Pokémon Pokopia: Every Bubbly Basin Recipe and How to Cook Them

The underwater Bubbly Basin region in Pokémon Pokopia comes with its own kitchen, its own ingredients, and 10 dishes you can’t cook anywhere else in the game. Food matters here because it powers up your abilities, so getting the recipes going early pays off. Every dish leans on ingredients that only grow beneath the waves, which means you need the Bubbly Basin expansion installed to make any of them.

Quick answer: There are 10 Bubbly Basin recipes. Most of them run through the Blender, which you craft with two Pokémetal after reaching the Smoothie Making quest. The two region-exclusive ingredients you’ll rely on are Watermelon slices and Sea grapes.

Every Bubbly Basin recipe and its ingredients

Six of these dishes are smoothies, all built on a base of two Watermelon slices. The remaining four cover a salad, a soup, a bread, and a hamburger steak. Here’s what goes into each one.

Recipe	Ingredients
Popping salad	Leaf, Leaf, Sea grapes
Popping soup	Fresh water, Fresh water, Sea grapes
Watermelon bread	Wheat, Wheat, Watermelon slice
Explosive hamburger steak	Bean, Bean, Sea grapes, Chili sauce
Watermelon smoothie	Watermelon slice, Watermelon slice
Red-hot smoothie	Watermelon slice, Watermelon slice, Fresh carrot
Sea grape smoothie	Watermelon slice, Watermelon slice, Sea grape
Refreshing soda smoothie	Watermelon slice, Watermelon slice, Aspear berry, Soda pop
Leppa smoothie	Watermelon slice, Watermelon slice, Leppa berry
Coffee parfait smoothie	Watermelon slice, Watermelon slice, Moomoo milk coffee, Simple bread

How to get Watermelon slices

Watermelon slices are the backbone of every smoothie, and getting them involves a small chain of Pokémon working together. Nothing here is optional, so work through it in order.

Unlock Corphish and talk to it about growing watermelon. This is what makes watermelon crops available to plant in the first place.

Get Mudkip by building either the Basin Tall Grass or the Fluffy Relaxation habitat. Have Mudkip blow bubbles over the watermelon crops to help them along.

Growing watermelon in bubbly basin in pokopia — Watermelon crops growing in Bubbly Basin.

Lead Corphish over to the crops Mudkip tended. This turns them into full-grown watermelons ready to harvest.

Build the Seaweed and Netting habitat to bring in Carvanha, a chopping specialist. Carry your fully grown watermelons to Carvanha and it will chop them into the Watermelon slices you cook with.

Asking Carvanha to cut watermelon slices in pokopia — Carvanha chops full watermelons into slices.

How to get Sea grapes

Sea grapes are the easier of the two exclusive ingredients. They grow wild all over Bubbly Basin, so you can gather them just by exploring. Sea grape seeds also show up in the shop from time to time and can turn up as treasure while you’re out, letting you plant your own crop for a steady supply.

Unlocking the Blender for smoothies

You can’t make most of these dishes without the Blender. To get it, unlock Mudkip and keep progressing through the main storyline until the Smoothie Making quest appears. Once you reach that quest, you can craft a Blender using two Pokémetal.

Blender in Pokopia — The Blender is crafted from two Pokémetal.

Because so many different Pokémon feed into this process, it’s worth building out the Bubbly Basin habitats as early as you can so the right specialists are ready when you need them. Unlocking Portal Pods also helps a lot, since it makes moving watermelons, sea grapes, and other ingredients between spots far less tedious.