How To Get Ingredients In Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

Ingredients include fruits, vegetables, fish, and other miscellaneous items.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons brought a literal feast for its players when it introduced cooking in its November update. Players can now grow and find ingredients and cook up a storm in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Let us find out below how players can find ingredients and unlock cooking in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

How To Get Ingredients In Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

Unlock Cooking In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Before they start whipping up sandwiches and pizzas, players will need to unlock cooking in the game. Here’s how cooking is unlocked in the game.

  • To unlock cooking in the game, visit the Nook Stop in Residential Services.
  • Next, players will need to ‘Redeem Nook Miles’ and then buy ‘Be a Chef! DIY Recipes +’. It costs 2,000 Nook Miles.

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  • Nook Phone’s DIY Recipe app will now include a selection of cooking recipes.
  • Players will only be able to unlock the cooking ability if they’ve downloaded the Ver.2.0 patch for New Horizons.

Find Ingredients In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

There are a number of ingredients available for players to find in the game. These include fruits, vegetables, fish, and other miscellaneous ingredients. Let’s take a look below at how players can find each of these ingredients in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Vegetables

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Vegetables Where To Find Them 
Carrot Players can grow carrots from starter seeds bought from Lief or by visiting a Mystery Island from Kapp’n’s Boats Tours.
Round, Flat, And Skinny Mushroom These three varieties of mushrooms can be found near trees at random in the fall season.
Elegant Mushroom Just like the above three varieties, Elegant mushrooms can also be found near trees in the fall. It is a bit rarer than the three varieties above.
Rare Mushroom While the process of finding these mushrooms is the same, the probability of finding them increases if players have a 5-star Town rating.
Potatoes  

Players can grow potatoes from starter plants bought from Lief or by visiting a Mystery Island from Kapp’n’s Boats Tours.

Turnip Players can buy turnips from Daisy Mae every Sunday.

Fruits

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Fruit Where To Find Them 
Apple Players can get this as a starting fruit tree. Moreover, players can also find a fruit tree on a Mystery Island tour or trade with a friend.
Cherry Players can get this as a starting fruit tree. Moreover, players can also find a fruit tree on a Mystery Island tour or trade with a friend.
Pear Players can get this as a starting fruit tree. Moreover, players can also find a fruit tree on a Mystery Island tour or trade with a friend.
Peach Players can get this as a starting fruit tree. Moreover, players can also find a fruit tree on a Mystery Island tour or trade with a friend.
Orange Players can get this as a starting fruit tree. Moreover, players can also find a fruit tree on a Mystery Island tour or trade with a friend.
Coconut Coconut fruit can be found on a Mystery Island Tour by using a Nook Miles Ticket and flying with Dodo Airlines. Players can also take a boat tour with Kapp’n.
Pumpkin Players can grow Pumpkin by purchasing the starters from Nook’s Cranny or Leif.
Tomato Players can grow Tomato by purchasing the starters from Leif or on a Mystery Island tour.

Fish

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Fish Location Time Season/Months
Anchovy Sea 4am-9pm Northern Hemisphere: All Months

Southern Hemisphere: All Months

Barred Knifejaw Sea All Day Northern Hemisphere: March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November

Southern Hemisphere:September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May

Blue Marlin Pier lLl Day Northern Hemisphere: November, December, January, February, March, April & July, August, September

Southern Hemisphere: January, February, March & May, June, July, August, September, October

Dab Sea All Day Northern Hemisphere: October, November, December, January, February, March, April

Southern Hemisphere: August, September, October

Horse Mackerel Sea All Day Northern Hemisphere: All Months

Southern Hemisphere: All Months

Manila Clam Beach All Day Northern Hemisphere: All Months

Southern Hemisphere: All Months

Olive Flounder Sea All Day Northern Hemisphere: All Months

Southern Hemisphere: All Months

Red Snapper Sea All Day Northern Hemisphere: All Months

Southern Hemisphere: All Months

Salmon River (Mouth) All Day Northern Hemisphere: September

Southern Hemisphere: March

Scallop Sea (Diving) All Day Northern Hemisphere: All Year

Southern Hemisphere: All Year

Sea Bass Sea All Day Northern Hemisphere: All Months

Southern Hemisphere: All Months

Seaweed Sea (Diving) All Day Northern Hemisphere: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, October, November, December

Southern Hemisphere: January, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Squid Sea All Day Northern Hemisphere: December, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August

Southern Hemisphere: June, July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February

Sweet Shrimp Sea (Diving) 4pm – 9am Northern Hemisphere: September, October, November, December, January, February

Southern Hemisphere: March, April, May, June, July, August

Tiger Prawn Sea (Diving) 4pm – 9am Northern Hemisphere: June, July, August, September

Southern Hemisphere: December, January, February, March

Misc Ingredients In Animal Crossing New Horizons

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Ingredient Where To Find It
Bamboo Travel to Mystery Island through Dodo Airlines or get it as a gift from Daisy Mae for buying Turnips.
Weeds Weeds grow naturally around the island.
Wheat Players can grow wheat by purchasing starter seeds from Leif. They can also find it on a mystery island through the Kapp’n’s Boat Tours in mystery island.
Sugarcane  

Players can grow sugarcane by purchasing starter seeds from Leif. They can also find it on a mystery island through the Kapp’n’s Boat Tours in mystery island.

Flour Flour can be made y combining five wheat.
Whole Wheat Flour Same as above.
Sugar Sugar is crafted from sugarcane. You’ll need five sugarcanes to create sugar.
Brown Sugar Same as above.

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