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With prepared meals your primary source of healing inThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, you’ve got plenty to remember about cooking. With cooking pots all over Hyrule (even in your pocket with the new Zonai devices) and a convenient recipe book built-in, keeping track of every recipe in Tears of the Kingdom has never been easier.
Meals will keep your hearts full enough to fight! In our recipe guide, we detail all recipes in Tears of the Kingdom, all the additional benefits from cooking, and offer some basic ingredients for all recipes in Tears of the Kingdom.
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This guide contains some spoilers for Tears of the Kingdom.
How To Cook In Tears Of The Kingdom
To cook in Tears of the Kingdom, you’ll simply need tohave Link hold a few ingredients(which you can select from the[+] Button inventorymenu, up to five at a time).
Once they’re in your hands,drop theminto acooking pot,Portable Potfrom one ofthe many Zonai dispensers, or even just anopen fire.
Cooked food replenishes more hearts than raw food, so it’s always helpful to have a handful of meals on hand when you’re out exploring Hyrule.
Cooking an ingredientin some way willdouble its restorative value, giving you double the healing for very minimal work.
Hearts and effects will always be shown on yourMaterials tab.
To makefull meals, you’ll need to head to a cooking pot or whip out one of your Portable Pots, as theseneed to be prepared. However, if you’re justroasting ingredients, you can do so on any source of fire,no utensils required.
Flash-grilled foods are helpful in the early game, as they never replenishtoomany hearts, but as you start to accrue more heart containers, you’ll find yourself needing meals before long.
Where To Find New Recipes
Recipes in Tears of the Kingdom are obtained in a number of ways, but one of the most visually obvious ones areat Stablesand occasionally ingeneral goods shops in the townsaround Hyrule.
Ineach Stableand in the local stores when you visit towns, you’ll see aposterwith a photo of aprepared meal, with one to fiveingredients listed below(typically something relativelylocalto the area).
But the good news is thatyou don’t need to memorize recipes, as the game will store a recipe for you after the first time you’ve made that dish.
you may then choose tocook by recipe after making the dish once, which can be a very easy shortcut if you’re preparing several meals at once.
How To Add Buffs To Meals And Elixirs
While regular cooked food in Tears of the Kingdom does replenish lost heart containers, you can also usemeals and elixirstoadd powerful buffsjust by using different ingredients in your base recipes.
You’ll often find ingredients around Hyrule that offerelemental resistance and boosts,additional attack or defense, or assistsurviving down in The Depths.
To include this buff in a recipe, simplyuse an ingredient that matches the buff. These are often pretty obvious in the name and appearance of each item.
When trying to add buffs to recipes in Tears of the Kingdom, you’ll need toadd an ingredient that incorporates the buffinto one of yourregular recipes.
For example, if you’ve gotChillshroom, cooking five of them will yield aChillyMushroom Skewerto offer heat resistance, while cooking fiveHylian Shroomwill yield only aregular Mushroom Skewer.
It’s thesame base ingredient, but withadditional effectsto yield the boosts you want.
Any effect added to an ingredient isshown in the top corner of the meal itselfon your Cooking tab.
What’s The Difference Between Meals And Elixirs?
Whilemealsin Tears of the Kingdom are made with thefood-based ingredientsyou find around Hyrule (fruits, mushrooms, meats, etc.),elixirs are made of bugs and monster parts.
And though they don’t use traditional ingredients,elixirs count toward your 100 percent completionwith the Tears of the Kingdom recipes.
To make an elixir, you’ll need abug with your intended effectand at least onemonster part, which are the Horns, Claws, and Guts dropped by monsters in combat.
The stronger the enemy that dropped the part, the stronger your elixir will be. You can also include multiples of the critters that grant your desired effect to strengthen said effect or the duration for which it lasts.
Don’t use critters with regular recipes!These will end up asDubious Food, so keepcritters exclusively for elixirs.
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Stambulb
Energizing
Instantly replenishes a portion of your stamina wheel (up to the limit of your maximum stamina).
Smotherwing Butterfly
Gloom Recovery
Un-breaks hearts lost to gloom (but does not refill them automatically without other ingredients).
Gloom Resist
Gives additional hearts of gloom resistance before gloom begins to damage your actual heart containers.
Dark Clump
Glow
Link emits a faint light that grows stronger with the effect.
Ironshell Crab
Ironshroom
Don’t try to cross effectsto grant two boosts at once - it will come out asDubious Food, wasting the potentially valuable ingredients with effects.
If it doesn’t end up Dubious Food, it will usually default to being just aregular mealto replenish hearts, without the intended bonus effects.
All Tears Of The Kingdom Recipes
Below, you’ll find every Tears of the Kingdom recipe, in itsmost basic form.
As mentioned above,adding ingredients with effects alters the recipeto offer those boosts. The recipes listed belowreplenish hearts, but by adding any ingredient that grants your intended effect, you’ll replenish heartsandhave the bonus effect.
Use these recipes as a baseand have fun with your culinary adventures!
How many heartseach meal regains will depend onhow many of each ingredient you usewhen cooking. Rarer ingredients yieldmore hearts when cooked, as doesusing more ingredientsin a dish, even if they’re the same ones more than once.
Cooking food typicallydoubles the heart replenishmentof if you’d eaten the ingredients raw, so the more hearts something replenishes raw, the more it’ll replenish when cooked.
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Any mushrooms
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Meat and Mushroom Skewer
Any meat
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Fish and Mushroom Skewer
Any fish
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Any fishand/orany crabs
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Four different kinds of fish
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Any fruit
Any plant
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Any nut
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Four different mushrooms
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Any crab
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Meat and Seafood Fry
Any seafood
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Prime Meat and Seafood Fry
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Gourmet Meat and Seafood Fry
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Any mushroom
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Any seafood(except Porgies or Salmons)
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Fruit and Mushroom Mix
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Four different fruits
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Any vegetable
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Fried Egg and Rice
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Meat and Rice Bowl
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Any fruit(exceptApples)
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Any materials that are incompatible with one another
Monster parts, when used with regular food ingredient
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Rock-Hard Food
Non-food materials (Wood, gemstones, etc.)
Yourrecipes will automatically be loggedin a cookbook of sorts. On yourMaterials tab, hitthe X Buttonto open your recipe booklet.
You can create variants of the basic recipes, and they’ll be logged in here as well.
Roasted And Frozen Foods
In Tears of the Kingdom, you canpermanently alter ingredientsbyroasting themon a fire, or bydropping them in a cold environment.
Whilefrozen foods offer heat resistancefor a short time,roasted foods double the hearts replenishedby the ingredient if you’d eaten it raw.
You may find items that are already roasted or frozen, but you can alsomake themby dropping ingredients into eitheropen fireor intoextreme cold(like water in cold regions of Hyrule).
Below are all ingredients that can be either roasted or frozen in Tears of the Kingdom.You only need the one ingredientfor these meals.
Roastingingredients that normally grant an effectwillremove the effect, simplyreplenishing heartsinstead. It’s best to save those for recipes unless you’re desperate for food.
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Frozen River Snail
Anything not listed above will not provide a new dish when roasted or frozen.Other ingredientsthat are roasted willburn upor simplynot change in the cold.
