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Persona 5: The Phantom X (P5X)

Cooking Guide: Best Food Recipes

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Persona 5: The Phantom X (P5X) has plenty of dishes that can provide healing and buffs to characters. Learn what the best dishes to cook, how to unlock more recipes, and their effects!

Best Dishes To Bring to the Palace

Tonkatsu Is the Best Dish for Recovery

Dish Ingredients & Effect
TonkatsuTonkatsu When used, the entire party recovers up to 16% of maximum HP.
・Flour x1
・Eggs x1
・Pork x1

The Tonkatsu dish provides the best recovery item, both for its affordability, as well as its higher effectivity compared to other recovery items available at the convenience store.

Comparison with its Convenience Store Counterpart

Recovery Amount Price
Tonkatsu 16% of Total Maximum HP ¥300
Onigiri 14.4% of Total Maximum HP ¥500

Manju and Tongan Tea Most Effective During Boss Battles

Dish Ingredients & Effect
TonkatsuTogan Tea When used, the entire party increases its HP by 8% for twenty fights.
・Togan x2
・Sugar x2
TonkatsuManju When used, the entire party recovers up to 16% of Maximum HP.
・Mochigome x1
・Azuki x1
・Sugar x1

There are many items that can boost your party when battling tough bosses. Togan Tea as well as Manju are powerful items to bring in a fight as their duration lasts a long time.

Bringing dishes that boost your maximum HP will help you in boss fights especially!

Sweet Kinako Mochi Best for Increasing Attack Power

Dish Ingredients & Effect
Sweet Kinako MochiSweet Kinako Mochi When used, the entire party increases attack by 8% for 20 battles.
・Glutinous Rice x2
・Sugar x1

The ingredients for this dish is affordable for its intended effect, and increasing your attack power lets your party take on more foes with ease. Palaces become easier to tackle, and this particular dish is also useful when up against bosses!

Chinese Medicinal Soup a Must Have for Debuffing

Dish Ingredients & Effect
Chinese Medicinal SoupChinese Medicinal Soup When used, the entire party increases ailment accuracy by 14.4 for 15 battles.
・Crucian Carp x1
・Tofu x1
・Leeks x1

Taking the time to debuff your enemies gives you a strategic advantage in battles. Using this dish increases the odds of debuffing your enemies more consistently, making it particularly useful against bosses.

How to Unlock More Recipes

Increase the Synergy Level of a Specific Character

Persona 5 The Phantom X - Synergy Rank Rewards

Increasing your synergy levels with your accomplices by spending time together or giving them gifts can give you more recipes. When you make enough time for them, they are sure to drop more useful recipes for you!

Synergy Bonds Guide: All Synergies

Leveling Up Your Cooking To Master Level

Cooking Screen - Better

Times Created Recipe Mastery
5 Amateur
10 Skilled
15 Professional
20 Master

Cooking a specific dish multiple times increases your mastery over it, and reaching Master level for a dish may allow you to learn a new recipe when you cook it again.

Learning a new recipe however is not guaranteed, and not all dishes are able to be mastered. This is also a huge investment and will need a lot of money beforehand.

Recipes at the Batting Center

Batting Center Recipe

Recipes Available at the Batting Center
Stewed Chicken Beef Tataki

The Batting Center has a short minigame where you can earn points by batting at the baseball thrown at you. Earning enough points lets you purchase rewards from their store, such as recipes or Platinum Tickets!

Where to Obtain Ingredients for Cooking

Ingredients are Available at the Supermarket

Supermarket
There are several supermarkets available in the game that offers a wide array of ingredients for you to purchase. Keep in mind that each supermarket may sell different ingredients, depending on the location, and you'll need to visit two or three supermarkets to create one dish.

Warping to The Missing Ingredients Using the Cooking Screen

Missing Ingredient
It's possible to warp to the supermarket when you're missing an ingredient while cooking. You'll be able to warp back home immediately after purchasing what you need from the store.

Using the Home Garden for Ingredients

Home Garden
There is a garden available at home that you can use to cultivate certain ingredients with ease. Some homegrown plants may not even be available at the store, and so investing time in your garden is incredibly crucial in obtaining certain ingredients.

Effects of Dishes

Three Main Effects For Dishes

Attack ・Attack Power Up
・Critical Rate Up
Recovery ・Maximum HP % Recovery
・SP Recovery
Defense ・Increase defense by a certain percentage

Dishes can be consumed during battle or outside battle in a Palace. There are three potential effects depending on the dish, and using it strategically can help you win an unwinnable battle.

Superb Dishes Are More Effective

Ordinary Food Superb Food
Ordinary Food
Up to 9.6% ailment accuracy
Superb Food
Up to 12% ailment accuracy

There are rare occassions when cooking a dish causes your character to create a Superb dish instead, and its stats compared to the normal dish are far superior.

Rewards for Cooking

Increasing the Charm Social Stat

Persona 5 The Phantom X - Social Stats
Cooking a new dish for the first time allows you to increase your Charm by two, which is incredibly useful as it does not advance time to obtain.
Social Stats Guide: How to Max Stats Fast

Recovery and Buff Items Are Important in the Palace

Recovery-Items
Being prepared with recovery and buff items while in a Palace is useful when your party faces against powerful foes. Using dishes to buff your party lets you recover HP, or even increase your attack and defensive prowess!

Persona 5: The Phantom X Related Guides

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Beginner's Guide

Game Mechanics

How to Reroll Leveling Guide: How to Level Up Fast
Social Stats Guide: How to Max Stats Fast Stamina Guide: How to Restore Stamina
Pity Explained: Banner Pity Rates Dating Guide: Is There Romance?
Schema Guide: Best Skills for Wonder Daily Tasks
How to Link Your Account and its Benefits Fusion Guide: How Does Fusion Work?
How to Get Action Points Multiplayer Guide: Is There Co-op?
Guild Guide: How to Join Companio and Benefits How to Edit Profile
Friend System: Friendship Points Explained How to Use Third Eye
Realm of Repression Guide: What to Prioritize? Metro of Desire Event: Content and Duration
Stats Guide How Does Fast Forward Work?
How to Use Items How to Save
Best PC Settings and Keyboard Bindings Workbench Guide
Mindscape Guide Trial of Thorns Guide
Tasks Guide S-Level Guide

Combat Guides

How to Change Turn Order How to Build Up Highlight
How to Guard and Increase Defense Combat Guide: Attributes and Affinities
How to Perform All-Out Attacks How to Increase Damage
How to Increase Damage Status Effects Guide
Assist System: How to Do One More -

City Life Activity Guides

Activities Guide: How Does the Calendar Work? Shichi-kun Quiz Answers and Rewards
How to Read Books Cooking Guide: Best Food Recipes
Fortune Telling Guide: Effects and Schedule -

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Batting Cage Guide: How to Hit A Home Run Soccer Club Guide
Music Club Guide Fishing Guide
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Currency Guides

Battle Pass Guide: Should You Buy The Pass? Lufel's Business Plan Guide and Rewards
Daily Login Guide: Events and Rewards Money Guide: How to Get Yen Fast
How to Get Konpaku Gems All Free Items

FAQs

How to Get Preregistration Rewards What is the Protagonist's Name?
Is There Controller Support? Daily Reset Timer: When Do Dailies Reset?
Do Choices Matter? P5X vs. P5R: Story and Combat Differences
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