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Grow a Garden Recipes — Every Cooking Combo That Works
Updated Jul 22, 2026
Quick answer
Cooking landed in Grow a Garden with the Cooking Event — bring crops to Chris P. the pig chef, drop them in the pot, and plate up dishes for rewards. Here's how it actually works, plus reliable combos.
The golden rules
- Random ingredients = Soup
The pot defaults to Soup if your combo doesn't match a recipe . fine for clearing junk crops, bad for rewards.
- Cook the craving
Chris P. calls out a craving on a timer. Serving the craved dish upgrades its tier (a Divine dish becomes Prismatic!) and pays far better.
- Check the Recipe Book
The book next to Chris P. lists exact combos in-game if you forget.
- Higher-tier ingredients = higher-tier dish
The rarity of what goes in decides the rarity of what comes out.
Reliable combos
| Dish | Combo that works |
|---|---|
| 🥗 Salad | 3x Tomato + 1x Carrot |
| 🥪 Sandwich | 3x Tomato + 1x Corn |
| 🥧 Pie | 1x Pumpkin + 1x Pineapple |
| 🧇 Waffle | 1x Pumpkin + 1x Watermelon + 1x Strawberry + 1x Coconut |
| 🌭 Hot Dog | 2x Corn + 1x Pepper + filler crop |
| 🍦 Ice Cream | 3x Corn + 1x Blueberry + 1x Strawberry |
| 🍩 Donut | 2x Corn + 1x Strawberry + 1x Apple + 1x Tomato |
| 🍕 Pizza | 1x Tomato + 1x Pepper + 1x Corn + 1x Strawberry |
| 🍣 Sushi | 4x Bamboo + 2x Corn |
| 🎂 Cake | 2x Corn + 2x Strawberry + 2x Blueberry |
| 🍔 Burger | 1x Pepper + 1x Corn + 1x Tomato + 1x Bell Pepper |
| 🥤 Smoothie | 1x Orange Tulip + 1x Daffodil + 1x Strawberry |
| 🍎 Candy Apple | 2x Sugar Apple + 1x Apple |
| 🍵 Sweet Tea | 1x Rose + 2x Peach + 1x Corn |
| 🥣 Porridge | 3x Sugar Apple + 2x Corn |
Several dishes share ingredients — the pot picks based on ratios, and cravings can flip a batch (a Cake combo becomes Pie/Waffle/Ice Cream when he's craving those). When in doubt, match the Recipe Book exactly.
What to farm for cooking
Corn, Tomato and Strawberry appear in half the recipes — keep multi-harvest rows of all three. For high-tier plates, Sugar Apple combos (Candy Apple, Porridge) are the money dishes.