Disney Dreamlight Valley

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

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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

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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

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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.