Pokemon Scarlet & Violet: The Best Shiny Sandwich Recipes

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Pokemon Scarlet and Violet added new and interesting mechanics to the familiar world of Pokemon; one of them is the Picnic feature, where you can sit back and take a bite of a freshly prepared sandwich with your furry pals. However, this new Sandwich mechanic in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet isn’t just for show; eating them with specific recipes can actually improve your chances of spawning specific Pokemon Types and boost their Shiny probabilities as well!

Thankfully, users The_Time_Is_Nigh and Nanikos from Gbatemp.net have done all the heavy lifting and discovered the best Sparkling Sandwich Filling combinations to considerably buff up specific Typing and Shiny encounters, so you don’t have to do the hard work yourself. Check out the complete recipe list below.

[Updated August 21, 2024 – Updated links and clarified information]

The Best Shiny and Typing Sparkling Sandwich Recipes – Pokemon Scarlet & Violet

Pokemon Type	Sparkling Sandwich Ingredients
Normal	– Chorizo x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x2
Fire	– Basil x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x1 – Sweet Herba Mystica x1
Water	– Cucumber x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x2
Grass	– Lettuce x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x1 – Sour Herba Mystica x1
Flying	– Prosciutto x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x2
Fighting	– Pickles x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x2
Poison	– Noodles x1 – Herba Mystica x2
Electric	– Yellow Bell Pepper x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x1 – Spicy Herba Mystica x1
Ground	– Ham x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x2
Rock	– Jalapeno x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x2
Psychic	– Onion x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x2
Ice	– Klawf Stick x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x2
Bug	– Cherry Tomato x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x2
Ghost	– Red Onion x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x2
Steel	– Hamburger x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x1 – Sweet Herba Mystica x1
Dragon	– Avocado x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x2
Dark	– Smoked Fillet x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x1 – Sweet Herba Mystica x1
Fairy	– Tomato x1 – Salty Herba Mystica x2

To start making your own custom Sandwich with personal Fillings and Condiments (instead of picking one from the available recipes), interact with the Picnic Table on the opposite side of the Egg Basket and press the X button to open Creative Mode.

According to user Nanikos in the forum thread, there are several things to note. First, regarding the Fillings:

All Fillings can be obtained from any Sure Cans, Deli Cioso, and the Aquiesta Supermarket in Levincia.
Herba Mystica only comes from 5-star Raids, post-game content that you unlock after beating the Pokemon League. Here’s how you can farm them fast.

Then, as long as you put a minimum of two Condiments, you will get always get Sparkling and Title Power; the third Power seems to depend on the combination of Condiments you use. Meanwhile, using more than two Herba Mysticas does not change the results; for that reason, always use only two Herbas, or you are just wasting them.

Also, at some point in the game, Saguaro, the Home Economics teacher, will ask for a Sweet Herba Mystica. You might want to wait until you have farmed, or just don’t give it to him, as he will just give you a measly Slowpoke Cup in return.

Obviously, the best way to utilize these Sandwich recipes to catch Shiny Pokemon in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet is to wait until there’s an Outbreak and then eat Sparkling Sandwiches. Keep in mind that how long an Outbreak is not based on time but depends on the number of Pokemon defeated, and you can leave one Outbreak for another; there should be no increase or decrease in the number of spawns until the Pokemon disperse. You can also try the famous Masuda Method breeding technique once you have several Pokemon in the same Egg Group.

Pokemon Types Based on Sandwich Fillings

Apple: Flying, Ice, Steel
Avocado: Dragon, Fighting, Normal
Bacon: Rock, Fighting, Normal
Banana: Normal, Electric, Bug
Basil: Fire, Grass, Water
Cheese: Normal, Flying, Fighting
Cherry Tomato: Bug, Fighting, Normal
Chorizo: Normal, Normal, Bug
Cucumber: Water, Fighting, Normal
Egg: Flying, Flying, Steel
Fried Fillet: Normal, Ground, Flying
Green Bell Pepper: Poison, Fighting, Normal
Ham: Ground, Fighting, Normal
Hamburger: Steel, Fighting, Normal
Herbed Sausage: Fighting, Fighting, Ghost
Jalapeno: Rock, Fairy, Grass
Kiwi: Poison, Dragon, Fire
Klawf Stick: Ice, Fighting, Normal
Lettuce: Grass, Fighting, Normal
Noodles: Poison, Rock, Ground
Onion: Psychic, Fighting, Normal
Pickle: Fighting, Flying, Normal
Pineapple: Ground, Dark, Water
Potato Salad: Bug, Steel, Ghost
Potato Tortilla: Fighting, Rock, Poison
Prosciutto: Flying, Fighting, Normal
Red Onion: Ghost, Fighting, Normal
Red Bell Pepper: Fire, Fighting, Normal
Rice: Normal, Flying, Fighting
Smoked Fillet: Dark, Fighting, Normal
Tofu: Normal, Flying, Fighting
Tomato: Fairy, Fighting, Normal
Strawberry: Fighting, Psychic, Ghost
Watercress: Normal, Flying, Fighting
Yellow Bell Pepper: Electric, Fighting, Normal

Nanikos then added that you need to balance the ingredients if you want to increase the spawn rate of specific Pokemon Types. As a test, they used Strawberry and Kiwi for the Sandwich recipe:

Filling	Condiment	Result
Strawberry	Sweet Herba Mystica x1	– Title (Fighting – Lvl2) – Catching (Psychic – Lvl2) – Item Drop (Ghost – Lvl1)
Kiwi	Sweet Herba Mystica x1	– Title (Poison – Lvl2) – Catching (Dragon – Lvl2) – Item Drop (Fire – Lvl1)

Based on that test, Nanikos wrote that if you put 2 Kiwis and 1 Strawberry, the Kiwi’s Typings will take priority. And vice-versa, 2 Strawberries and 1 Kiwi, then the Strawberries Typing will come first. But if you can balance them and only use 1 of each, you can mix and match the result; in their example, combining 1 Kiwi and 1 Strawberry gave them Fighting, Ghost, and Poison spawn boost.

However, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have an internal system that dictates which ingredients take priority for the typings you get when mixing them. As a further example: