When is Turkey Day and how to prepare
Franklin, the Celebrity Chef will arrive in your town at 6 a.m. on Thursday, November 26 and stay until 22 p.m. During these hours, he will task you with finding the ingredients for all his most famous recipes. The basic ingredients are usually pretty easy to find, but there's also a special secret ingredient he won't tell you about. We list them below, but much of that speculation is based on previous Turkey Day events in the old Animal Crossing games. Things could change, so be prepared and check for updates on the day in case anything changes.
All you have to do to prepare is stock up on what the ingredients should be for his dishes. We list them below, along with some tips on how to find the secret ingredients if things are different from our list.
How to find secret ingredients
Once you've completed the recipes below, you can create an even better version using Franklin's Secret Ingredient. It'll just tell you what the main ingredients are, but the secret remains a mystery of course, with just clues to help you out. We list what the secret ingredient should be below, but in case things are different for you for some reason, here are some quick tips to find them out for yourself.
Talking to Franklin will at least give you a little clue as to the secret ingredient in the particular recipe he gave you. However, your fellow villagers have probably helped prepare this dish before and you can ask them for help. Talk to as many people as you can if you are having difficulty and they could give you exactly the information you are looking for. But unfortunately you don't need that, and you can just use our somewhat speculative list below.
Turkey's Ingredient List of the Day and How to Get More of them
Below is a complete list of all the ingredients you will likely need for Franklin's recipes during the Animal Crossing: New Horizon's Turkey Day event. As for how many you'll need, the more the better of course. Most of the items you only need one or two for each recipe, but only to complete the event. Manila clams and all pumpkin shapes if you'll want extras, as you can see in the recipe list at the very bottom.
- Manila clams
- Orange, green, white and yellow pumpkins
- Mold
- Round, flat and lean mushrooms
- Oyster
- Dungeness crab
- sea bass
- Olive plaice
- Touch
- Vivaneau
- Barred jaw
- Squid and sea urchin if in the southern hemisphere
All of these can be found by checking around your island or by fishing / diving. If you find yourself stuck in the day and need more, you can talk to your villagers who are in their house and are cooking to see if they will trade you for one. They might need something you already have, so just check with them before you fish, dive, or give up.
Turkey Day Recipes with Secret Ingredients
Once you have all of these ingredients, it's time to talk to Frankline and work on his recipes. Here's what they should be, if the game doesn't make any major changes from previous Turkey Day events.
- Clam chowder - 3 Manila clams (scallop secret ingredient)
- Pumpkin pie - 1 orange pumpkin and random second color pumpkin (add two more pumpkin colors as secret ingredients)
- Seafood gratin - Round, flat or lean mussels and mushrooms or an oyster (secret ingredient in Dungeness crab)
- The southern hemisphere replaces squid and sea urchin with mushrooms / oysters
- Meunière Fish - Sea bass and plaice, dab or red snapper (Barred Knifejaw secret ingredient)
Why are you doing all this work? To get items, of course.
Turkey Day Items & DIY Recipes
Each time you deliver an ingredient or complete a dish, you will receive an item from the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Turkey Day furniture set. These can of course come in the form of a DIY recipe, so we are listing the items needed to make this as well. These may also be available for purchase from Nook's Cranny the day after the event, but it's unclear if you need to earn them during Turkey Day for this to happen, so be sure to get them all just to be safe. Here is the full list ...
- Turkey Day Floor
- Day rug Turkey
- Turkey wall
- Turkey Day Casserole - 5 iron nuggets and 1 clay
- Turkey day chair - 5 wood, 2 hardwood and 2 softwood
- Turkey Day Decorations - 2 Softwood, 5 Weed, and 2 Clay
- Turkey Day Garden Bracket - 8 Stones and 3 Clay
- Turkey Day Hearth - 1 campfire, 30 stones and 10 clay
- Turkey Day Table Setting - 4 clay and 2 iron nuggets
- Turkey Day Wheat Decor - 10 Weeds
- Cornucopia
So that's it. This is our Turkey Day Guide for Animal Crossing: New Horizons including all recipes and ingredients with help for secret ingredients as well.
