Tempura Recipe Guide (SoS: FoMT)

Holding a plate of Tempura in SoS:FoMT
Tempura Recipe
Where to Learn Inspiration
Ingredients
  • Egg
  • Wheat Flour
  • Oil
  • Eggplant
  • Yam
  • Pumpkin
Kitchen Equipment
  • Frying Pan

Tempura is a decadent and well-liked dish that you can make in Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. The best time to cook Tempura is in Autumn, because you can grow the ingredients needed to make it all season long.

Here’s everything you need to make Tempura in your kitchen:

Where To Learn the Recipe

Cooking inspiration is something that happens automatically as you make dishes with different ingredients. Once you’ve cooked with an ingredient a certain number of times, you can unlock a new recipe that uses the same item.

The farmer gets inspired to cook Tempura while in the kitchen. / Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town
The farmer gets inspired to cook Tempura while in the kitchen.

To learn the recipe for Tempura, you need to cook with the following ingredients:

Ingredients Number of dishes you need to cook
Eggs 3 dishes
Wheat Flour
Oil

Requirements

The farmer harvests Yams from a field in Autumn. / Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town
The farmer harvests Yams from a field in Autumn.

Equipment Needed

The equipment needed to make Tempura can be bought from Jeff at the General Store.

The downside is that Jeff sells his kitchen equipment one by one, in 10-day intervals after you buy the first of Gotts’ house remodeling upgrades.

This means that you can only access the next piece of equipment 10 days after the previous one becomes available for purchase.

Equipment Availability Cost
Frying Pan 10 days after the Cooking Pot becomes available for purchase


20 days after upgrading to the Medium House

1,200 G

Ingredients Needed

To cook Tempura, you’ll need to plant a lot of crops that can only be grown in the Summer and Autumn.

So if you want to make this dish in other seasons, make sure to stock up on extra ingredients!

Ingredients Where to Get
Egg
  • Harvest every day from mature chickens
Wheat Flour
  • Buy Wheat Flour from Jeff at the General Store for 50 G
Oil
  • Buy Oil from Jeff at the General Store for 50 G
Eggplant
  • Harvest every 3 days after 9 days of growth in Autumn
  • Eggplant seeds can be bought from the General Store for 120 G
Yam
  • Harvest every 3 days after 6 days of growth in Autumn
  • Yam seeds can be bought from the General Store for 300 G
Pumpkin
  • Harvest after 14 days of growth in the Summer
  • Pumpkin seeds can be bought from the General Store for 500 G

Tempura Uses

The farmer holds Tempura Udon in front of the Dining Table. / Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town
The farmer holds Tempura Udon in front of the Dining Table.

As Food

Tempura can be consumed by the farmer to restore a moderate amount of stamina. However, it does not offer any fatigue recovery.

Stamina Recovery Fatigue Recovery
+20 0

In Other Recipes

Dish Ingredients Equipment needed
Tempura Soba Zaru Soba, Tempura Cooking Pot
Tempura Udon Udon, Tempura Cooking Pot, Knife, Rolling Pin

Gifting Tempura

The farmer stands next to Jennifer while holding a plate of Tempura. / Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town
The farmer stands next to Jennifer while holding a plate of Tempura.

Tempura makes for an amazing liked gift for a few of the villagers in Mineral Town. Check out this quick gifting guide to find out who you can give Tempura to as a present.

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Villager Birthday Type of Gift Friendship/Love Points Earned
Marriage Candidates
Cliff Summer 6th Loved +9 FP, +500 LP
Karen Autumn 15th
Bon Vivant Spring 21st Liked +3 FP, +300 LP
Ran Summer 17th
Jennifer Winter 2nd
Villagers
Duke Winter 15th Loved +9 FP
Lou
Saibara Spring 11th Liked +3 FP
Harris Summer 4th
Thomas Summer 25th
Anna Autumn 23rd
Dudley Winter 11th
Nature Sprites
Sunny Autumn 10th Loved +9 FP

For extra brownie points, feel free to wrap your gift for 100 G at Jeff’s counter at the General Store to get a 25% bonus.

How To Sell Tempura

Any dishes made in your kitchen can’t be shipped through Zack and the Shipping Bin. However, you can start selling food to Huang once you become friends with him at 4 friendship notes.

To sell a dish to Huang, stand in front of his counter while holding the item.

Don’t interact directly with his sprite, as it will register as a gift instead.

The farmer stands in front of Huang’s counter while holding a plate of Tempura. / Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town
The farmer stands in front of Huang’s counter while holding a plate of Tempura.

Huang will then offer you a price, which you can actually reject for a chance at getting him to bid higher.

The price range for Tempura is anywhere between 280 G and 370 G.

If Huang offers you 290 G for the item, for example, you can turn him down and try again to get a higher price.

Huang offers to buy Tempura from the farmer. / Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town
Huang offers to buy Tempura from the farmer.

Keep in mind that his bids will never go lower or higher than this defined range, so 370 G is the maximum price you can get for selling Tempura.

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