With the addition of Bubbly Basin to Pokemon Pokopia, the game has also introduced a new cooking method and a few new ingredients. This means that there are now several new recipes you can craft to power up your various Ditto abilities.
Specifically, once you’ve made enough progress through the main story, you’ll unlock the ability to make Smoothies and use Watermelons and Sea Grapes in other pre-existing dishes to make new variants.
How To Unlock The Blender
As mentioned, the Blender isn’t a recipe you’ll find lying around. Instead, you’ll need to wait until you’ve made enough progress in the main story for Mudkip to approach you with a request. For me, this happened after I built the big building for Popplio, but it may not take quite this long to unlock.
Mudkip will seek you out and provide you with the crafting recipe for a Blender, which unfortunately requires two Pokemetals. Once you’ve built the Blender, prepare any Smoothie and bring it to Mudkip to close out the request. You can now make Smoothies anytime you’d like!
Smoothies, like other dishes, power up an ability beyond the usual meter for a special boost. In this case, Smoothies power up Surf, the Lapras ability. This allows you to use Surf underwater, which is generally faster than swimming.
Where To Get Watermelon And Sea Grapes
The two new ingredients required for most of these recipes are Watermelon and Sea Grapes. Sea Grapes are little green grapes that grow on small plants on the ground and can be found all over Bubbly Basin, so you shouldn’t have too much trouble finding them. In fact, there are several just in the starting area of Bubbly Basin after you come through the gate.
As for Watermelon, this is only available after a task specifically tied to Corsola. After building Corsola’s habitat, they will eventually present you with a task related to growing Watermelon in a small garden in the main area. Once Corsola grows the Watermelon for you, you’ll need a Pokemon with the Chop ability to cut it before it can be used in recipes.
If you don’t already have a Pokemon with this ability, Corsola will give you the Habitat clue for Carvanha. However, these Pokemon can also chop Watermelon for you:
- Sharpedo
- Totodile
- Croconaw
- Feraligatr
- Buizel
- Golisopod
- Chewtle
- Drednaw
So feel free to use any of these options that you discover first. Once the Watermelon is sliced, bring it to Corsola to enjoy. This will complete the quest, and Corsola will continue to grow Watermelon in this same spot, which you can harvest and give to a Pokemon to chop as you see fit.
You will need several beverages from Vending Machines for the Smoothie Recipes, so I highly recommend placing a couple in Bubbly Basin so you have more than one to vend each day.
All New Bubbly Basin Recipes
For most of these, you’ll need a Pokemon with the Burn Specialty to accompany you while you make them. In Bubbly Basin, this is just Frillish or Jellicent.
|
New Dish |
Cooking Tool |
Recipe |
|---|---|---|
|
Popping Salad |
Cutting Board |
1x Leaf + Sea Grapes |
|
Popping Soup |
Cooking Pot |
1x Water + Sea Grapes |
|
Watermelon Bread |
Bread Oven |
1x Wheat + Watermelon Slices |
|
Explosive Hamburger Steak |
Pan |
2x Beans + 1x Sea Grapes + 1x Chili Sauce You must use a Pokemon with the Explode Specialty for this one. Otherwise, it will just make normal Hamburger Steak. Electrode and Voltorb are the only ones with this ability. |
|
Watermelon Smoothie |
Blender |
2-3x Watermelon Slices, 1x Watermelon Slices + (Aspear Berries, Chesto Berries, Rawst Berries, Pecha Berries, Beans, Wheat) |
|
Sea Grape Smoothie |
Blender |
1x Watermelon Slices + Sea Grapes |
|
Leppa Smoothie |
Blender |
1x Watermelon Slices + Leppa Berries |
|
Red Hot Smoothie |
Blender |
1x Watermelon Slices + 1x Carrot + 1x Chili Sauce |
|
Refreshing Soda Smoothie |
Blender |
1x Watermelon Slices + 1x Aspear Berry + 1x Soda Pop |
|
Coffee Parfait Smoothie |
Blender |
1x Watermelon Slices + 1x Moomoo Milk Coffee + 1x Bread |
