The Best List Of Recipes And Elixirs For Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom

Much like the original game before it, anybody who has played The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will know just how essential cooking is to that part of the experience. The same can absolutely be said for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, which doubles down on the mechanics that it’s predecessor had to offer something truly special.

Cooking is something that you really shouldn’t ignore in Tears of the Kingdom. Not only can it help to recover much more hearts than usual, it can be used to make meals that sell for a pretty penny (or rupee) at shops as well as give Link all kinds of resistances or buffs to the elements.

Through completion of quests and just spying recipes on posters throughout Hyrule, you’ll learn recipes that will no doubt help you on your quest. But we’re here to give you some of the best recipes that’ll help you on your journey in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

You can cook at any pots that are placed throughout the world of Tears of the Kingdom.  You can even use wood and a flint to create a temporary, more flimsy cooking station to cook individual ingredients. You can even use one of the new Zonai Devices, a temporary cooking pot, to whip up a meal in a bind.

Simply put, there’s a few principles to go about when creating a meal with the cooking system:

1. 1. Cooking food ingredients that already recover hearts will create something that heals even more hearts
   2. Adding an ingredient with a property (for example, a mushroom that improves stamina when cooked) will add that property to your dish
   3. Mixing a critter (a lizard, a frog, an insect) with a monster part will create an elixir

SOME OF THE BEST RECIPES FOR FOOD AND ELIXIRS IN ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM

• Spicy Meat and Seafood Fry
  • Provides Link with some much-needed cold resistance
    • Hyrule Bass
    • Spicy Pepper
    • Raw Meat

• Energizing Meat and Mushroom Skewer
  • Restores Link’s stamina. Perfect as a mid-climbing snack
  • For this recipe, the more Stamella shroom you use, the greater the stamina recovery
    • Any raw meat
    • Stamella Shrooms

• Tough Mushroom Skewer
  • A recipe that provides Link with greater defense and recovers health too
  • The more ironshrooms, the better grade of the defense buff
    • Ironshrooms

• Fried Wild Greens
  • A relatively cheap recipe to make that often recovers a lot of hearts
  • Using five of the same herb is often most beneficial, offering up to ten hearts recovery
    • Any combination of herbs and flowers will make this dish
    • Five Hyrule Herbs will create a dish that recovers ten hearts
    • Five Silent Princesses will create a dish that recovers ten hearts and offers ten minutes of the highest stealth improvement.

• Cheesy Tomato
  • A light health recovery dish
    • Hateno Cheese
    • Hylian Rice
    • Hylian Tomato

• Sunny Veggie Rice Balls
  • This recipe allows Link to recover any hearts he’s lost to gloom, helping you to explore the depths for longer.
  • Increase the sundelion ratio to improve the gloom recovery rate. Otherwise, the more rice you have, the more hearts the dish will recover.
    • Hylian Rice
    • Sundelions

• Bright Fish Skewer
  • A really simple recipe that provides healing effects and a glowing effect
    • Glowing Cave Fish (the more, the better the effects)

• Enduring Elixir
  • Restores stamina AND temporarily extends your stamina wheel.
    • Tireless Frog
    • Any creature part (a wing, a horn, an eyeball)

• Hasty Elixir
  • Increases Link’s movement speed
    • Hot-Footed Frog
    • Any creature part (a wing, a horn, an eyeball)

• Bright Elixir
  • Provides Link with an illuminating effect, lighting up his surroundings.
    • Deep Firefly
    • Any creature part (a wing, a horn, an eyeball)

Each dish you create will have a name that indicates what it does. Look for these descriptors in your culinary creations to work out what they do.

• A BRIGHT meal provides a glowing effect to Link, perfect for exploring the depths
• A SUNNY meal provides an anti-gloom effect, allowing Link to reclaim hearts lost to gloom without having to visit the surface or a lightroot
• A SPICY meal provides cold resistance
• A HEARTY meal provides greater health restoration
• An ENERGIZING meal provides stamina restoration
• An ELECTRO meal provides resistance to electricity and shock
• A MIGHTY meal provides increased attack power
• A CHILLY meal provides greater heat resistance
• An ENDURING meal provides extra stamina wheels (they’re yellow versions of the stamina wheel, and disappear once used)
• A FIREPROOF meal provides resistance to flame, meaning that Link won’t burst into flames if he’s in an extremely hot area
• A HASTY meal provides an increase to movement speed
• A SNEAKY meal provides an increase to your stealth capability
• A TOUGH meal provides improved defense