Bedlam's Dirty Visual Guide to Njerpez RecipesFlatbread 
The mod introduces many new uses for humble flatbread... It's the same trusty flatbread you love, but bigger, and you can add some seeds to make it more crunchy and nutritious. It is eaten by itself, or used to prepare bean tacos, and to ferment a special Kvass beverage (rye variety only). Can be made with a campfire.
Korovai loaf 
The Loaf of Sunshine... Milk, a pot, and an oven are required. This bread has a deep ritual significance for the Njerpez people, and it can be very fancy, a work of art, usually prepared to welcome someone of importance, weddings, etc. Korovai evokes the sun, and at the same time, eternity. But with a pot and an oven, less fancy versions of the same tasty loaf can happily be produced for daily nourishment...
Salted biscuits 
Dry biscuits made from Korovai loaf. They are also known as "sukhari", "traveller's biscuit" or "rusk". Salt is required. Expensive to make, but once dried will last forever without spoiling... Archeologists these days are still finding (edible) egyptian and roman sailor-biscuits made using the same basic twice-baked bread technique.
Bean taco
Make those with broad beans and any flatbreads. No oven needed. How did the Njerpez obtain this signature recipe from the Mexicans? Answer is simple: Stealing.
Stuffed oven buns
With flour and an oven, you can treat yourself to these. Twist: Njerp pierogi-buns are stuffed with ALREADY ROASTED ingredients, this is their pecularity in real life and here in the mod too. That's what possibly makes them the most versatile recipe in the game. Very useful, and you can use up those bland or stale roast cuts, getting delicious buns back if your cooking skill serves!
Goulash stew
A very thick, meaty stew, usually dark brown.Takes a long time to stew, but steppe chieftain's nutritious favorite. Veggies and smoked cuts, and spices, stewed together. Along with Okroshka soup, it's a champ at lasting without spoiling for a long time, ten days give or take. Longer in a cool cellar. Pot and oven required.
Porridge (4 new varieties) 
Now porridge is worthwhile to make, filling and convenient, but it's still the same good porridge.
Shishkebabs
Make kebab sticks from branches (Lumber menu under Make), then use any raw cuts of meat, fats, and herbs to complete your delicious kebab. Lasts the same as any other roast meat, but slightly more convenient and nutritious if enough herbs are used. According to Njerpez traditions, you're not a real man if you can't make proper "shashlyk" (kebabs) to blow your guest's minds on the weekend. Techniques for soaking the meats in the right mix of herbs and spices are a close-guarded family secret, each Njerpez family claiming theirs is the best kebab technique... In the game, these offer you the easiest and fastest way to efficiently utilize leaves from hemp, nettle, milkweed etc. in your cookery.
Hunter's Borsch
A hearty meat and root veggie soup, that gives you options on top of options in game. Based on stock made with dried meat or fish, add root vegetables, seasoning... Can be very nutrient rich, depending on ingredients used.
Pelmeni soup
Njerpez Pelmeni are doughy dumplings, filled with minced meats or fish. They are boiled and make for an excellent soup. Slightly more long-lasting than other meat soups. Requires flour...
Salo
Delicious, salt-cured animal fat, the staple of Njerpez cuisine as it's addable to most veggie soups as thickener, used in frying, and is an excellent non-perishable snack by itself. The best-made Salo tastes mildly chewy, smooth and rich in salty flavour. It melts on the tongue almost like icecream, and has a bouquet of tastes from the berries and herbal sesonings used to cure it. Lasts for well over a year properly stored in a cellar...
Whole-cooked fish
This is a method of prepping raw fish on a campfire, without gutting the fish first. The fish is wrapped in herbs so it will not burn, and then left on top of the smoldering coals to slowly boil in its own juices. The result is scary tasty... In URW the herbs add to nutritousness and the recipe is faster than generic roast fish. Lasts the same as any roasted fish. Tip: Use for large fish like salmon, pike - and try to put other fish away from your inventory temporarily when making this - due to how the game works, it will use the first fish it finds in your inventory and you may not want to bother whole-cooking tiny roach-fishes!
Fish soup ("Uha")
Called "Uha" by the Njerpez, it's a basic fisherman's soup. Good for preparing many smaller fish. The soup lasts about a day longer than generic roasted fish.
Roasted turnip
Njerpez people often say "oh that's simpler than roast turnip" when they want to say that something is stupidly easy. In recognition that you don't have to be an Owl Tribe scientist to enjoy turnips roasted in the embers, we have this recipe. It's simple but actually quite good! More nutrient-rich per pound than uncooked turnip, worth making for sure. Also more convenient to eat than individual turnips. Lasts for 4 days or so, once cooked.
Mash-turnip
Using milk, roast turnips, and optionally smoked cuts and herbs, you can make this delicious filling. Eaten by itself or used as stuffing for oven buns. Lasts a whole 2 days longer than roast turnip before going stale. Can be incredibly nutritious with the right ingredients.
Kvass drink
Gives a whole new life to Rye bread. Why do people plant rye, if barley is 20% more nutritious? Now you know why - because KVASS! This drink is made by fermenting rye flatbreads with herbs and berries. Nutritious, delicious, lasts for a very long time, and is the keystone ingredient for Okroshka soup. It has a fizzy, tangy taste that is very refreshing and helps with thirst reduction. Despite looking like beer from a distance, it tastes nothing like it, apart from perhaps being just as addictive... A Njerpez warrior's highest pleasure: to come back home alive from that Kaumo village raid, sit with the wife on the steps of the house and sip cold, fresh-from-cellar Kvass... Interestingly, in real life the best kvass requires STALE rye bread. I left this out of the mod, but if you're hardcore, you can edit it back in. Then you can set out rye breads in the summer and eagerly check up on them to see if they went stale yet...
Okroshka soup 
Unique "summertime" cold soup, Njerpez version of the Green Soup, but uses Kvass instead of water, making it more refreshing, tasty, and longer lasting than most soups you can make. Also incredibly fast to prepare if you already have ingredients ready. Add salty toppings to taste... Try adding salty biscuit crumbs or salt meats for max authenticity and nourishment. As to how it tastes, the soup's closest relation outside the game is perhaps japanese Miso-soup, though Okroshka is more fresh and green-tasting, and of course it's always served ice-cold!
Pea soup
Good old pea soup, optimized for more nutrition, and optionally you can add some Salo to thicken it. Lasts about 5 days, like most soups in the mod.
Veggie soup 
A light vegetable soup, except this version is more flexible than others you tried. Make sure to utilize those milkweed roots and lakereeds (counts as veggie). One Njerp trick is starting the soup with 1 bear pipe root, then adding all the other vegetables you want, like turnip or beans, or roots. The resulting soup will refresh you (tiredness) and nourish you (hunger) at the same time.
Mushroom soupProvides decent nutrition now, no longer useless like it was in vanilla incarnations of itself. Soup will be poisonous if the mushrooms were poisonous. You can boil the mushrooms first and then make soup to get rid of the poison for most mushrooms.
Dried mushrooms, Dried berriesYou can sun-dry these now in the summer for preservation in large batches, with a board and some patience. Lasts more than a year in a cellar. Careful with poisonous mushrooms, they will still be poisonous after you dry them. For most mushrooms the solution is to boil them first to remove the poison, then you can dry them for preservation. Extremely poisonous ones like the Sand Mushroom will be deadly even when boiled, you best know what mushrooms you're using!
Bonus New Recipes now included in V2.0 of the mod (needs URW 3.87+) Toasted seeds 
Latest versions of URW introduce a whole new cooking method, ember-roasting where you first make those glowing embers after a big fire burns out, and then you can cook some unique things. This is the first recipe in the mod that uses the new method, so now you can utilize hemp, clayweed,and other nutrient-rich seeds that normally require an oven to cook, even without having one in the wilderness. You do have to micromanage big fires and ensure the embers glow for long enough, so an oven is still way more convenient. The toasty seeds are a great travel snack, and are not going to spoil too. You can even toast Turnip Seeds, though those are tiny, annoying and barely give any nutrition when eaten.
Meat Aspic 
Aspic is tasty meat jelli, made from animal bones by cooking them for a very long time, optionally with actual meat also cooked into it, so the jello has some nice "substance" to it too when you enjoy it. You know how your URW dogs love to gnaw on those bones and seem to get nutrients out of them? Well! I did tests on it for the mod, and the bones do actually have proper nutrients in them. URW is truly an amazing universe of possibilities, now we can actually have this traditional recipe work in-game in a very natural way with close to the same proportions of ingredients as would be required in real life. It's a moderately filling dish, that tends to spoil rather quickly, a couple days and it's rancid, so be sure to enjoy it before that happens. Bet you never thought you'd be eating bones in URW, like Belka & Strelka!
Crates Monsieur
Morish freshly made wooden crates under natural pine sap sauce.... I kid, of course, cheftains. Not edible, these are just utility containers that I'm using in my game a lot to be able to grind flour into. Decided to include them for you, you'll find them in the Make menu as usual, and it's up to you if you need/want to use them. Purely for convenience, the crate stays put near your flour grinding spot and gets used for weeks until full. Each of the crates can potentially hold a massive amount (120lbs) of flour for you, getting rid of the need to hunt all over your base for "where the heck did I drop those empty grain bags yesterday?" and organizing your vast flour stores neatly.
Pro tip: Any time your recipe includes the option to add "Seasoning", not only can you add leaves and flowers, but you can also press "TAB", to switch the selector to your beverages section. From there, select your pre-made Bear Pipe beverage or something like that, which adds a small amount of it to the dish as liquid seasoning. Now the soup you're making will give Bear Pipe buffs when consumed. Cool hidden trick that wouldn't be obvious unless you know this is possible. Beverages are made by simply boiling any plants you want to use in a pot and can be stored in cups or bowls.
Topic: Njerpez Cookery Mod v2.0 - Dec 2025 Update! (Read 51191 times)