Learning recipes in Heartopia

To cook, you'll need to learn recipes:

• Complete the tasks of the inhabitants or the gossip quests: some of them will give you recipes, such as the one for mushroom pie.
• Develop your cooking hobby: the more you cook, the higher your level, and the more recipes you can unlock in Heartopia.
• Buy from Massimo: this NPC can also sell you recipes. Check with him regularly!

⚡ My tip : another NPC can sell you special recipes. To find her, check out my guide to Doris's locations!

The cooking interface explained

You've got the ingredients and the recipes? Now you can get cooking! Here's a step-by-step guide to the cooking mini-game:

1. Interact with the cook, just behind Massimo
2. Select one of the Heartopia recipes you've unlocked
   
   
   
   
3. Now select the ingredients
4. All you have to do is click on "Cook" to prepare the pie.

Warning : pay attention when the dish is cooking. You'll need to click on the round icon above the pan at the right moment to prevent your dish from burning.

You can now cook any Heartopia recipe!

Complete list of Heartopia recipes

Here is an index of all the recipes discovered to date:

What are the cooked dishes for?

Cooking the recipes in Heartopia isn't just a way of improving your cooking skills. It also allows you to..:

• Earn gold coins : all your dishes can be sold, and some are very expensive! Sell your dishes to Albert JR.
• Gain energy: I advise you to carry a stock of food with you. When you eat a dish, you recover energy and can continue your activities.
• Complete quests: some NPCs may ask you to prepare specific Heartopia recipes.

Cooking requires patience to unlock all the recipes, but it's the most lucrative activity. Now you know how to unlock and cook Heartopia recipes. At Mobi.gg, we have a number of other guides to help you on your way:

• The crossbreeding guide
• The house-building guide
• The animal food guide

Enjoy the game!