The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Cooking Guide

Our The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Cooking Guide will show you how to wrap your hammer around the complex cooking system in Return to Moria. 

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Cooking Guide

If you want to survive for long in Return to Moria, you’re going to need to figure out cooking. Not only do you need food to prevent you from starving, but it’s also one of the best early-game ways to heal your dwarf. 

How to Cook

Basic cooking in Return to Moria requires two things, a hearth fire, and a meal table. You can build both of these with very basic materials, but you also have the option of creating more sturdy constructions. 

Build a camp hearth fire using 10 Wood Scraps, 6 Stone, and 6 Coal. When you place the fire, an orange square will indicate the area of the new camp where you can build other constructions. 

Construct a Meal Table as well (10 Wood Scraps) and place it near your hearth fire. Interact with the hearth to open the meal crafting menu. From here you can turn various ingredients into meals that will not only refill hunger but will also restore health. 

As you unlock new recipes, you'll eventually unlock other cooking utensils such as a Stove, a Roasting Pit, and an Oven. 

How to Unlock More Recipes

You can unlock more Meal recipes and Ration recipes in The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria by finding more Ingredients. You’ll start the game with only a couple of recipes in your hands, and you’ll have to explore the caverns of Moria to find more of them. 

Each time you come across a new ingredient item, you’ll unlock a new recipe to use that item in. You have to find every ingredient in a recipe to unlock it in the hearth (or other cooking stations), but once you do, you can cook that meal at any hearth with a meal table attached to it. 

How to Unlock More Brews

You can unlock more Brews in The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria by finding and completing Ranger Journals.

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Cooking Guide | Meal Recipes List

Here’s a list of all the cooking recipes that we’ve been able to find so far in Return to Moria. We've also included the cooking time and the crafting stations you'll need to actually create each meal. 

Each meal is sorted into one of three categories (Simple, Reasonable, Complex), with higher categories restoring more health and filling more of a hunger bar.

Simple Meals

• King's Omelette
  • Ingredients: 2 Egg
  • Cooking Time: 45 Seconds
  • Station: Hearth
• Mushroom Stew
  • Ingredients: 3 Mushrooms
  • Cooking Time: 45 Seconds
  • Station: Hearth
• Roast Meat
  • Ingredients: 3 Meat
  • Cooking Time: 45 Seconds
  • Station: Hearth
• Roasted Fruit
  • Ingredients: 3 Grabapple
  • Cooking Time: 45 Seconds
  • Station: Hearth
• Roasted Parsnips
  • Ingredients: 3 Parsnips
  • Cooking Time: 45 Seconds
  • Station: Hearth

Reasonable Meals

• Cranachan
  • Ingredients: 1 Cranberries, 1 Oat Milk, 1 Cave Honey
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Stove
• Deep Hash
  • Ingredients: 2 Deep Mushroom, 1 Egg
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Roasting Pit
• Erebor Strip Steak
  • Ingredients: 1 Thyme, 2 Meat
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Roasting Pit
• Fruit Pie
  • Ingredients: 1 Dough, 2 Grabapple, 1 Oat Milk
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Stove
• Fruit Salad
  • Ingredients: 1 Cave Honey, 2 Grabapple, 1 Cranberries
  • Cooking Time: 45 Seconds
  • Station: Hearth
• Glazed Meat Skewers
  • Ingredients: 2 Meat, 1 Cave Honey
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Roasting Pit
• Helm-fried Chips
  • Ingredients: 1 Salt, 2 Mountain Potato, 2 Meat
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Roasting Pit
• Mashed Potatoes
  • Ingredients: 2 Mountain Potato, 1 Oat Milk
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Stove
• Medley Skewers
  • Ingredients: 2 Mushrooms, 1 Sunion
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Hearth
• Mushroom Pie
  • Ingredients: 2 Mushrooms, 1 Dough
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Stove
• Overnight Bowl
  • Ingredients: 1 Milled Oats, 1 Cranberries
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Stove
• Refreshing Salad
  • Ingredients: 3 Aule Bloom, 3 Cabbage, 1 Cranberries
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Hearth
• Rommegrot Pudding
  • Ingredients: 1 Mint, 1 Oat Milk, 1 Cave Honey
  • Cooking Time: 45 Seconds
  • Station: Stove
• Scones
  • Ingredients: 1 Dough, 1 Oat Milk, 1 Chives
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Stove
• Smashed Curry
  • Ingredients: 1 Annuminas Spice, 1 White Beans, 2 Parsnips
  • Cooking Time: 90 Seconds
  • Station: Roasting Pit

Complex Meals

• Fire Roasted Stew
  • Ingredients: 1 Salt, 1 Parsnips, 1 Deep Mushroom, 2 Meat
  • Cooking Time: 120 Seconds
  • Station: Roasting Pit
• Meat Pie
  • Ingredients: 1 Dough, 2 Meat, 1 Sunion, 1 Thyme
  • Cooking Time: 120 Seconds
  • Station: Stove
• Meat Stew
  • Ingredients: 2 Meat, 2 Mushrooms, 2 Cabbage, 1 Sunion
  • Cooking Time: 120 Seconds
  • Station: Hearth
• Nana's Casserole
  • Ingredients: 1 Egg, 2 Mountain Potato, 1 Fennel, 1 Thanazutsam
  • Cooking Time: 120 Seconds
  • Station: Stove
• Shire Breakfast
  • Ingredients: 2 Meat, 1 White Beans, 1 Egg
  • Cooking Time: 120 Seconds
  • Station: Roasting Pit
• Stuffed Mushrooms
  • Ingredients: 1 Cranberries, 1 Sunion, 2 Mushrooms
  • Cooking Time: 120 Seconds
  • Station: Hearth

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Cooking Guide | Ration Recipes List

Some meals are also labeled 'rations', as you can take these away with you once cooked to help restore health in combat.

Simple Rations

• Biltong
  • Ingredients: 3 Meat
  • Cooking Time: 240 Seconds
  • Station: Oven

Reasonable Rations

• Beorn's Honey-cakes
  • Ingredients: 3 Khuzdul Oat, 1 Cave Honey
  • Cooking Time: 240 Seconds
  • Station: Oven
• Dried Fruit
  • Ingredients: 3 Grabapple
  • Cooking Time: 240 Seconds
  • Station: Oven
• Salted Meat
  • Ingredients: 3 Meat, 2 Salt
  • Cooking Time: 240 Seconds
  • Station: Oven

Complex Rations

• Cookies
  • Ingredients: 1 Dough, 1 Milled Oats, 1 Cranberries
  • Cooking Time: 120 Seconds
  • Station: Oven
• Cram
  • Ingredients: 3 Khuzdul Oat, 1 Cranberries, 1 Fennel
  • Cooking Time: 120 Seconds
  • Station: Oven
• Journey Bread
  • Ingredients: 1 Milled Oats, 1 Oat Milk, 2 Grabapple, 1 Annuminas Spice
  • Cooking Time: 120 Seconds
  • Station: Oven
• Lembas
  • Ingredients: 3 Aule Bloom, 3 Khuzdul Oat, 1 Elbereth's Blessing
  • Cooking Time: 240 Seconds
  • Station: Oven
  • Note: Lembas is the only Ration that fully restores Health and Energy.
• Pasties
  • Ingredients: 2 Meat, 1 Sunion, 1 Dough
  • Cooking Time: 120 Seconds
  • Station: Oven

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria Cooking Guide | Brews List

Brews are the various ales and beers that Dwarves are well-known for. You can either drink a Tankard straight from a Brewing Kettle or Craft a Brewskin once you've discovered Steel Ingots, Ubasam Wood, and Leather to take a Brew on the go.

Tankards are the equivalent of Meals and must be used right away and Brewskins can be carried in your inventory like Rations. Drinking a portion of a Tankard or Brewskin will fill up a progress bar in the Buffs/Debuffs area of the UI; you won't get the full benefit until you drink 4 servings of a Brew. Changing Weapons while holding an unfinished Tankard will spill the Brew and destroy that Tankard.

Brews

• Evening Ale
  • Ingredients: 25 Khuzdul Oat, 6 Cranberries
  • Brewing Time: 1,200 Seconds
  • Buff: Refills some Energy
  • Station: Brew Kettle
  • Unlocked By: Default
• Ironheart Stout
  • Ingredients: 20 Khuzdul Oat, 2 Chitin, 1 Scales
  • Brewing Time: 1,800 Seconds
  • Buff: Increases all Damage Resistances
  • Station: Brew Kettle
  • Unlocked By: Completing The Bastion Ranger Journal in The Eastern Bastion
• Orkish Medicine
  • Ingredients: 20 Biteweed, 4 Bones, 2 Chitin, 2 Cave Honey
  • Brewing Time: 1,500 Seconds
  • Buff: Increases Stamina and Damage but causes damage over time to your Dwarf
  • Station: Brew Kettle
  • Unlocked By: Completing the Deeps Ranger Journal in The Lower Deeps
• Scour Pilsner
  • Ingredients: 16 Khuzdulk Oat, 13 Poison Mushroom, 4 Sunken Moss
  • Brewing Time: 540 Seconds
  • Buff: Prevents and cures Poison
  • Station: Brew Kettle
  • Unlocked By: Picking up Poison Mushroom

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