Stir-Fried Water Spinach
Complete guide to the Stir-Fried Water Spinach recipe in Starsand Island, including ingredients, cooking station, sell price, stamina recovery, recipe location, ingredient sourcing, and profitability analysis.
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Stir-Fried Water Spinach is a simple cooking recipe in Starsand Island that turns a single crop into a quick meal. It requires only 3 Water Spinach with no additional ingredients, making it one of the easiest dishes to prepare in the game. The recipe is cooked on a Gas Stove or Campfire and takes 57 seconds to finish.
Stir-Fried Water Spinach restores 58 stamina when eaten, making it a practical field snack during exploration, farming, or mining. It does not grant any special buff, but the low ingredient cost and fast cooking time make it a reliable stamina source in the early game.
The dish sells for 81 Coins, which is notably higher than selling the raw Water Spinach individually. Since one harvest of Water Spinach produces 4 units and the recipe needs only 3, you get one cooked dish per harvest with a spare unit left over. This makes Stir-Fried Water Spinach a strong early-game recipe for both sustenance and income.
Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
Recipe Name | Stir-Fried Water Spinach |
Ingredients | |
Cooking Station | |
Cooking Time | 57 seconds |
Stamina Restored | +58 |
Buff | None |
Sell Price | 81 Coins |
Recipe Source | Exploration (treasure chest) |
The Stir-Fried Water Spinach recipe is found inside a treasure chest located southwest of the Aureleaf Kitchen. You need to discover and open this chest before the recipe appears in your cooking menu. The recipe is categorized as an Exploration recipe, meaning it is not sold in any shop and cannot be earned through profession trials or quest rewards.
When exploring the area around Starsand Town, keep an eye out for treasure chests along the paths south and west of the kitchen building. Opening the correct chest will add Stir-Fried Water Spinach to your recipe book permanently.
The only ingredient is Water Spinach, a vegetable crop that grows during Summer. You need 3 Water Spinach per dish, with each harvest yielding 4 units (one spare per cycle). Here is how to obtain a steady supply.
Seeds: Water Spinach Seeds are sold by Graminova at the Happiness Seed Shop for 65 Coins per seed bag. You need the Apprentice Farmer tier to unlock them.
Growth time: 1 day. This is one of the fastest growth cycles in the game.
Yield: 4 Water Spinach per harvest (single harvest, then replant).
Season: Summer only (28 days per season).
Plot type: Grows on both regular Farmland and Paddy Fields. Paddy Fields skip manual watering since the flooded soil handles irrigation automatically.
Foraging: Water Spinach can occasionally be found while foraging, chopping trees, or clearing shrubs.
Grinder recycling: At Senior Farmer tier, you can grind Water Spinach back into seeds using the Grinder, creating a self-sustaining seed supply.
Everlasting Seeds: Once you obtain Everlasting Water Spinach Seeds, the plant regrows after each harvest without needing to replant, eliminating the ongoing 65 Coin seed cost entirely.
Cooking Water Spinach into Stir-Fried Water Spinach increases its sale value compared to selling the raw crop. The table below breaks down the numbers.
Method | Revenue | Seed Cost | Net Profit |
|---|---|---|---|
Sell 4 raw Water Spinach | 96 Coins (4 x 24) | 65 Coins | 31 Coins |
Cook into Stir-Fried Water Spinach | 81 Coins | 65 Coins | 16 Coins |
At first glance, selling the 4 raw Water Spinach for 96 Coins appears more profitable than cooking them into a dish that sells for 81 Coins. The raw route yields a net profit of 31 Coins per harvest, while the cooked route nets 16 Coins.
However, Stir-Fried Water Spinach has value beyond its sell price. Each serving restores 58 stamina, making it a cheap field snack. If you eat the dish instead of selling it, you save yourself from buying stamina food elsewhere. The real benefit of this recipe is converting a low-value crop into functional stamina recovery at minimal cost.
For pure profit maximization, selling raw Water Spinach (or selling to the Merchant Ship at roughly double the standard price) will earn more Coins. But if you need a steady supply of stamina food during Summer, cooking Stir-Fried Water Spinach is a practical choice that keeps your exploration and farming going without dipping into your wallet.
If you plan to stockpile Stir-Fried Water Spinach as a stamina food supply, scaling up your Water Spinach farm is straightforward.
Dedicate Paddy Fields: Plant Water Spinach in Paddy Fields to skip daily watering entirely. This saves both time and stamina, especially when managing a large number of plots.
Replant immediately: Water Spinach matures in 1 day. Harvest and replant every morning to maximize the number of cycles within the 28-day Summer season.
Build multiple cooking stations: Each Gas Stove or Campfire can only cook one dish at a time (57 seconds per Stir-Fried Water Spinach). If you are processing a large harvest, having 3 to 4 cooking stations running in parallel speeds things up significantly.
Use sprinklers on Farmland: If you are planting on regular Farmland instead of Paddy Fields, equip sprinklers to automate watering. Daily replanting already takes time; automated watering removes one extra chore from the loop.
Target Everlasting Seeds: Once you obtain Everlasting Water Spinach Seeds, the plant regrows automatically. This eliminates the replanting step and the 65 Coin seed cost per cycle, turning every harvest into pure material for cooking.
With 10 Paddy Field plots and Everlasting Seeds, you can produce 13 dishes per day (40 Water Spinach total, 3 per dish with 1 left over), each restoring 58 stamina. That is 580 stamina worth of food daily with zero ongoing cost.
Water Spinach is also used in the following recipe.
Recipe | Ingredients | Station | Time | Sell Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cabbage x1, Water Spinach x1 | 31s | +44 | 52 Coins |
Harvest Harmony is a seasonal recipe obtained from the Spring Festival Event. It combines 1 Cabbage and 1 Water Spinach for a quick 31-second cook. While its sell price (52 Coins) and stamina recovery (+44) are both lower than Stir-Fried Water Spinach, the faster cooking time and lower ingredient requirement make it a reasonable alternative when you have both crops available.
Beyond cooking, Water Spinach can be processed into Pickled Water Spinach at the Pickling Jar (requires a Salt Brick), separated into Vegetable Juice at the Separator (yields 2 per Water Spinach), or ground back into seeds at the Grinder. For a full breakdown of all Water Spinach uses, see the Water Spinach article.
Carry a few servings of Stir-Fried Water Spinach when heading out to explore or mine. The 58 stamina recovery per serving keeps you going without needing to return home.
Find the recipe chest early. Head southwest from the Aureleaf Kitchen and open every treasure chest you find in that area. Unlocking this recipe on your first or second day of Summer lets you start cooking immediately.
Pair Water Spinach farming with Cabbage to have ingredients for both Stir-Fried Water Spinach and Harvest Harmony.
If you do not need the stamina, sell the raw Water Spinach instead. At 24 Coins each (96 Coins for 4), the raw route earns more than the 81 Coin cooked dish.
During the Merchant Ship visits, selling raw Water Spinach at roughly double the standard price (around 48 Coins each) is significantly more profitable than cooking.