Cooked serpent meat can be obtained by placing Serpent meat in an Iron Cooking station over a lit Campfire. It takes 61 seconds to cook. After 121 seconds, it will turn to coal.
As Serpent stew provides more health and stamina, eating the meat is not ideal unless in excess of it.
The stew's constituent ingredients are easily obtainable, with Mushrooms able to be foraged from Meadows and Black Forests, while the Honey can be obtained from Beehives.
A player eating serpent meat may want to limit the amount of it they carry, as each one is much heavier than any other foods.