Every Grow a Garden cooking recipe — ingredient slots, base cook time, and weight — for all 25 dishes the Cooking Pot produces. Sourced from the GAG Fandom Food page; no sell values are listed because the source does not publish them.
Any recipe, as long as it isn't a recipe for another food.
Cooking is a Cosmetic-gated mechanic in Grow a Garden. Once you place a Cooking Pot, you can combine harvested crops into dishes. The flow is:
Slot vs category. Recipes mix two slot styles. A fixed slot (e.g., Bamboo: Bamboo) accepts only the listed crops. A category slot (e.g., Filling: Sweet Crops) accepts any crop tagged with that type. Category lists are maintained on the Fandom wiki and update with each game patch — see the Crop Wiki for the live category membership.
What this page does not do. The Fandom Food page lists slots, base time, and base weight. It does not publish per-dish sell prices or NPC reward tables. Some third-party sites publish those numbers, but they are not corroborated by a primary source — so we omit them. Treat your in-game Sell Stand reading as the source of truth for sell value.
The Burger recipe has three slots:
Drop one crop into each slot, start the pot, and wait 7 min(the Burger’s base cook time). The finished Burger weighs 2kg by default.
These categories appear inside recipe slots. The full live membership for each lives on the Fandom wiki and shifts with each patch — descriptions below are stable summaries.
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Sweet Crops | Any crop in the Sweet Type category (e.g., Watermelon, Sugar Apple, Cherry Blossom). See the Crop Wiki for the full list. |
| Fruit Crops | Any crop in the Fruit Type category (e.g., Apple, Avocado, Banana, Pineapple). |
| Berry Crops | Any crop in the Berry Plants category (e.g., Blueberry, Raspberry, Cranberry). |
| Vegetable Crops | Any crop in the Vegetable Type category (e.g., Carrot, Cabbage, Asteris). |
| Root Crops | Any crop in the Root Type category (e.g., Carrot, Beetroot, Parsnip). |
| Candy Crops | Any crop in the Candy Type category (e.g., Candy Sunflower, Candy Cane). Mostly event-limited. |
| Flower Crops | Any crop in the Flower Type category (e.g., Daffodil, Lily of the Valley, Lavender). |
| Toxic Crops | Any crop in the Toxic Type category (e.g., Nightshade, Venus Fly Trap, Mandrake). |
| Woody Crops | Any crop in the Woody Type category (e.g., Acorn, Bamboo Tree, Sugarwood). |
Players combine harvested crops in a Cooking Pot to produce dishes. Each recipe has named ingredient slots (e.g., "Bread", "Meat", "Leafy") — every slot must be filled with a crop from that slot's allowed list or category. The dish then cooks for its base time and produces a finished food item with the listed base weight.
Food can be sold at the Sell Stuff stand, used to feed pets to restore hunger, given to NPCs on their birthdays for rewards, or used as inputs to gated crafting recipes. The Cooking Pot itself is acquired as a Cosmetic.
No. The GAG Fandom Food page — our authoritative source for recipe data — does not publish dish sell prices. We do not speculate on sell values, so this guide intentionally lists only what the source publishes: slot inputs, base cook time, and base weight.
Soup is a wildcard recipe: any crop combination that does not match another recipe will cook into a Soup. It has no fixed slot list — Soup is what the Cooking Pot produces when nothing else fits. Base time is 5 minutes, base weight 0.5kg.
Base time is the unmodified cook duration listed on the Fandom recipe page. In-game modifiers (gear, gamepasses, event boosts) can shorten it. The base time gives you the floor; treat in-game readings on top of that as the source of truth.
Crop mutations alter the crop's sell value before cooking, but the cooking system in GAG operates on the base ingredient — mutation multipliers don't carry into the cooked dish on the Fandom-documented mechanics. If you're trying to maximize cooked-food value, focus on the right slot ingredients for the right NPC reward, not on mutating the inputs.
Some recipe slots accept any crop in a broad type category instead of a fixed list. "Sweet Crops" means any crop tagged Sweet on the Fandom wiki; "Fruit Crops" means any crop tagged Fruit; and so on. The Crop Categories Reference section below describes each category.
Full database with rarities and types — find the right slot ingredient.
Stack mutations to find a crop's sell value before you cook it.
Mutation chains and pet pairings to maximize crop value.
Every mutation, multiplier, and trigger.
Event-only crops show up in Sweet, Candy, and Toxic categories.
Day-one walkthrough — get to a Cooking Pot the right way.