How to make the Mysterious Cajun Recipe in Disney Dreamlight Valley

It's a premium five-star dish.

Standing in Tiana's Palace in Disney Dreamlight Valley.
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A strange cookbook and a partial memory hint that someone who’s been lost from the village needs to be rescued in Disney Dreamlight Valley. To save this character, you have to solve and cook the Mysterious Cajun Recipe.

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Making this dish can be confusing because you have to keep track of various ingredients recalled by different characters. It’s also a fairly complex meal to cook, so here’s how to make the Mysterious Cajun Recipe in Disney Dreamlight Valley.

What is the Mysterious Cajun Recipe in Disney Dreamlight Valley?

Characters gathered for a picnic in Disney Dreamlight Valley.
Cooking this dish helps you recruit a new valley villager. Screenshot by Dot Esports

The Mysterious Cajun Recipe in Disney Dreamlight Valley is Enchanted Shrimp Étouffée, a dish that was prepared by Tiana before she disappeared from the valley. You can piece together that this is the name of the dish as you uncover all the required ingredients during the A Taste for Literature quest.

It’s a five-star meal that has one special ingredient, which makes it a quest-exclusive dish you can only cook once. Making this meal is essential if you want to unlock Tiana since she got trapped in a magic cookbook and the only way to bring her back is by sharing her love of cooking with others through her recipe.

How to cook the Mysterious Cajun Recipe in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Enchanted Shrimp Etouffee in Disney Dreamlight Valley.
You can make this exquisite dish at any cooking station. Screenshot by Dot Esports

To cook the Mysterious Cajun Recipe, otherwise known as Enchanted Shrimp Étouffée, you need five different ingredients:

  • Shrimp
  • Onion
  • Rice
  • Milk
  • Dreamlight Peppers

You must have the correct ingredients assembled at a cooking station to cook this dish since Dreamlight Peppers are a quest-exclusive item that can only be obtained once. The cooking button will be blocked if you use any of the wrong ingredients to prevent you from losing this item, so if you’re unable to cook and aren’t sure why, review all the ingredients you added to make sure they match the ones listed here.

Once this dish has been made, you can progress toward unlocking Tiana so she can join your valley permanently. You can then help her set up a restaurant and meal stall in Back from the Bayou, which helps expand the number of culinary options present in your village.

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Kacee Fay
Staff Writer at Dot Esports covering new releases and a wide array of topics including Minecraft, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Phasmophobia, general gaming, streaming, and more. She has been avidly writing and gaming her whole life and now spends her time combining the two. Kacee graduated from San Diego State University in 2021 with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Certificate in Creative Editing and Publishing. She then joined Dot Esports as a Freelance Writer in 2022 before transitioning to a Staff Writer in 2023. In her spare time, she enjoys buying more books than she can read, gaming alone or with friends, drinking too much tea, attending concerts, fangirling over movies and television, listening to music, and spending time with her family, friends, and pets, who are the most important parts of her world.