Pokemon Quest Cooking Ingredients Guide

From our Pokemon Quest Cooking Guide, you already know that cooking in Pokemon Quest is one of the essential activities. With the help of cooking, you attract new wild Pokemon to your team. And what can be more engaging than seeing your Base Camp replenishing with new members and the index of the Team Strength increasing?

The more Pokemon you have on your team, the more successful the team becomes on expeditions. If you attract some stronger types of Pokemon with cooking, then you greatly increase your chances in battles with enemies bosses.

To give you even more in-depth details on cooking in Pokemon Quest we decided to share with you data on cooking ingredients. There are 18 recipes in Pokemon Quest, and each of them has an exact list of ingredients needed.

How to get ingredients?

All the ingredients available for cooking can be found on expeditions. When you defeat a Pokemon in a fight, it drops some ingredients, and you can pick up them. Then bring to your Base Camp and use them for cooking.

What ingredients are there in Pokemon Quest?

There are 8 simple (or standard) ingredients you can find on expeditions and use for cooking. They are all divided by their characteristics and purpose. Each ingredient can become a part of the certain dish which attracts a particular type of Pokemon. The more complex dish you prepare, the stronger Pokemon come to your team.

There are also two Rare ingredients: Rainbow Matter and Mystical Shell. They are used to attract some legendary Pokemon. As these Pokemon are powerful, the Rare ingredients are challenging to find.

Ingredient	Type of ingredient	Icon	Color	Features	Recipes with ingredient
Apricorn	Small		Yellow	Hard / Small / Plant	Yellow Curry à la Cube, Veggie Smoothie à la Cube, Honey Nectar à la Cube, Brain Food à la Cube, Stone Soup à la Cube, Watt a Risotto à la Cube
Balm Mushroom	Precious		Gray	Soft / Precious / Mushroom	Grey Porridge à la Cube, Plain Crepe à la Cube, Sludge Soup à la Cube, Veggie Smoothie à la Cube, Hot Pot à la Cube, Watt a Risotto à la Cube
Tiny Mushroom	Small		Red	Soft / Small / Mushroom	Red Stew à la Cube, Mouth-Watering Dip à la Cube, Sludge Soup à la Cube, Mud Pie à la Cube, Veggie Smoothie à la Cube, Hot Pot à la Cube, Watt a Risotto à la Cube, Get Swole Syrup à la Cube
Big Root	Precious		Red	Soft / Precious / Big / Plant	Red Stew à la Cube, Veggie Smoothie à la Cube, Light-as-Air Casserole à la Cube, Hot Pot à la Cube, Watt a Risotto à la Cube
Bluk Berry	Small		Blue	Soft / Small / Sweet	Blue Soda à la Cube, Mouth-Watering Dip à la Cube, Plain Crepe à la Cube, Honey Nectar à la Cube, Brain Food à la Cube, Hot Pot à la Cube, Get Swole Syrup à la Cube
Fossil	Small		Gray	Hard / Small / Mineral	Grey Porridge à la Cube, Plain Crepe à la Cube, Stone Soup à la Cube, Light-as-Air Casserole à la Cube,
Honey	Precious		Yellow	Soft / Precious / Sweet	Yellow Curry à la Cube, Mouth-Watering Dip à la Cube, Plain Crepe à la Cube, Mud Pie à la Cube, Honey Nectar à la Cube, Brain Food à la Cube, Watt a Risotto à la Cube, Get Swole Syrup à la Cube
Icy Rock	Precious		Blue	Hard / Precious / Mineral	Blue Soda à la Cube, Mouth-Watering Dip à la Cube, Mud Pie à la Cube, Brain Food à la Cube, Stone Soup à la Cube, Light-as-Air Casserole à la Cube
Mystical Shell	Precious		N/A	Special	Ambrosia of Legends à la Cube
Rainbow Matter	Precious		N/A	Substitutes any ingredient	Mulligan Stew à la Cube, Sludge Soup à la Cube, Honey Nectar à la Cube, Stone Soup à la Cube, Ambrosia of Legends à la Cube

How many ingredients to use in recipes?

In Pokemon Quest, the recipes have a description and the needed amount of ingredients. All the ingredients you’ve earned on your expeditions can be used in cooking.

For example, to cook Stone Soup a la Cube, you need “a whole lot of hard things and a few minerals.”

Using the table below, you will find out Hard and Mineral ingredients. You can take Apricorn and Icy Rock, for instance.

Then you need to sort out the definition of “a whole lot”. This category is advisable when it comes to the number of cooking slots. As you progress in Pokemon Quest, the more slots on the cooking pots become available.

• "A little" - 1 Cooking Slot.
• "A few" - 2 Cooking Slots.
• "A lot" - 3 Cooking Slots.
• "A whole lot" - 4 Cooking Slots.

In some recipes, you might even find more detailed descriptions where the amount of components is already specified. Stone Soup a la Cube requires 4 Hard and 2 Mineral ingredients. Apricorn is Hard (x4), and Icy Rock is Mineral (x2). So you will take the needed number of components and mingle them in the Cooking Pot.  

Using the tips in our Pokemon Quest Ingredients Guide, you won’t ever go wrong with ingredients. Moreover, you can make your experiments in cooking, adding different components on a similar recipe.

How to use Rare Ingredients?

There are two Rare ingredients in Pokemon Quest, which can help you attract the most powerful Pokemon to your team.

• Rainbow Matter is a super-rare ingredient with awesome features. It can substitute any ingredient in Pokemon Quest which is required for the recipe.

Let’s pretend, you want to prepare Light-as-Air Casserole à la Cube to attract a Flying-type Pokemon. You have the needed Mineral ingredients, but the Plant ones are already recycled. Then take Rainbow Matter and replace the Plant ingredients with it. Beneficial component, indeed.

• Mystical Shell is a Special ingredient that can be rewarded only in expeditions. Sometimes it is just dropped on the ground, so always keep an eye for it. This item gives you higher chances to see rare and mystical Pokemon come to your Base Camp. 

With this only ingredient, you can cook Ambrosia of Legends à la Cube to attract a few legendary Pokemon. Use a different amount of Mystical Shell to gain different kinds of Pokemon.

1. 2 Mystical Shell + 2 Rainbow Matter = a chance to attract Mew.
2. 3 Mystical Shell + 2 other ingredients = a chance to attract Articuno, Zapdos, or Moltres.
3. 5 Mystical Shell = a chance to attract Mewtwo.

Ingredients location: where to find different ingredients?

The ingredients you can find will depend on the expedition you pass. Some levels will bring you more Red ingredients, less Grey and Yellow, and almost no or no at all Blue. So ingredients location is strongly affected by the location your Pokemon go on the expedition.

The twelfth level with its Happenstance Island location has other conditions regarding ingredients. This is the special stage of Pokemon Quest, so all ingredients are equal here. It is most likely, you will find Mystical Shell here or get them through the fight with the final boss.

How to improve a recipe?

You can greatly improve any recipe by including Precious ingredients to them. As you know, the quality of your recipe affects the rarity of the Pokemon attracted. So you have more chances to draw powerful Pokemon to your Base Camp by making Good and Very Good dishes. With a Special dish, you can even attract some legendary Pokemon.

Take note, that Rainbow Matter estimates as two Precious ingredients.

• Normal quality: 0 Precious ingredients.
• Good quality: 1-2 Precious ingredients.
• Very Good quality: 3-4 Precious ingredients.
• Special quality: 5 Precious ingredients.

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Using our Pokemon Quest Cooking Ingredients Guide and Pokemon Quest Cooking Guide you can do your best in Pokemon Quest cooking. Read Pokemon Quest Recipes and make your own culinary experiments. Still the Pokemon hunger, and thus make your Pokemon team even more powerful.