Stardew Valley Food You Can Actually Eat | Games Rants

There is a wide range of activities that players can get into in Stardew Valley, but most of the game revolves around farming. Players often sell their harvested crops and animal products in their base form. However, there are different ways to use these harvested goods to create other kinds of food items that one can sell for a higher price, give as gifts, and or consume for stat buffs during drawn-out spelunking sessions. Players can create these products through cooking and food processing. While there are a variety of food items that one can cook in Stardew Valley, only some of the recipes in the game can be replicated in real life.

Unlocking the game’s cooking mechanic starts with upgrading one’s farmhouse to get the kitchen. The player can also get their foraging level to 9 to be able to acquire a Cookout Kit. The player can then gather the best food recipes in Stardew Valley from the Queen of Sauce on the TV or by buying them from Gus. Once they have these essentials, they can then start cooking using the ingredients they’ve acquired from their farm or Pierre’s General Store.

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Stardew Valley Recipes That Are Doable in Real-Life

The simplest dishes in Stardew Valley are often truer to life than the more complicated recipes. For example, the omelet only requires an egg and milk, which the player can buy and cook in real life. Some of the more complex food items, like the Stardew Valley pumpkin soup, only require the player to get milk and pumpkin, which isn’t consistent at all with what one would get to make a batch. Some of the more realistic food in the game include the following.

• Crab Cakes: According to Stardew Valley, these are made with one crab, wheat flour, egg, and oil. This makes for a good base for an actual crab cake. The player only needs to combine the crab, flour, and egg (with basic seasoning like salt and pepper), and fry the mixture in oil.
• Hashbrowns: The in-game recipe for this is just potatoes and oil, which is quite realistic. One only needs to julienne potatoes and mash them on a pan with hot oil until they’re golden brown. It’s as simple as making an omelet.
• Stir Fry: Stardew Valley says that the player needs a cave carrot from Stardew‘s mines, common mushroom, kale, and oil for this dish. This can work because one can use almost any kind of vegetable for a real-life stir-fry, as long as they have the right seasonings like soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, and chili paste.
• Crispy Bass: This dish calls for a largemouth bass, wheat flour, and oil. The player can take the same ingredients and cook it on their own, but they’ll need to get the fish fileted, bread it with flour and deep-fry it in hot oil until the breading is crispy and golden brown.
• Glazed Yams: Not to be mistaken with the new recipe glazed butterfish, this dish requires only yams and sugar. However, cooking this dish is much more complicated than its simple ingredient list. One will need to boil the yams and bake them afterward, then melt the sugar with butter in a pan to create the glaze.

Players can easily make Stardew Valley’s recipes in real life. If one wants to have an SV-themed dinner party, they can replicate some of the dishes themselves from the game’s ingredient list. If they want to make the more complex menu items, like the Squid Ink Ravioli, Spaghetti, Pink Cake, and Tom Kha Soup, they’ll have to scour the internet for a more accurate ingredient list.

Stardew Valley is available now for Mobile, Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS Vita, and Xbox One.

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