Lentils and Chestnuts

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Lentils and Chestnuts is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Olive Oil ×1 — which resolves to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 3 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 644 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 1 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Fire Shard and 1 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 11 intermediate up to the Lv 17 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

5 of the 6 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Olive Oil has the widest use: 19 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.