Recipes - Pokemon Quest Guide - IGN (2024)

This page covers how Recipes work in Pokemon Quest, how to unlock different cooking pots, a list of Pokemon Quest recipes, and more about attracting certain Pokemon. Watch the video below for a short primer on how to use all of this information.

In Pokemon Quest, obtaining new Pokemon isn't like other games - you won't be battling wild pokemon to throw Poke Balls at - there are no trainers in this game! Instead, you'll need to collect ingredients and cook up some tasty stews to attract potential pokemon to your side. See below for more information on how cooking works, and which food will help you get the right Pokemon for the job.

Cooking Pots

There are 4 different cooking pots in the game which require increasingly larger amounts of ingredients but reward the player with higher level Pokemon each time.

Recipe Terminology

There are certain words used in recipes which hint at which ingredients, and how much, need to be used to get a certain result. First, the words that describe how much of an ingredient needs to be used isn't at all arbituary.

Then, the recipe will describe the ingredients.

Recipe Quality

Each recipe has a quality which determines the length of time the recipe will take before it's ready and the rarity of the Pokémon that will be brought to the camp. Adding Precious or Very Precious ingredients increases the quality points of a recipe, Small ingredients being worth 1 point, Precious being worth 2, Very Precious ingredients are worth 3 points and Mystical are worth 4.

Generally, Special Quality recipes will attract much rarer Pokemon that will not appear otherwise.

For more details on which Pokémon are summoned by a recipe, see individual Recipe pages, listed below.

Rainbow Matter is able to be used in any recipe to add 3 points to the quality of the recipe, however it will not act as fulfilling its requirements. This means that certain recipes are impossible to boost with Rainbow Matter (especially if the recipe requires 4 of a certain ingredient type which doesn't overlap with another type) and the result will always be Mulligan.

Pokemon Quest Recipes

All recipes require 5 sets of ingredients to be added to the pot, the actual number required depending on which pot you are using. Most recipes can be made in several different ways such as Red Stew being made from 5 sets of Tiny Mushroom, 5 sets of Big Root or a combination of each. You can also fulfill more than one criteria with one ingredient, such as Tiny Mushroom fulfilling the need for Soft and Mushroom Ingredients in Sludge Soup.

When you use ingredients that fulfill the Ingredients criteria of multiple recipes, the game will go down the list below starting at #2 and assign the first recipe it comes across to that set of ingredients (assigning to Mulligan should it not find a recipe at all). On the individual recipe pages linked below, these have all been resolved so that if you use the ingredients listed, it will create the correct recipe.

Adding a larger amount of precious ingredients will increase the chance of gaining a rarer Pokémon.

Click on the individual recipe to see exact ingredients and which specific Pokemon it attracts.

Only the pre-evolutions and non-evolving Pokémon can be attracted through recipes, evolved forms must be gained through leveling those Pokémon. Most Pokémon outside of legendaries can be attracted by more than one recipe, check individual recipe pages for details on what that recipe attracts.