Zelda Breath Of The Wild Recipe Database

In this new Hyrule, you’ll have to gain health by cooking a nice meal, hunting and gathering, or brewing up a nice elixir. But, in order to reap the most benefits from your cooking sessions, it’s helpful to have a recipe book to hand.

However, the game doesn’t actually have one to help you out. Luckily for you, we’ve spent hours at the cooking pot working out the various combinations to get you the best dinners. We’ve trawled the rivers, foraged in the forest and killed a lot of critters to work out how to make the best meals and elixirs.

In order to actually cook anything you’ll need to find a cooking pot in the game. There’s one by the Old Man in the Great Plateau, but you’ll also find them at stables, towns and some enemy outposts throughout the game.

How To Make The Best Recipes

Once you’ve found one, you’ll have to go into your inventory and hold any items that you want to combine into a meal. Then back out into the main world and stand by the cooking pot. You’ll be prompted to “tap A to cook”, so just stand back and watch those items bubble into a meal.

You can always check your cooked dish for the recipe in case you want a quick reminder of how you made it too.

There are different types of meals and Elixirs. Spicy ones will protect you from the cold, mighty ones will give you extra attack strength and energising ones will restore your stamina, for example. Just remember that you can only have one effect active at any one time, meaning if you eat a spicy meal straight after a mighty one, you’ll lose that attack bonus.

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So when cooking remember not to mix in a stamella shroom with an endura shroom, because you’ll utilise neither of their stat boosting effects. Instead, mix several elements with the same boost type for maximum effect. For example, a stamella mushroom + staminoka bass = energising steamed fish dish with a stamina and health boost combo.

If you don’t accidentally follow a recipe, you’ll end up with what’s known as “dubious food”. It’ll still give you one heart, but Link won’t like it.

If you’re looking for an item to boost a specific element of Link’s attributes, the best way to do this is to create an Elixir. While a meal will boost both your health and your stats, Elixir will either do one or the other.

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Here’s a list of all the Elixirs you can make and the ingredients you’ll need to make them, but they’re basically monster parts + a critter of some kind.

Recipes to unlock in the game, all giving you a variety of health-boosting effects. If you add in items with matching stat boosting effects, as we’ve outlined before, you will add a prefix to these meals for additional effects.

Sam is the UK Gaming Editor at . She's been addicted to games since she first got her paws on a GameBoy and hasn't looked back.

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Here’s a list of all the Elixirs you can make and the ingredients you’ll need to make them, but they’re basically monster parts + a critter of some kind.

Recipes to unlock in the game, all giving you a variety of health-boosting effects. If you add in items with matching stat boosting effects, as we’ve outlined before, you will add a prefix to these meals for additional effects.

Sam is the UK Gaming Editor at . She's been addicted to games since she first got her paws on a GameBoy and hasn't looked back.

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