How to Make Salad in Grow a Garden
Last updated September 2026
Quick answer
Salad is cooked in the Cooking Kit from 7 rarity tiers. It always takes 5 minutes and weighs 1.2kg at base. The lowest tier is Common (1x Tomato + 1x Carrot); the best is Prismatic (1x Tomato + 4x Bone Blossom). Across every tier this dish uses 14 different crops.
A flexible recipe that scales from Common to Prismatic. Tomato is the anchor ingredient across all tiers.
Salad ingredients by rarity tier
7 tiers, 11 known ingredient combinations in total. Higher-rarity crops in the pot push the output tier up — mutated crops count as higher-rarity inputs.
| Rarity tier | Ingredients | Alternative combo |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 1x Tomato + 1x Carrot | 2x Tomato |
| Uncommon | 1x Lilac + 1x Pear + 1x Tomato | — |
| Rare | 1x Corn + 1x Tomato | — |
| Legendary | 2x Blood Banana + 2x Tomato | 1x Bamboo + 1x Beanstalk + 1x Strawberry |
| Mythical | 1x Tomato + 1x Pepper + 1x Sugar Apple | — |
| Divine | 4x Sugar Apple + 1x Tomato | 4x Grand Tomato |
| Prismatic | 1x Tomato + 4x Bone Blossom | 1x Bell Pepper + 4x Bone Blossom |
Every crop Salad uses
14 crops appear in at least one Salad combination. Sorted by base value — the rarest ones only show up in the top tier, so plant them separately from your bulk crops.
| Crop | Rarity | Base value | Seed cost | Grow time | Used by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bone Blossom | Transcendent | 181K | 100B | 2h 52m | 11 recipes |
 Grand Tomato | Divine | 79.4K | — | 5h 52m | 2 recipes |
 Sugar Apple | Prismatic | 43.3K | 20M | 53m | 9 recipes |
 Lilac | Legendary | 31.6K | 199 | 2m | 1 recipe |
 Beanstalk | Prismatic | 25.3K | 10M | 3h 41m | 5 recipes |
 Pear | Rare | 18.1K | — | 21m | 1 recipe |
 Pepper | Divine | 7.2K | 1M | 10m | 5 recipes |
 Blood Banana | Mythical | 5.4K | 200K | 15m | 1 recipe |
 Bell Pepper | Mythical | 5K | 55K | 29m | 1 recipe |
 Bamboo | Legendary | 3.6K | 4K | 4m | 2 recipes |
 Corn | Rare | 36 | 1.3K | 1h 49m | 11 recipes |
 Tomato | Rare | 27 | 800 | 18m | 5 recipes |
 Carrot | Common | 18 | 10 | 8s | 2 recipes |
 Strawberry | Common | 14 | 50 | 32s | 7 recipes |
Where Salad sits in the recipe list
Ranked against all 15 cooking recipes in Grow a Garden.
Recipes that share ingredients with Salad
If you already grow the crops for Salad, these dishes reuse the same plots.
Salad FAQ
How do you make Salad in Grow a Garden?
Put the ingredients into your Cooking Kit's pot and press Cook. Salad has 7 known rarity tiers — the lowest is Common (1x Tomato + 1x Carrot) and the highest is Prismatic (1x Tomato + 4x Bone Blossom). The dish always takes 5 minutes to cook regardless of which tier you aim for.
What ingredients does Salad need?
Across all 7 tiers, Salad uses 14 different crops: Bone Blossom, Grand Tomato, Sugar Apple, Lilac, Beanstalk, Pear, Pepper, Blood Banana, Bell Pepper, Bamboo, Corn, Tomato, Carrot, Strawberry. You never need all of them at once — each tier has its own two-crop or three-crop combination.
What is the best tier of Salad?
The Prismatic tier is the best version, made with 1x Tomato + 4x Bone Blossom. An alternative Prismatic combo is 1x Bell Pepper + 4x Bone Blossom. Reaching it needs 2 ingredient slots filled with high-rarity crops — the hardest one to source here is Bone Blossom (181K base value).
How long does Salad take to cook?
Salad cooks in 5 minutes. That puts it at rank 6 of 15 recipes by cook time, where the fastest is Candy Apple (3 min) and the slowest is Burger (10 min).
Is Salad worth cooking in Grow a Garden?
Salad uses 14 crops — rank 1 of 15 recipes by ingredient count, and its easiest ingredient to restock is Carrot. That is a lean ingredient list, so it is one of the cheaper dishes to farm repeatedly. Cook it during Chris P. Bacon's craving event for the biggest payoff.