Disney Dreamlight Valley recipe list of best 3, 4 & 5-star meals to make money

Disney Dreamlight Valley recipe list of best 3, 4 & 5-star meals to make money
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18th Mar 2024 17:17

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Whether you're looking to make Star Coins quickly in Disney Dreamlight Valley or polish off a Dreamlight Duty, knowing which recipes are the cream of the crop to cook up is essential.

So if you're torn over making dishes like Cheesecake or Chocolate Chip Cookies (completely understandable, both are delicious), I've included an explainer of which meals to focus on in the game to save time and make a profit - and how to get one, particularly tricky ingredient.

What are the best recipes to make money?

The recipes in the table below are the most profitable to make and sell in the base game of Disney Dreamlight Valley:

Dish

Sell Price

Star Rating

Ingredients

Ghostly Fish Steak

3,548

5-stars

  • Here and There Fish
  • Lemon
  • Asparagus
  • Bell Pepper
  • Oregano

Lioness Feast

3,108

4-stars

  • Mushroom
  • Tomato
  • Oregano
  • Here and There Fish

Pan-Fried Angler Fish

2,550

4-stars

  • Anglerfish
  • Tomato
  • Zucchini
  • Potato

Smoked Peanuts and Anglerfish

2,210

2-stars

  • Anglerfish
  • Peanut

Poached Basil-Butter Sturgeon

2,246

(2,056 after the cost of Butter)

4-stars

  • White Sturgeon
  • Basil
  • Lemon
  • Butter

Lobster Roll

1,900

(1,710 after Butter cost)

5-stars

  • Lobster
  • Wheat
  • Lemon
  • Butter
  • Garlic

Walleye en Papillote

1,700

4-stars

  • Walleye
  • Basil
  • Oregano
  • Any Vegetable

Lancetfish Paella

1,653

5-stars

  • Lancetfish
  • Shrimp
  • Any Seafood
  • Tomato
  • Rice

Pumpkin Soup

1,498

(Cost of Milk reduces profit to 1,268)

4-stars

  • Any Vegetable
  • Milk
  • Ginger
  • Pumpkin

You'll need a healthy amount of Star Coins in your purse to keep advancing through Disney Dreamlight Valley and beyond, so selling your cooked dishes can give you a good stack pretty quickly (particularly if you're someone who prides yourself on having an impressive collection of ingredients stored away).

recipe for pumpkin soup in disney dreamlight valley, one of the best recipes
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While the meals above are definitely the best for raking in the dough quicker than Scrooge McDuck could ever dream of, these dishes usually require some harder-to-get ingredients, like the Here and There fish.

How to get the Here & There fish

Both the Ghostly Fish Steak and the Lioness Feast require the Here and There fish, which can only be obtained by reaching level 10 friendship with Nala and completing her associated questline, 'Here and There and Back Again'.

  • As always, when fishing, make sure you have a fishing-based companion with you to increase the odds of a double reward
  • The Here and There fish can only be caught between 6 - 10 AM and 6 - 10 PM

Screenshot of the Here and There fish in Disney Dreamlight Valley
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Once the questline is completed, the fish can then spawn in any biome, in and outside of ripples. To increase your odds, it's best to fish outside of ripples to limit the chances of catching other fish varieties during this time and maximise your farming.

Easiest 3-star recipes to make in Disney Dreamlight Valley

For the easiest 3-star dishes to make quickly, here are all the ones you'll want to be cooking up in the valley:

Dish

Ingredients

Requirements

Sell Price

Cheesy Crispy Baked Cod

  • Cod
  • Wheat
  • Cheese

Cod can be caught at Dazzle Beach.

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy.

Wheat can be bought in the Peaceful Meadow.

303

Fish Pie

  • Any Fish
  • Wheat
  • Butter

Unlock Chez Remy and Goofy's Stall at the Peaceful Meadow.

269

Fish Steak

  • Any Fish
  • Tomato
  • Basil

Tomato can be bought from Goofy's Stall at Dazzle Beach.

Basil grows in the Peaceful Meadow.

66

Grilled Veggie Platter

3x Vegetables

Requires three lots of any vegetable, meaning you can create the dish without unlocking other biomes.

33

Hearty Salad

  • 2x Vegetables
  • Lettuce

Unlock Goofy's Stall in the Peaceful Meadow for Lettuce.

33

Omelet

  • Egg
  • Cheese
  • Milk

Unlock Chez Remy.

882

Pan-Seared Bass & Vegetables

  • Bass
  • 2x Vegetables

Bass can be fished in the Peaceful Meadow, Forest of Valor, Sunlit Plateau and Frosted Heights.

57

Pizza

  • Tomato
  • Cheese
  • Wheat

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products, Peaceful Meadow for Wheat and Dazzle Beach for Tomatoes.

284

Omelet in Disney Dreamlight Valley, one of the easiest 3-star recipes
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Many early-game quests will require you to cook 3-star dishes for rewards and XP. One example is the 'A Feast Worthy of a Demigod' quest in which you'll need to bring three 3-star dishes to Maui to unlock him as a valley resident.

Easiest 4-star meals to cook

If you're chasing the Dreamlight cooking challenge, you'll need to make at least fifteen 4-star meals in the game - and those in the list below can really help save you some time:

Dish

Ingredients

Requirements

Sell Price

Basil Omelet

  • Basil
  • Egg
  • Cheese
  • Milk

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products. Collect Basil from Peaceful Meadow.

982

Buñuelos

  • Wheat
  • Cheese
  • Milk
  • Egg

Unlock Goofy's Stall in Peaceful Meadow for Wheat Seeds. Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products.

948

Carrot Cake

  • Carrot
  • Wheat
  • Egg
  • Sugarcane

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products. Unlock Goofy's Stall at Dazzle Beach for Sugarcane.

427

Cheesecake

  • Cheese
  • Wheat
  • Sugarcane
  • Any Fruit

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products. Unlock Goofy's Stall at Dazzle Beach for Sugarcane.

332

Jam Waffles

  • Any Fruit
  • Wheat
  • Egg
  • Milk

Unlock Goofy's Stall in Peaceful Meadow for Wheat Seeds. Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products.

691

Souffle

  • Cheese
  • Egg
  • Milk
  • Butter

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products.

1,230

Margherita Pizza

  • Any Spice
  •   Tomato
  •   Cheese
  •   Wheat

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products. Unlock Goofy's Stall at Dazzle Beach for Tomato.

328

Veggie Casserole

  • 2x Vegetable
  • Any spice
  • Cheese

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products.

316

Best 5-star recipes to make in DDV

If you're truly keen to show off your culinary pizzazz, though, there are some pretty nice-looking 5-star meals I'd also recommend making that have had my stomach rumbling all afternoon:

Dish

Ingredients

Requirements

Sell Price

Aurora's Cake

  • Wheat
  • Sugarcane
  • Egg
  • Any Fruit
  • Milk

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products. Unlock Goofy's Stall at Dazzle Beach for Sugarcane.

786

Birthday Cake

  • Cocoa Bean
  • Wheat
  • Sugarcane
  • Egg
  • Butter

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products. Unlock Goofy's Stall at Dazzle Beach for Sugarcane and his stall at Peaceful Meadow for Wheat. Access Forest of Valor for Cocoa Beans.

749

Bouillabaisse

  • 2x Seafood
  • Shrimp
  • Tomato
  • Any vegetable

Access to Dazzle Beach for Seafood and Tomato.

529

Greek Pizza

  • Any Spice
  • Tomato
  • Onion
  • Cheese
  • Wheat

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products. Unlock Goofy's Stall at Dazzle Beach for Tomato. Access Forest of Valor for Onions.

630

Large Seafood Platter

  • 4x Seafood
  • Lemon

Access to Dazzle Beach for Seafood and either the Glade of Trust or Forest or Valor for Lemons.

56

Lobster Roll

  • Lobster
  • Wheat
  • Lemon
  • Butter
  • Garlic

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products.

Unlock Goofy's Stall at Peaceful Meadow for Wheat. Access Forest of Valor for Garlic and Lemon.

Lobsters can be fished from the Glade of Trust.

1,900

Pastry Cream and Fruits

  • 3x Fruit
  • Milk
  • Sugarcane

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products. Unlock Goofy's Stall at Dazzle Beach for Sugarcane.

497

Ranch Salad

  • Lettuce
  • Bell Pepper
  • Corn
  • Tomato
  • Onion

Unlock Goofy's Stall at Dazzle Beach for Tomato and Corn and his stall at Peaceful Meadow for Lettuce. Access Forest of Valor for Onion and Bell Peppers.

396

Vegetarian Pizza

  • 2x Vegetable
  • Tomato
  • Cheese
  • Wheat

Unlock Chez Remy for dairy products. Unlock Goofy's Stall at Dazzle Beach for Tomato. Peaceful Meadow stall for Wheat.

350

Image of a Seafood platter in Disney Dreamlight Valley
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Cooking in Disney Dreamlight Valley explained

Cooking in Disney Dreamlight Valley is relatively straightforward, as all you need is a cooking station, ingredients to experiment with, and a lump of Coal - which is a common enough resource that can be gathered from mining rocks and ores.

Once you unlock the Ratatouille realm and bring Remy to the valley, you'll then also gain access to his restaurant, Chez Remy.

Here, you can buy dairy ingredients and cater to the valley's inhabitants by making meals for them.

Luckily, to cook, you won't need to bring all of your ingredients with you. This means that they can be stored in chests throughout your world and can still be accessed at a cooking station, regardless of whether you're in Chez Remy or not.

How many recipes are there?

There are a total of 190 recipes in the base game of Disney Dreamlight Valley, categorised into different dish types. As of this page's most recent update, there are:

  • 41 appetizers
  • 85 entrées
  • 64 desserts

If you're someone who has the A Rift in Time expansion pass, though, there are even more recipes to make! In the DLC alone, there are 23 appetizers, 57 entrées, and 44 desserts for a total of 124!

Some of the meals and recipes that can be made in Disney Dreamlight Valley's A Rift in Time expansion
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Many dishes in the game require you to advance certain friendship quests to unlock, whereas most will simply require you to experiment with ingredients.

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Now you're set to cash in those Dreamlight cooking rewards and sell your dishes to Goofy for a high price, check out our homepage for Disney Dreamlight Valley, where you can find all the latest codes, whether you can sell furniture, and how to play Scramblecoin.

Kiera Mills
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Kiera is a former GGRecon Guides Writer.
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