Cynthia L. Herzog 
Cooking Mama’s Biggest Twist: Cooking! brings to the Cooking Mama series isn’t Instagram filters or an exciting new location. Not only Cooking Mama: Kitchen! only for mobile it has been released exclusively for Apple Arcade subscribers.
While some fans might lament that the next Cooking Mama title won’t be available on Nintendo Switch, the great thing about Cooking Mama on mobile is the promise of recurring updates. You can find empty slots in every cookbook with the text “Coming Soon”, seeming to hint that new recipes and more are in the near future. While we wait for news of more delicious treats, here are some of the best recipes to make in Cooking Mama: Kitchen!
ten churrasco
Everyone loves a good barbecue. Cooking Mama introduces us to this specific style of grilling popular in Brazil and Argentina. Although many types of meat are traditionally used in Churrasco, you can discover this recipe by choosing beef and pork among your daily ingredients.
What differentiates Churrasco from other types of barbecue is that the meat is usually skewered and grilled over an open flame. This makes this recipe’s mini-game particularly fun, especially the stage in which you have to time when you perfectly skewer each meat “kebab”.
9 Tonkatsu
Cooking Mama demystifies the process of cooking one of Japan’s most popular dishes. At the end of the day, Tonkatsu is simply a fried pork chop, and all you need to unlock this recipe is pork, flour, eggs and a pot.
What makes Tonkatsu different from your common fried pork is traditionally homemade panko style breadcrumbs which gives fried cutlets their characteristic flaky crust. This recipe shows how easy Tonkatsu is to make at home.
8 Samosa
You probably never imagined making your own samosas from scratch. With a certain flour, onion, potato, spices and a potyou are just a few steps away from making a Samosa for the first time.
The best part of this recipe is the step in which you learn how to fold your potato filling into this Samosa “dumpling” shape. After discovering this recipe, you will no longer want to buy your frozen Samosas.
seven cabbage roll
Another international twist on dumplings makes its way into Cooking Mama with Cabbage Rolls. This Polish dish, commonly known as Golumpki, takes cabbage, pork, onion, tomato and a cooking pot. Traditionally, cabbage rolls can be filled with pork or ground beef.
There are nine steps in total to cook this recipe, but for those unfamiliar with Polish cuisine, it’s interesting to learn just how simple its ingredients are.
6 Indonesian fried rice
Who doesn’t love fried rice? To cook this dish, you will need to have beef, rice, a chopper and a casserole in your daily ingredients. What sets Indonesian fried rice apart is the sauce it’s cooked in, which Cooking Mama presents as a mix of oyster sauce, fish sauce, chili sauce, and sugar, no doubt. giving the rice a mild yet spicy flavor.
The best part of the recipe is at the end when you get to try throwing the rice in the pot just like you see the professionals do.
5 Falafel
A staple of every halal cart, it turns out that making Falafel is surprisingly simple. Found under the “healthy recipes” cookbook, you will need beans, onion, garlic, a pot and a mixer to discover this dish.
The beauty of Falafel is that once you have all the ingredients, all you really have to do is chop them and put them in a blender. Shaping the Falafel into balls is also incredibly satisfying.
4 Jambalaya
You might think of Jambalaya as a spicy rice dish with an assortment of meat including shrimp, sausage and chicken. For the version of Cooking Mama on Jambalaya, you only need rice, onion, chicken, spices and a pan.
It’s a little clumsy to cut all the sausage links yourself, but the end product of delicious savory rice with sliced chicken and a spicy red sauce drizzled on top well worth it.
3 egg tart
Baking Cooking Mama’s Egg Tarts gives us a better understanding of why Aang from Avatar The Last Airbender loved his egg custard so much. For those unfamiliar with the dish, it might seem a little odd, but these rich, creamy baked goodies are popular not only in Hong Kong but also in Portugal.
To try it for yourself, you will need eggs, flour, milk and an oven among your daily ingredients in order to unlock this recipe from the “egg recipes” cookbook.
2 Donuts
Not only does Cooking Mama show us how to make traditional cake donuts, with powdered sugar and a chocolate frosted variation, but you can also discover a vegan version of the recipe for “Soy milk donuts”.
To make the classic donut, combine eggs, flour, milk and a pan. If you want to discover more variations, don’t be afraid to make the same recipe twice! Who knows what you’ll find.
1 Pancakes with soy milk
For all of our vegans and those who suffer from lactose, here is a sweet treat you can actually enjoy. According to Cooking Mama, all you need is flour, soy milk and a pan to make amazing pancakes.
If you can get your hands on the rest of Cooking Mama’s vegan ingredients, including vegan butter and coconut milk for extra whipped cream, this would be a great recipe to try for yourself.
