Cooking in DragonSword: Awakening is how you turn raw ingredients gathered across the Continent of Orbis into healing, buffs, and even character resurrection. There are 73 standard recipes to unlock, plus one extra toxic result called the Mysterious Dish. Each dish belongs to one of three preparation methods, and you unlock a recipe the first time you successfully make it.
Quick answer: Combine the exact ingredients for each dish at a cooking station to permanently add it to your cookbook. Recipes split into Grilling (29), Boiling (26), and Slice (18). To cook a 5-star version, use three 4-star ingredients, or triple a single-ingredient recipe.
How recipe unlocking and star ratings work
You do not start with a full cookbook. You have to prepare a dish once to register its recipe, so early cooking is partly experimentation and partly matching the ingredient combinations below. Once a dish is registered, it stays in your cookbook.
Ingredient quality changes the strength of the result. Cooking with higher-rated ingredients produces a stronger dish. To reach a 5-star dish, you need three 4-star ingredients. For single-ingredient recipes such as Grilled Meat, you get the same effect by tripling the base ingredient instead of using one.
Each of the three methods leans toward a different purpose. Grilling produces healing dishes, Boiling produces teas and stews that include the resurrection effect, and Slice produces uncooked dishes built mostly from fish, seafood, grains, and vegetables.
All Grilling recipes
There are 29 Grilling dishes, and all of them restore health, either as an immediate boost or as regeneration over time. Many use a single ingredient, so they are the easiest to stock in bulk.
| Dish | Recipe |
|---|---|
| Grilled Meat | 1x Meat |
| Grillet Fish | 1x Fish / Fish + 2x Wheat |
| Grilled Seafood | 1x Seafood |
| Roasted Vegetables | 1x Vegetables |
| Grilled Mushrooms | 1x Mushroom |
| Fried Rice | 2x Vegetables + Rice |
| Fried Egg | 1x Egg |
| Double Steak | Meat + Fish |
| Assorted Grilled Meats | Meat + 2x Vegetables |
| Meat Bowl | Meat + Wheat + Rice |
| Assorted Grilled Fish | 3x Fish |
| Seafood Platter | Fish + Seafood |
| Grilled Fish Bowl | Fish + Vegetable + Rice |
| Seafood Pasta | Seafood + Wheat |
| Stir-fried Mushrooms and Vegetables | 2x Vegetables + Mushroom |
| Steak Set Meal | Meat + Sefood + Vegetable |
| Hamburger Steak | Meat + Vegetable + Egg |
| Fish Steak | Fish + Vegetable + Mushroom |
| Seafood Teppanyaki | Seafood + Vegetable + Mushroom |
| Herb Grill | 1x Herb |
| Pan-fried Dumplings | 1x Wheat |
| Tomato Spaghetti | Wheat + Leaflet Tomato + Meat |
| Fish and Chips | Dwarf Potato + Fish |
| Classic Pizza | Mushroom + Wheat |
| Potato Pìzza | Dwarf Potato + Wheat |
| Nougat | 1x Peanuts |
| Omelet | Vegetable + Mushroom + Egg |
| Grilled Clams | 1x Shellfish |
| Egg Roll | 2x Mushrooms + Egg |
All Boiling recipes
The pot handles 26 Boiling dishes, including a range of teas that provide the resurrection effect. Grain Tea is the earliest of these to make, so it is worth stocking as soon as you have grains.
| Dish | Recipe |
|---|---|
| Meat Stew | 1x Meat |
| Fish Porridge | Fish + Grains |
| Seafood Stew | 1x Seafood |
| Vegetable Soup | 1x Vegetable |
| Mushroom Tea | Herb + 2x Mushrooms |
| Grain Tea | 1x Grains |
| Honey Tea | Honey + Herbs |
| Hard-boiled Egg | 1x Egg |
| Orbis-style Double Stew | 2x Meat + Fish |
| Orbis-style Stew | Meat + Seafood |
| Consommé | Meat + Vegetable |
| Orbis-style Special Stew | Meat + Fish + Seafood |
| Seafood Hodgepodge | Fish + Seafood |
| Fish Soup | 1x Fish |
| Shipboard Tea | Fish (Any amount) + Herbs |
| Seafood Porridge | Wheat + 2x Seafood |
| Herbal Tea | 1x Herb |
| Mushroom Soup | 1x Mushroom |
| Mushroom Porridge | Vegetable + Mushroom + Grains |
| Nutricious Soup | Meat + Vegetable + Herb |
| Seafood Paella | Meat + Fish + Grains |
| Restorative Porridge | Vegetable + Herb + Grains |
| Tomato Stew | Leaflet Tomato + Vegetable |
| Risotto | 2x Meat + Grains |
| Radish Soup | Radish + Meat (Any amount) |
| Clam Soup | 1x Shellfish |
All Slice recipes
Slice covers 18 uncooked dishes. Most of them pair fish or seafood with grains or vegetables, so gather those material types before you sit down at a station.
| Dish | Recipe |
|---|---|
| Beef Tartare | 1x Meat |
| Sashimi | 1x Fish |
| Scallop sashimi | 1x Seafood |
| Salad | 1x Vegetable |
| Nutritious Salad | 1x Herb |
| Morning Meal | 1x Grain |
| Egg Renew | 1 Egg |
| Assorted Sashimi | Meat + Fish |
| Carpaccio | Meat + Seafood + Vegetable |
| Beef Tartare Bibimbap | Meat + Herb + Grain |
| Seafood Sauce | 2x Fish + Seafood |
| Assorted Sushi | Fish + Vegetable + Grain |
| Seafood Ceviche | Seafood + Grain |
| Spring Rolls | 2x Vegetables + Rice |
| Assorted Rice Bowls | Meat + Fish + Rice |
| Assorted Salad | Vegetable + Herb + Mushroom |
| Mushroom Carving | Vegetable + 2x Mushrooms |
| Cereal | 1x Natural Foods (like Walnuts) |
Confirming a recipe registered
When a combination matches a real recipe, the dish is created and added to your cookbook, so you can remake it later without guessing the ingredients again. If a combination does not match any recipe, you produce the Mysterious Dish instead, which is toxic and signals that the ingredient mix is wrong.
Note: For maximum-strength dishes, keep three 4-star ingredients on hand for multi-ingredient recipes and triple a single 4-star ingredient for one-ingredient dishes. Cooking with lower-rated ingredients still registers the recipe, just at a weaker effect.
Work through the three tables above one method at a time and you can clear the full set of 73 recipes, holding onto the Grilling dishes for healing and the Boiling teas for those clutch resurrection moments before a tough fight.
