Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Recipes List And Cookbook

Tears of the Kingdom recipes are there to keep Link happy and healthy in any number of difficult situations. The most basic of recipes in his cookbook restore a few hearts in Link’s health meter, but if you add the right ingredients in the right amount, you can buff Link's defense, pump up his attack, and even keep him safe in harsh weather.

We'll be updating this list as we find more, but for now, here's what you can get cooking with and how to get started.

How to cook in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

You have two options for cooking in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and while the Great Sky Island has two stewards who teach you the basics, it’s easy to miss them if you aren’t exploring every inch of the island.

The crudest and least effective cooking method is dropping food items in front of an open fire. That can be a campfire made using a bundle of wood or the raging inferno that used to be a field until you accidentally dropped your lit torch on the ground. After your ingredients bask in the fire’s warmth for a few seconds, they turn into a roasted variant of themselves--roasted meat, roasted apples, and so on.

Roasted items only restore a small amount of health, and you get few, if any, benefits from the ingredients’ unique properties.

The better way to cook is using a cooking pot. These pots are conveniently scattered across Hyrule and the skies, though you’re guaranteed to find one at every stable as well. Using a cooking pot is the only way to combine ingredients and the only way to brew elixirs from monster parts and critters.

To use a cooking pot, open your inventory, and select the ingredients you want to use. You can add up to five, and how much you add may determine the effect you get. Cooking one Rushroom provides a low-level speed boost that lasts for a short time, for example, but if you cook three, the boost lasts for longer. Rarer ingredients tend to offer stronger effects as well. The Staminoka Bass gives you a better stamina buff than the Stamella Mushroom or the stamina onion bulb.

Any successful recipe will add itself to your recipe log, which you can check by pressing “A” to select an ingredient and choosing "Check Recipe."

All Tears of the Kingdom recipes

Recipe	Ingredients	Effects
Roasted Apple	Apple (open fire)	Recover 3/4s of a heart
Meat Skewer	Meat, any fruit	Recovers health. Add more for greater amount and different types of fruit for different effects (e.g. Mighty Banana for attack buff)
Energizing Steamed Mushroom	1 Skyshroom, 1 Stambulb	Recovers 1 1/2 hearts and a small portion of stamina
Fish Skewer	Ancient Arowana	Recovers two hearts
Hasty Mushroom Skewer	Rushroom	Recovers 1 heart and buffs speed for 1 minute. Add more Rushrooms for greater effect
Toasted Skyshroom	1 Skyshroom (open fire)	Recovers half a heart
Mushroom Skewer	Any mushroom	Recovers health. Add more for greater effect, and different types for added buffs (e.g. Ironshroom for defense buff)
Meat and Mushroom Skewer	Any meat, any mushroom	Recovers health. Add more for greater effect, and different types for added buffs (e.g. Rushroom for speed buff)
Steamed Mushroom	Mushroom, any herb	Basic recipe recovers health. Can take on added effects with different types of mushroom and herb
Sauteed Peppers	2 pepper	Recovers health, protects against harsh cold
Fried Wild Greens	2 of any herb	Recovers health. Add more herbs to recover more health
Crab Stir-Fry	1 Crab, 1 Goron Spice	Recovers 2 hearts and a small amount of stamina
Salt-Grilled Mushroom	1 Rock Salt, at least 1 Mushroom	Recovers 2 hearts. Can have different effects depending on the mushrooms used (e.g. Stamella Shroom will restore hearts and stamina)
Fragrant Mushroom Saute	1 Goron Spice, at least 1 Mushroom	Recovers health. Can have different effects depending on the mushrooms used
Hearty Fried Wild Greens	Hearty Radish or any "Hearty" ingredient, any herb or flower	Gives Link extra hearts beyond his maximum capacity. Add more ingredients for more bonus hearts
Omelet	1 Bird Egg	Restores health
Mushroom Omelet	Goat Butter, Bird Egg, Rock Salt, any veggie, herb, or flower	Restores health
Vegetable Curry	Pumpkin or carrot, Goron Spice, Hylian Rice	Recovers health. Boosts defense if you use pumpkin or provides extra stamina if you use carrot
Rice Balls	Hylian Rice	Restores health
Veggie Rice Balls	Hylian Rice, any herb, flower, or veggie	Restores health and provides bonus effects depending on the herb or veggie used
Seafood Skewer	Any crab or snail	Restores health and provides buffs depending on the seafood used
Fish and Mushroom Skewer	Any fish, any mushroom	Restores health and provides buffs depending on the mushroom used
Seafood Rice Balls	Any fish, Hylian Rice	Restores health and provides buffs depending on the fish used

If you're still getting started in your Hylian adventure, check out our Tears of the Kingdom beginner's guide for some handy tips. Or find all of our Tears of the Kingdom guides here.