Home » Articles » Guides » Stardew Valley Cooking Guide: How to make all Recipes (Fall)

Stardew Valley Cooking Guide: How to make all Recipes (Fall)

Welcome back again, Gourmet Chef in the making! This is part 3 of a series of complete cooking guides in Stardew Valley. Are you wondering how to get the recipe for that one dish, how you can make it, and where you can get the ingredients? Right here, you'll find everything you need to know about cooking in the season of nature's twilight - fall!

Isn’t fall great? All the great crops from summer are still there, making it the perfect season for harvest! Of course, all that harvesting costs energy. Not to mention all the mining, fighting, fishing, and home improvement-ing you can do! You’re going to need energy, and that brings us to one more activity you’re going to want to be doing in this great season of Stardew Valley – cooking!

That’s right – fall has some of the best cooking recipes of all seasons of Stardew Valley. From the great lucky lunch to the simple Survival Burger or the lucrative Tom Kha Soup – this season is one of plenty! Fall offers loads of possibilities to beef up your farmer. And as always, every new recipe brings you closer to that famous Gourmet Chef achievement. Only once you cooked them all, of course.

You came to the right place if you want to access the cooking of fall! This Stardew Valley cooking guide series contains four parts, one for every season. Every section also features the best ingredients to save up for use in other seasons. However, some dishes don’t fit in just any single season. As such, every part of this guide will also feature a section for seasonal dishes that you can also make in (in this case) fall. So without further ado, let’s face fall head-on!

In the meantime, check out some of our other guides on Stardew Valley:

Stardew Valley Cooking: Fall’s Best Ingredients to Save for Later

Beet

Where would we be without sugar? We'd be in a world without beets.

Where would we be without sugar? We’d be in a world without beets.

Although it may not seem like it, beets are a crucial element of cooking in Stardew Valley. They’re the source of one of the big three – milk, wheat flour, and in this case, sugar. This fast-growing crop takes only 6 days to mature and is very affordable to purchase at Pierre. However, to get sugar, you’ll once again have to face that old obstacle – the mill. If this is not the first guide you’re reading, you must be growing tired of hearing that the most valuable cooking ingredients are locked behind an expensive farm building. But the 50 stone, 100 wood, 4 cloth, and 2,500 gold are more than worth it for that steady supply of rice, wheat flour, and especially in fall, sugar!

 

Pumpkin

This has got to be the least surprising crop-season match of all of them.

This has got to be the least surprising crop-season match of all of them.

Of all the crops, in all the seasons, it’s difficult for any seasonal produce to be more iconic than the pumpkin is for fall. This great crop is featured a whopping three times in the dishes below, but that’s not the only reason why you should care. It’s one of the few crops that can produce a giant crop, and they are the most lucrative of all common crops. Only starfruit has a higher base price. It takes a while to grow them, 13 days, but that’s a time well spent.

 Wheat

The season of beet and wheat. I told you fall was great!

The season of beet and wheat. I told you fall was great!

Oh, did I forget to mention? Fall is harvest season for a reason! Some of the very best crops from summer continue to grow during fall. So you have another 28 days to cultivate and harvest some of the very best crops! Of course, I can’t leave wheat out. Possibly the default crop, wheat has a high crop yield and can give wheat flour through a mill. Wheat flour is a crucial ingredient in cooking, so use those 28 more days to your advantage!

Corn

Another old acquaintance from summer makes its appearance!

Another old acquaintance from summer makes its appearance!

Like wheat, corn is a crop that grows in both summer and fall. It keeps a continuous yield, so if you planted early, profit from the crops for two seasons straight! As such, all the reasons for saving corn in summer continue to apply in fall! Whether it’s for tortillas or oil, corn is a save bet for a prosperous farm. Especially heading into winter!

 

Sunflower

There's still plenty of sun left in fall for these little guys to grow!

There’s still plenty of sun left in fall for these little guys to grow!

The same goes for the sunflower. Although it’s not edible, nor directly used in any Stardew Valley cooking, it’s a phenomenal resource for oil. You’ll regularly find that pop up in all kinds of recipes. Sunflowers have quite a high crop yield and likely drop seeds when you harvest, so you can replant them without any cost. Isn’t that just the dream?

Fall Dishes

Artichoke Dip

There's not much to this dish, but it's pretty simple to make, too.

There’s not much to this dish, but it’s pretty simple to make, too.

Difficulty of gettingEasy
Difficulty of making
Easy

Worth to you

  • +100 Energy
  • +45 Health
    No additional effects

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Clint

Ingredients

  • 1 Artichoke
  • 1 Milk

How to get the recipe:

  • Queen of the Sauce, Fall 28, Year 1

Starting simple! The artichoke dip follows that low-effort low-reward rule which flies for most dishes. It offers a small health and energy boost, but nothing extraordinary, nor does it offer any stat boosts. That said, this dish is a good candidate to whip up when you happen to have some artichokes lying around.

Artichokes aren’t that tricky to get. You can simply buy the seeds from Pierre for a measly 30 gold. However, you can only get them starting in year 2. That gives you plenty of time to get the other ingredient – milk. If you’ve read earlier guides, you’ll know this story. You need an expensive barn and cows to get milk production flowing. Once you have a barn and you’re in year 2, you can make as many artichoke dips as you like, whenever you like. Do be aware that artichoke only grows in fall, though.

Autumn’s Bounty

All the best of fall makes a dish of plenty!

All the best of fall makes a dish of plenty!

Difficulty of gettingHard Difficulty of making
Easy

Worth to you

  • +220 Energy
  • +99 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +2 Foraging
  • +2 Defense
    Duration: 7 minutes, 41 seconds

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Lewis

Ingredients

  • 1 Pumpkin
  • 1 Yam

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach 7 hearts friendship with Demetrius

I just love the presentation of this dish. It suggests that it’s a collection of the very best fall has to offer, and ultimately it only consists of two ingredients. Whatever – at least that makes it a lot simpler, and this dish should be one you prepare regularly. I suppose with cooking in Stardew Valley, it’s all about not asking the why of things. It replenishes loads of health and energy and gives you decently long and pretty powerful buffs for fighting and foraging.

So with “bounty” between quotation marks, how should you make it? It all comes down to farming. Both yams and pumpkins grow in fall, and you can buy both in the General Store. Of course, getting a recipe this good takes a little effort. You have to reach 7 hearts of friendship with Demetrius. Although this takes some time, Demetrius certainly isn’t the hardest to befriend. Just give him some bean hotpots for example, and you’ll be golden!

Blackberry Cobbler

You can build an economy exclusively on blackberry cobblers.

You can build an economy exclusively on blackberry cobblers.

Difficulty of gettingHard Difficulty of making
Easy

Worth to you

  • +175 Energy
  • +78 Health
    No additional effects

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Abigail

Ingredients

  • 2 Blackberries
  • 1 Sugar
  • 1 Wheat flour

How to get the recipe:

  • Queen of the Sauce, Fall 14, Year 2

If you have a sweet tooth, a nice cobbler should be on your dishes-to-make list! And if you’re looking for a cobbler, consider a blackberry cobbler! Although it takes ages to get the recipe, only mid-fall of the second year, the dish is pretty easy to make. You can even make the entire dish without farming!

Blackberries are everywhere in the fall. Blackberry season hits between fall 8 and fall 11, so schedule some time on those days to take all those delicious blackberries back to your house. Then, all you have to do is add wheat flour and sugar, and done! You can get both at the General Store, but if your farm is a little more advanced, you can mill wheat and beets to make it yourself.

Cranberry Candy

There's fairly little reason to make this dish.

There’s fairly little reason to make this dish.

Difficulty of gettingEasy Difficulty of makingMedium

Worth to you

  • +125 Energy
  • +56 Health
    No additional effects

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Vincent

Ingredients

  • 1 Cranberry
  • 1 Apple
  • 1 Sugar

How to get the recipe:

  • Queen of the Sauce, Winter 28, Year 1

POV: You want to become friends with Vincent, or you don’t have cranberry sauce yet. I don’t want to hate any too much on any one dish, but this one kind of deserves it. It’s in almost every way a worse version of the dish below, cranberry sauce. I suppose that the old rule applies yet again – less effort tends to yield fewer results.

For the cranberry candy recipe, you have to wait until the final day of year 1 winter to get the recipe from the Queen of the Sauce. The dish is simple enough to make. The shops sell cranberry seeds for a pretty low price, and they take only 7 days to grow. Sugar is the old story – either mill beets, or buy it from the store directly. Apples, on the other hand, are a lot trickier. You have to plant saplings first, which take a whopping 28 days to grow. Those saplings are expensive – they cost 4000 gold. So especially when you’re still struggling to get everything working, this recipe takes an amount of effort that’s usually not worth it.

Cranberry Sauce

If you happen to have cranberries, definitely make sauce. Not candy.

If you happen to have cranberries, definitely make sauce. Not candy.

Difficulty of gettingHard Difficulty of making
Easy

Worth to you

  • +125 Energy
  • +56 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +2 Mining
    Duration: 3 minutes, 30 seconds

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Harvey, Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • No perfect gift

Ingredients

  • 1 Cranberry
  • 1 Sugar

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach 7 hearts friendship with Gus

Hey, what’s this? It’s the same recipe, only without the most troubling ingredient! What’s more, it replenishes the very same amount of health and energy but offers a significant mining buff alongside it. This recipe is the superior Stardew Valley cranberry cooking recipe. So get on with befriending Gus – this recipe alone is already worth it.

The dish is very simple to make. As mentioned above, cranberries only take 7 days to grow, and the seeds are simple to purchase. When you’re at the store, you can buy sugar right away, or mill it yourself from beets if you have a functioning mill. For the effort you have to put into this recipe, the return is huge. This is a dish worth preparing.

Crispy Bass

Who knows bass was so magnetic?

Who knows bass was so magnetic?

Difficulty of gettingMedium Difficulty of makingHard

Worth to you

  • +90 Energy
  • +40 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +64 Magnetism
    Duration: 7 minutes

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus and Leo
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Jodi

 

Ingredients

  • 1 Largemouth bass
  • 1 Wheat flour
  • 1 Oil

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach 3 hearts friendship with Kent

Eggplant Parmesan

Eat before fighting.

Eat before fighting.

Difficulty of gettingHard Difficulty of makingMedium

Worth to you

  • +175 Energy
  • +78 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +1 Mining
  • +3 Defense
    Duration: 4 minutes, 39 seconds

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Jodi

Ingredients

  • 1 Eggplant
  • 1 Tomato

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach 7 hearts friendship with Lewis

Who’d have thought that the perfect dish for playing the hero would be eggplant parmesan? If you ask me, I’d imagine it as some sort of potion, or maybe a large roast… something medieval. And yet, the eggplant parmesan is the right choice for cooking before combat in Stardew Valley. With its +3 defense and +1 mining buff, it’s the dish to eat before heading into any mine. It will take a while before you get the dish though since you need to reach 7 hearts friendship with Lewis. Better start stocking up on autumn’s bounties!

Fortunately, reaching a high friendship with Lewis is the trickiest part of this recipe. Just make sure you save some tomatoes from summer, add in a single eggplant and you’re all set! Enjoy your day of mining – but don’t forget to water the crops before you’re off.

Fried Eel

If you catch an eel, just buy oil and you're set!

If you catch an eel, just buy oil and you’re set!

Difficulty of gettingEasy Difficulty of makingMedium

Worth to you

  • +75 Energy
  • +33 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +1 Luck
    Duration: 7 minutes

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Jodi

Ingredients

  • 1 Eel
  • 1 Oil

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach 3 hearts friendship with George

I’m going to say it before you notice – fall is the season of luck. There are a bunch of dishes that give luck boosts, and fried eel is one of them. Luck is a pretty great modifier to boost, too. It can double crop yield, increase the chance of geodes appearing, and far more. So, it’s a stat worth boosting. Fried eel is a pretty simple way to do so. Reaching three hearts with George shouldn’t take too much time, after which he sends you this dish. 

So, once you have the recipe, how do you make the dish? This dish consists of two elements, but it really only consists of one. The other ingredient is oil, which you can easily buy. When you have an oil maker, you can even make it yourself. The main ingredient is eel, which is a little trickier to get if you don’t know where to look. Eels only appear in the ocean between 4 PM and 2 AM in rain. So on a rainy evening, head down to the beach to do some eel fishing. I’m sure the night fishing bundle will be pleased, too.  

Glazed Yams

For the amount of energy you get back, this dish really takes no effort.

For the amount of energy you get back, this dish really takes no effort.

Difficulty of gettingEasy Difficulty of makingEasy

Worth to you

  • +200 Energy
  • +90 Health
    No additional effects

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Harvey, Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Lewis and Pam

Ingredients

  • 1 Yam
  • 1 Sugar

How to get the recipe:

  • Queen of the Sauce, Fall 21, Year 1

Glazed yams are a pretty simple fall crowd-pleaser. Loved by two and liked by everyone except for the standard array of difficult eaters, they make a great gift. The health and energy boosts to yourself are not shabby either – however, if you ask me, they make better presents than breakfast. It’s a dish you’ll unlock pretty quickly. It appears on Queen of the Sauce on fall 21 in the first year. So once you have it, you can immediately make it!

That’s because glazed yams have only two ingredients – yams and sugar. Yams are easy. Just buy some seeds from the shop and wait 10 days for them to grow. Sugar is always for sale, or you can mill it yourself – provided you have a mill, of course. Throw them together, and Lewis and Pam will be the happiest people in the entire valley.

Lucky Lunch

Fall really is the season of luck, it seems.

Fall really is the season of luck, it seems.

Difficulty of gettingMedium Difficulty of making
Hard

Worth to you

  • +100 Energy
  • +45 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +3 Luck
    Duration: 11 minutes, 11 seconds

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • No perfect gift

Ingredients

  • 1 Sea cucumber
  • 1 Tortilla
  • 1 Blue jazz

How to get the recipe:

  • Queen of the Sauce, Spring 28, Year 2

I told you fall was the season of luck, didn’t I? The lucky lunch certainly illustrates that. With a whopping +3 luck bonus for over 10 minutes, this dish offers a very powerful buff that serves you well when you eat it. Of course, such buffs don’t come cheap. You need to wait until at least year 2 to even get the recipe for this dish. However, once you have it, you’re far from done.

This dish requires some preparation. You need to be preparing for it in spring already, since one of the ingredients, blue jazz, only grows in that season. Fortunately, the other two ingredients are easier. The tortilla is a dish you can make with corn, that grows in both summer and fall. The sea cucumber is tricky too. It’s a hard creature to catch, but at least it appears far more commonly than the eel. As long as you fish in the ocean between 6 AM and 7 PM, chances are you just might catch one.

Maple Bar

For the extended all-round buff!

For the extended all-round buff!

Difficulty of getting
Medium
Difficulty of makingMedium

Worth to you

  • +225 Energy
  • +101 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +1 Farming
  • +1 Fishing
  • +1 Mining
    Duration: 16 minutes, 47 seconds

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Sam

Ingredients

  • 1 Maple Syrup
  • 1 Sugar
  • 1 Wheat flour

How to get the recipe:

  • Queen of the Sauce, Summer 14, Year 2

An all-around buff is generally not the most useful in Stardew Valley. Although it’s handy, it’s never the most useful. Why bother taking a recipe that gives +1 fishing when you can eat a dish o’ the sea as well, which gives you +3? The maple bar suffers from being a bit too generic, although its health and energy boost is nothing to scoff at. There are plenty of worse cooking recipes in Stardew Valley.

For the effort you have to put into a maple bar, it’s a pretty good deal too. Sugar and wheat flour are easy to get, either from the store or by milling it yourself. Fall happens to be the perfect season to get loads of both since wheat and beets grow at this time. That leaves maple syrup, which comes with a bit of an instruction manual. To get the substance, you need to place a tapper on a maple tree. Maple trees are quite simple – simply place a maple tree, which is a very common drop from chopping down trees and foraging. At foraging level 3, you’ll unlock the tapper. It’s refining equipment that you can place on the tree. Every 9 days, you’ll get some new maple syrup. This works in every season, so it’s a perfect recipe when you’re short on supplies!

Plum Pudding

Almost everyone is a huge fan. Well, except the usual trio, of course.

Almost everyone is a huge fan. Well, except the usual trio, of course.

Difficulty of gettingEasy Difficulty of makingEasy

Worth to you

  • +175 Energy
  • +78 Health
    No additional effects

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Jas

Ingredients

  • 2 Wild plum
  • 1 Wheat flour
  • 1 Sugar

How to get the recipe:

  • Queen of the Sauce, Winter 7, Year 1

Although there are plenty of Stardew Valley cooking recipes where there’s plenty to be said, plum pudding isn’t one of those recipes. It’s straightforward to get, straightforward to make, and straightforward in its rewards. The health and energy you gain from it are decent, but without any stat boosts this recipe is never the perfect fit. 

To get the recipe, you just have to wait until the fateful day of winter 7, year 1, when the Queen of the Sauce comes on to give it to you. You’re going to have to wait a while to make the recipe, though. As the name makes pretty clear, the recipe relies on plums. Wild plums, specifically. This fruit is easy to obtain since it only requires foraging, but it only shows up during fall. Add in some wheat and sugar and presto – a simple but delicious pudding. 

Pumpkin Pie

A fine recipe, until you unlock the superior pumpkin dish.

A fine recipe, until you unlock the superior pumpkin dish.

Difficulty of gettingEasy Difficulty of makingMedium

Worth to you

  • +225 Energy
  • +101 Health
    No additional effects

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Marnie

Ingredients

  • 1 Pumpkin
  • 1 Wheat flour
  • 1 Milk
  • 1 Sugar

How to get the recipe:

  • Queen of the Sauce, Winter 21, Year 1

Fall is a funny season. Not only are there loads of dishes that for some reason provide luck boosts, but there are also quite a few recipes that are direct upgrades. Cranberry candy and cranberry sauce are an example. There’s very little reason to make cranberry candy since the sauce is easier to make and offers more rewards. It’s the same story for pumpkin pie.

Is it a bad recipe? No, absolutely not. It’s already worth making thanks to its huge health boost, and because it makes a perfect gift for someone, in this case, Marnie. However, it’s also a pretty simple recipe when you come down to it. You get the recipe by just winning the waiting game – on winter 21, the dish shows up in Queen of the Sauce for free. The ingredients aren’t that tricky either. Milk should be in steady supply if you have a barn going, pumpkins are easy to grow during fall, and wheat flour and sugar are easy to buy or mill. But here’s the problem – pumpkin pie just doesn’t compare to pumpkin soup.

Pumpkin Soup

It takes little effort and gives high rewards. If you ask me, it's one of the best recipes in the game.

It takes little effort and gives high rewards. If you ask me, it’s one of the best recipes in the game.

Difficulty of getting
Hard
Difficulty of makingEasy

Worth to you

  • +200 Energy
  • +90 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +2 Defense
  • +2 Luck
    Duration: 7 minutes, 41 seconds

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Sebastian

Ingredients

  • 1 Pumpkin
  • 1 Milk

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach 7 hearts friendship with Robin

One of the reasons you may be more inclined to make pumpkin pie is that the recipe is a lot simpler. Instead of waiting for the right day, you’ve got to build up a 7 hearts relationship with Robin, and that takes time. However, I assure you, building up that friendship is completely worth it! With a huge health boost, significant effects, and only a little effort, pumpkin soup may be one of the best recipes, if not the best recipe in the game. 

It’s straight up a simpler version of pumpkin pie. Just leave out the sugar and the wheat, and you’re done. That’s it! With just one pumpkin and one milk, you can replenish 200 health and 90 energy with a single click. More importantly perhaps – aside from the +2 defense bonus, this dish also gives a +2 luck bonus. So expect better farming results, a higher rate of geodes appearing while mining, and better odds of finding treasure while fishing… I can go rambling on for a while about why this dish is phenomenal, but I won’t do that to you. This dish is worth it. 

Roasted Hazelnuts

No farming required!

No farming required!

Difficulty of gettingMedium Difficulty of making
Very Easy

Worth to you

  • +175 Energy
  • +78 Health
    No additional effects

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Kent

Ingredients

  • 3 Hazelnuts

How to get the recipe:

  • Queen of the Sauce, Summer 28, Year 2

Trust me, it gives me immense joy to explain an easy Stardew Valley cooking recipe to you, for once. Ever since those crazy Ginger Island recipes from summer, I’ve been craving a simple dish – and the roasted hazelnuts offer me just that. The recipe doesn’t even require you to work the farm! You can get this great recipe by simply walking outside, touring the valley for a bit, and grabbing 3 hazelnuts. That’s it!

It’s even a pretty solid recipe for that little effort. 175 health and 78 energy is nothing shabby, to begin with. And that’s not to mention that you don’t need to buy seeds, slowly grow them, maybe even mill them. Nope! All you need to do is wait until Summer 28, Year 2 for the right Queen of the Sauce run to come on, and the day after you’re free to roast some delicious hazelnuts. Recipes hardly ever come this easy, but when they do, you should completely abuse that.

Salmon Dinner

It requires a spring crop, but dang, it sells for much!

It requires a spring crop, but dang, it sells for much!

Difficulty of gettingEasy Difficulty of makingMedium

Worth to you

  • +125 Energy
  • +56 Health
    No additional effects

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus and Leo
  • Hated by Emily
  • Perfect gift to Alex

Ingredients

  • 1 Salmon
  • 1 Amaranth
  • 1 Kale

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach 3 hearts friendship with Gus

This dish has an interesting little feature. It’s not in the health it regains you, or the buffs it provides you. It’s not particularly easy or difficult to get the recipe, although it’s quite tricky to whip together. No, the main attraction of this dish is the selling price. Although there are so many better ways to build a profitable presence in Stardew Valley than cooking and selling the dishes, the Salmon Dinner is a notable exception. It sells for a whopping 300 coins, which is quite a lot compared to the buff it provides.

So if you have kale still saved up from spring, consider growing and adding amaranth and some salmon. Salmon is pretty common in fall, since it’s catchable under any weather condition during most of the day, as long as you fish in the river. It will make you a quick buck, and that’s always nice. 

Spicy Eel

A luck buff. What else is new!

A luck buff. What else is new!

Difficulty of getting
Hard
Difficulty of makingMedium

Worth to you

  • +115 Energy
  • +51 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +1 Luck
  • +1 Speed
    Duration: 7 minutes

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Emily, Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by Evelyn
  • Perfect gift to Abigail

Ingredients

  • 1 Eel
  • 1 Hot pepper

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach 7 hearts friendship with George

Season of luck. Need I say more? Spicy eel is another rewarding recipe since it requires a pretty small effort for major results. All you need is one hot pepper saved from summer and an eel. Eels are a tricky catch, annoyingly. They only pop up during the evening in the ocean, during spring and fall, and in rain. So if you have a rainy fall evening, consider filling it with eel fishing. The more you have saved up, the better!

Getting the recipe takes a little effort too. You need to reach 7 hearts friendship with George, which isn’t difficult but takes time. There you go – another great recipe to fall back on, as it replenishes quite some health and energy and provides you with great stat boosts to face the day. Speed and luck might just be my favorite combination since now you can harvest all those luck bonuses even faster!

Stir Fry

The first recipe you'll likely get - and a fun one to whip together!

The first recipe you’ll likely get – and a fun one to whip together!

Difficulty of getting
Very Easy
Difficulty of makingMedium

Worth to you

  • +200 Energy
  • +90 Health
    No additional effects

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Leah

Ingredients

  • 1 Cave carrot
  • 1 Common mushroom
  • 1 Kale
  • 1 Oil

How to get the recipe:

  • Queen of the Sauce, Spring 7, Year 1

There is a strong possibility that stir fry became the very first dish you unlocked. Popping up during Queen of the Sauce on the seventh day of the first spring, you’ll have to go out of your way to make it not the first recipe you have. It will take some time before you can make it, and the buffs aren’t great, but this dish is really about the journey.

It consists of four elements. Save up kale from spring, and if you happen to come across it, save a cave carrot. Those are pretty common and can be found in caves during every season. After that, add a common mushroom. You can get them outside of fall, like in the Secret Woods or the Mushroom Cave, but during fall you can just pick them up by walking past them. Saves you some trouble! Buy some oil (or make it yourself) and presto, a stir fry! That’s another step towards that elusive Gourmet Chef achievement!

Stuffing

Another great dish for combat. And pretty simple to make!

Another great dish for combat. And pretty simple to make!

Difficulty of getting
Hard
Difficulty of makingEasy

Worth to you

  • +170 Energy
  • +76 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +2 Defense
    Duration: 5 minutes, 35 seconds

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Evelyn

Ingredients

  • 1 Breade
  • 1 Cranberry
  • 1 Hazelnut

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach 7 hearts friendship with Pam

This dish drives me mad. Who eats only stuffing? It’s for stuffing, right? And besides, there is the bread which the stuffing could go into. However, the bread goes into the stuffing?! Am I missing something? No matter. This is a fine dish that only requires cranberries. Hazelnuts are everywhere in the fall, and bread is very easy to make. All you need is some wheat and a mill – or Pierre. Both will do. 

It’s a little more effort to get this dish. You need to reach 7 hearts of friendship with Pam, which is not impossible, but definitely time-consuming. It is quite a lot of effort for a dish that doesn’t offer that much in return. While the health and energy buffs are pretty good, they’re not that special, particularly not in fall. The defense buff is nice too, but again, you have better options, like the eggplant parmesan.

Super Meal

It's really not that great. It is a nice energizer, though.

It’s really not that great. It is a nice energizer, though.

Difficulty of getting
Hard
Difficulty of makingMedium

Worth to you

  • +160 Energy
  • +76 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +40 Max Energy
  • +1 Speed
    Duration: 3 minutes, 30 seconds

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Harvey

Ingredients

  • 1 Bok choy
  • 1 Cranberry
  • 1 Artichoke

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach 7 hearts friendship with Kent

Talk about an oversell! It’s an adequate meal more than anything. It takes quite some effort to get, and its buffs really pale in comparison to other cooking recipes that fall in Stardew Valley has to offer. I’m looking at you, pumpkin soup. The “super meal” serves as a nice energizer, but other than that, it has little use.

It’s tricky to get, too. You need to reach 7 hearts with Kent. He’s likely to be among the last inhabitants you’ll have a high friendship with, simply because he isn’t there in year 1. The ingredients aren’t particularly tough, but there are many of them. Cranberries and bok choy are very easy and cheap, but artichoke makes the recipe a lot harder since it’s only available starting year 2. I guess all that may cause you to take a while before you can make an adequate meal.

Survival Burger

If you plan on foraging, take one of these in advance.

If you plan on foraging, take one of these in advance.

Difficulty of getting
Very Easy
Difficulty of makingMedium

Worth to you

  • +125 Energy
  • +56 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +3 Foraging
    Duration: 5 minutes, 35 seconds

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leah, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Emily

Ingredients

  • 1 Bread
  • 1 Cave carrot
  • 1 Eggplant

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach Foraging level 2

Earlier, I said that the stir fry is likely the first dish you unlock. Although that’s still the case, it likely implies that there’s a chance it’s not the first dish. The other main contestant is the survival burger, a great utility recipe you unlock only at foraging level 2. That won’t take you long at all, and this is another highly rewarding recipe to throw together.

The catch is that this recipe hinges on another recipe – bread. Once you can make bread, foraging will hold no more secrets for you. Simply grow an eggplant, scavenge the mines for a cave carrot, and you’re golden. This dish offers an incredible foraging buff, so if you plan on doing a little hunt, take some with you in advance. I guarantee you a very high return on investment if you embrace the ways of the survival burger.

Tom Kha Soup

Great for those long days on the farm.

Great for those long days on the farm.

Difficulty of getting
Hard
Difficulty of making
Hard

Worth to you

  • +175 Energy
  • +78 Health
    Temporary Effects
  • +2 Farming
  • +30 Max Energy
    Duration: 7 minutes

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Elliott and Penny

Ingredients

  • 1 Coconut
  • 1 Shrimp
  • 1 Common mushroom

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach 7 hearts friendship with Sandy

Another citizen who’s tricky to befriend! Sandy’s always tough because you can’t just walk over. She’s always a bus trip away, and you may not always be in the mood to visit her in Calico Desert. Of course, you need to get there in the first place, and that will take some time too. Still, she holds the secret to a pretty great dish – tom kha soup. This farming buffing recipe is great in a season that has as many great crops as fall. When your crop yield gets better from the buff, you can count on cashing in with your next harvest.

So, after befriending Sandy, how do you make it? When you’re in the desert, be sure to pick up a few coconuts. They’re often around, and this is one of the simplest ways to get them. Common mushrooms, the second ingredient, are exactly that – common. Especially in the fall. A good trip around the valley should certainly yield you a few of them. Finally, shrimp may be the trickiest ingredient. You need to put a crab pot in a body of salt water, where you have a 10% chance of catching one. Unless you’re a mariner, then it’s a 14% chance. But – the more you try, the likelier it is you’ll get one!

Vegetable Medley

Hope you have some leftover tomatoes!

Hope you have some leftover tomatoes!

Difficulty of getting
Hard
Difficulty of makingEasy

Worth to you

  • +165 Energy
  • +74 Health
    No additional effects

Worth to others

  • Universally liked
  • Disliked by Krobus, Leo, and Willy
  • Hated by noone
  • Perfect gift to Jodi, Leah, and Lewis

Ingredients

  • 1 Tomato
  • 1 Beet

How to get the recipe:

  • Reach 7 hearts friendship with Caroline

Finishing fall with a great crowd-pleaser! And in contrast to the pink cake, this crowd-pleaser is a lot healthier too. Although it doesn’t have that much to offer itself, the vegetable medley is great for giving! With Jodi, Leah, and Lewis going completely wild for it, it just so shows that the way to form a good friendship in Stardew Valley is through cooking.

It’s not a particularly challenging recipe either. Although the term “medley “might make it seem like it features tons of veggies, it only features two: tomato and beet. Hopefully, you’ve got some tomatoes saved from summer, which will help you when you prepare this dish. Beets are easy to get and grow quickly. The recipe itself is a little more work since you have to reach 7 hearts with Caroline. However, that’s an investment well worth it, if you ask me. 

Stardew Valley Cooking: Dishes You Can Also Make in Fall

Would you look at that, it’s the great harvest season in Stardew Valley, and yet, not all cooking recipes are here! How’s that possible? Although fall is the zenith of the farming season, where a year’s work really comes together, some dishes just fit a little better in other seasons. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t make them in the fall! Cooking in Stardew Valley is all about making what you like when you like it. So please, challenge this guide, and try to make some other recipes in the fall that aren’t in this particular guide! Here’s a list of dishes that you can also make during fall, the season of nature’s twilight!

Algae Soup | Baked Fish | Banana Pudding | Bread | Carp Surprise | Chocolate Cake | Chowder | Cookie | Crab Cakes | Fried Egg | Ginger Ale | Ice Cream | Lobster Bisque | Miner’s Treat | Omelet | Pale Broth | Pancakes | Rice Pudding | Sashimi | Strange Bun | Tortilla

I hope you enjoyed this first part of the complete Stardew Valley Cooking Guide. I will see you again soon in the next installment when we tackle the season of nature’s slumber– Winter!

Leave a Reply