Resident Evil 8 Village All Cooking Ingredients Locations

This guide shows all Cooking Ingredient Locations for making all dishes in Resident Evil 8 Village (RE8). There are 6 different Cooking Ingredients and 6 Cooking Recipes. Cooking is unlocked during the story after you obtain the second Winged Key part and meet with the Duke. You can then cook dishes at the Duke Merchant’s shop. Cooking recipes give you permanent buffs during the story that carry over to New Game+. They give you permanently more health and make you run faster, which is incredibly helpful for the highest difficulty playthrough. All cooking recipes are unlocked right away when you gain the option for cooking, but some ingredients can’t be found until later in the story. Cooking ingredients are limited so DON’T SELL THEM. There are a limited number of animals that spawn during a playthrough, and the special high-quality ingredients can only be obtained one time per playthrough.

Recipes

Below are all the recipes, the effect they give, and the required ingredients for each one.

Herbed Fish
Effect: Health slightly increases permanently
Ingredients: Fish (3), Poultry (2)

Bird and Beast Pilaf
Effect: Damage taken when guarding decreases permanently.
Ingredients: Poultry (4), Meat (1)

Three-Flavored Mititei
Effect: Health increases permanently
Ingredients: Fish (4), Poultry (2), Meat (3)

Tochitura de Pui
Effect: Health greatly increases permanently
Ingredients: Poultry (4), Meat(3), Juicy Game (1)

Ciorba de Porc
Effect: Damage taken when guarding greatly decreases permanently
Ingredients: Fish (1), Meat (5), Quality Meat (1)

Sarmale de Peste
Effect: Movement speed increases permanently
Ingredients: Fish (6), Finest Fish (1)

Locations

Locations are listed here in chronological order in which they can be obtained throughout the story!

Locations within the village are obtainable right up until the point of no return during the story, but there are a couple of regular ingredient locations that become unavailable after some story progression.

Fish (3)

Location: In the cave after leaving Castle Dimitrescu and going back to Village.

After you finish Castle Dimitrescu you will need to head back to the village. Along the way you go through a cave with a puddle of water and some fish swimming in there.

Fish (3)

Location: Pond beside bridge leading to Castle Dimitrescu

There are three fish swimming in the pond to the left of the raised drawbridge.

Poultry (2)

Location: Church Graveyard

Go through the Iron Insignia Key gate to the northeast of the church where you can find two chickens running around.

Poultry (2)

Location: Dead end south of Fallow Plot

Instead of progressing into the Fallow Plot, take a right to get to this dead-end where you can find another two chickens running around.

Quality Meat

Location: Back yard of the house you went through while going to Luiza’s house during the story.

Return to this location that you will have been through during story progression and there will now be a white pig running around, which when killed will give you the single Quality Meat obtained during a playthrough.

Meat (2)

Location: First house that you go past when you enter the village

You can return to the first house in the village you went by when going to the house with the red chimney. The pig is first located inside the building, then if you don’t kill it it will run out into the yard.

Poultry (3)

Location: Yard of the house with the red chimney

During the story, you are prompted to go to the house with the red chimney by the Duke. Before climbing up onto the rooftop you can find three chickens running around the yard.

Juicy Game

Location: Tree directly west of gate to Castle Dimitrescu

Located directly west of the gate to Castle Dimitrescu there is a bluebird. Shoot the bird to kill it and obtain this ingredient.

Meat (2)

Location: Yard south of Gardener’s House before House Beneviento

When you come back to this yard after you return to the village from getting the second flask, there will now be one sheep running around the yard.

Meat (4)

Location: In front of windmill leading to the reservoir

When going to get the flask from Moreau in the reservoir, you will see two pigs running around the area in front of the windmill.

Fish (3)

THESE ARE MISSABLE AND CANNOT BE OBTAINED AFTER YOU LEAVE THIS AREA.

Location: In a side cave after the first boat ride in the reservoir

After you obtain the boat key and do the first boat ride in Moreau’s area, there is a cave on the right side of the path that contains 3 fish. You cannot get back to this area once you have been past it, so these are missable.

Poultry (2)

THESE ARE MISSABLE AND CANNOT BE OBTAINED AFTER YOU LEAVE THIS AREA

Location: Side path after pumphouse in the reservoir

After passing through the pumphouse in Moreau’s area there is a small area to the right on the path that will have two chickens running around.

Fish (4)

THESE ARE MISSABLE AND CANNOT BE OBTAINED AFTER YOU LEAVE THIS AREA

Location: Drained area where you first obtained the boat, after defeating Moreau

Once the water in the reservoir is drained and you have defeated Moreau, instead of leaving you can go back to where you originally got the boat to find a new area where the water was drained. At the bottom is a small pond with two fish.

Poultry (2)

Location: Behind the mechanical door in East Old Town

Once you return from Moreau’s area with the crank you can open up this gate to the west of the southwest house in East Old Town. In this area you can find two chickens.

Finest Fish, Fish (2)

Location: Small pond in south river

After returning from Moreau’s area you can use the crank to lower the bridge in the area leading to the Ritual Site. You can then take the boat south along the river to a dock. From there head to the south where there will be a small pond that contains 2 normal fish and the 1 special fish.

Meat (4)

Location: Directly in front of the gate leading to Castle Dimitrescu

When you come back to the village after dealing with Moreau, there will now be two sheep running around in the graveyard area in front of the gate to Castle Dimitrescu.

Meat (2)

Location: Area before the entrance to Otto’s mill

Otto’s mill is located on the other path instead of going to the Stronghold. After breaking through the gate there will be a pig running around the area.

Meat (3), Poultry (1), Fish (1)

Location: Room after miniboss in Otto’s mill

Inside Otto’s Mill, a side area that you can enter after using the 6-winged unborn key on the gate in the village. Before going up the stairs to the stronghold, take a left turn to reach this hidden area. There is a miniboss enemy that wields a giant axe. Past the locked door it is in front of you can find these meat pickups around the room before the treasure chest.

That’s all of the cooking ingredients in RE8: Village. Make sure you cook all dishes before finishing the story. Then you get to keep all these permanent boosts in New Game+ (simply load your completed story save after finishing the game). It’s a big help for speedruns and highest difficulty runs.

For everything else needed for 100% completion, check out the full Resident Evil 8 Village Wiki & Strategy Guide.