Turkey Day event and recipes — Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide

Turkey DayIt is Animal Crossing – New Horizons’ equivalent to Thanksgiving, featuring Franklin He is the turkey chef. (He’s a turkey who is a chef, not a chef who cooks turkey.) Our Turkey Day guide will help you gather the best ingredients and reap the rewards for Animal Crossing’s Turkey Day.

When is Turkey Day celebrated?

Each year, on American Thanksgiving players will see Franklin sitting in the Resident Services area. He has a stovetop right in front of his face. He’ll need help gathering ingredients to make a delightful Turkey Day meal and if you help him, he’ll reward you with special Turkey Day DIY recipes and furniture.

Thanksgiving’s date shifts as it’s always on the fourth Thursday of November. These are the next five dates for Turkey Day:

• Nov. 25, 2021
• Nov. 24, 2022
• Nov. 23, 2023
• Nov. 28, 2024
• Nov. 27, 2025

Is Turkey Day a success?

The following recipes have a list of possible ingredients and one secret ingredient. After Franklin makes the dish, you can talk to him again if you have the secret ingredient and he’ll ask for it. Franklin will be able to give you the secret ingredient. This will allow you to get a bonus furniture piece. In order to get the Turkey Day DIY recipes, you’ll need to give him secret ingredients for all four recipes, so make sure to do that.

If you’re missing items like Mushrooms or Pumpkins, some of your villagers are cooking in their homes and may be able to help. They’ll trade specific fish in exchange for some necessary ingredients, so you can do that if you’re avoiding time traveling.

Once you help Franklin cook all four dishes, he’ll reward you with the DIY recipes for the dishes. If you miss out on the event, don’t worry, as they’ll be available for sale at Nook’s Cranny the next day.

Update (Nov. 23, 2021): We’ve added information based on the 2.0 update. According to our testing, we found that certain types of fish have been replaced by newer food items.

Turkey Day Recipes & Rewards

Clam Chowder Recipe

• 3 Manila Clams
• Secret ingredient: 1 Scallop

If you don’t want to turn down Pascal when he pops up from the ocean wanting the Scallop, you don’t have to. He’ll only appear once a day, so you can give him the first Scallop and dig up another one for Franklin.

RewardTurkey Day Rug

Pumpkin Pie recipe

• 1 Orange Pumpkin
• 1 green, white, or yellow pumpkin
• Secret Ingredients – 2 pumpkins with different colors than the ones submitted in the main recipe

Reward: Turkey Day Wall

Gratin recipe

• 1 Round Mushroom or 1 Skinny Mushroom. Or 1 Flat Mushroom.
• 1 Potato
• Secret Ingredient: 1 Dungeness Crab

RewardTurkey Day Flooring

Fish Meunière recipe

• 1 Sea Bass
• 1 Flour
• Barred Knifejaw is the secret ingredient

RewardCornucopia

Additional Turkey Day Rewards

While the initial rewards you get from Franklin, like the rug and Cornucopia, can’t be crafted, the first few rewards you’ll get for cooking with Secret Ingredients will yield Turkey Day furnishings that you can craft, once you get the recipes. You’re potentially able to get any of the following from Franklin before getting the recipes:

• Turkey Day Casserole
• Turkey Day Chair
• Turkey Day Decorations
• Turkey Day Garden Stand
• Turkey Day Hearth
• Turkey Day Table
• Turkey Day: Setting the Table
• Turkey Day Wheat Decor