Zelda Recipes List

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.

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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.Cooking in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom isn't only a great pastime for Link - it's a crucial way to restore health and gain useful effects. Without knowing his way around a cooking pot, Link won't be able to save Zelda and Hyrule.

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Luckily, this guide will explain every recipe in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, so you can fill out the entire cookbook. There are over 200 recipes, and they can also be adapted to give different effects or more heart recovery.

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The first thing you'll need to know is how to access Link's cookbook. This is surprisingly unclear, as it can't be found in any of the ordinary menu sections in the game.

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Instead, you'll need to go to the Food tab of the inventory. With any food item selected, press X to 'Check Recipe.' This will open the whole list, allowing you to scroll backwards and forwards to see anything you've previously cooked.

From here you can press Y to see the different ingredients you've used, if you've made the recipe more than once in different ways.

Recipes themselves don't have particular effects in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. They'll restore a variable amount of hearts, but in order to get bonus effects like faster movement speed or extra stamina, you'll need to use specific ingredients.

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Don't forget that using different ingredients can give these recipes specific effects. You can also often add other ingredients to make them more effective and restore more hearts. The ingredients listed here are simply the most basic recipe available for that specific entry in the cookbook.

Any Fish, Hateno Cheese, Hylian Rice, Goat Butter, and Rock Salt. (The recipe description says Mushrooms can be used, but this results in Mushroom Risotto.)

Following these, there are several recipes that need to be cooked by placing an ingredient directly onto the fire, rather than in a cooking pot:

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Next up, we have a few recipes which are created through unusual methods. Most of these are frozen, for which you can either drop them on the ground in a very cold environment, or use a weapon or arrow with an ice effect.

Frozen food doesn't restore many hearts but it will give Link heat resistance, which is useful for exploring hot areas of the map:

With so many recipes in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, there's no one right answer to which is the best. If you're just starting out, you may not want to waste ingredients by making meals that restore dozens of hearts, since you won't have that many to fill. Plus, almost every recipe can be adapted with effects such as Energizing or Chilly to give additional benefits. So experiment, and make sure that you have a variety of meals on you at all times to deal with different situations.

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Having said that, some uses of ingredients are more efficient than others. Roasting food on the fire usually isn't as restorative as cooking it in a cooking pot. Of course, pots can only be found in certain locations or using a Zonai orb, so in a pinch a fire may be your only option, and roasting is typically more effective than eating ingredients raw.

If you're looking for max heart recovery, and you have the ingredients for a sweet treat, crepes are much more effective than cakes and pies. Don't forget to add Courser Bee Honey or a Wildberry, which massively increase the return without being much more of an investment. Both restore 10 hearts, while a plain crepe only restores five.

In fact, Courser Bee Honey is one of the best additives to any recipe, including the Glazed recipes, which can be made with otherwise simple ingredients such as mushrooms and meat. Make sure to keep an eye out for it when in forested areas.

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Otherwise, your best bet for creating the best recipes in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is seeking out rare ingredients. Hearty Radishes and Big Hearty Radishes, for instance, appear to only grow on Sky Islands, but create very effective recipes that will overfill your hearts. You can also complete the side quest Teach Me A Lesson in Hateno Village to gain access to a plot of land that will grow vegetables for you, which is great for getting more of these rare ingredients.