Zelda: Breath of the Wild Recipes and Cooking – How to Cook, Cooking Recipes List

Food and cooking recipes are a big part of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The food you cook can increase Link’s resistance to the climate, restore health and more. This article covers how to cook in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with cooking tips and recipes so you learn when and where to cook, as well as all the different ways you can cook food. We’ve got a growing list of all the cooking recipes in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that increase resistance to cold or resistance to heat, increase movement speed or stamina and more. However, as the game is brand new our food recipe list for Breath of the Wild will start small and grow daily as we add more and more cooking recipes to the table at the bottom of the article. For now, let’s show you how to cook in Zelda: Breath of the Wild!

How to Cook

Cooking in Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a fairly easy task. All you need is an open flame and a pot. Most camp sites and villages have at least one pot, but in many instances you will have to provide your own flame. We’ve already covered a number of ways you can get a flame started, but if you have a torch on hand you can use light it on any flame source, then transfer that to the pot by essentially “attacking” the pot with the torch.

Once you have a pot and a flame under it, stand nearby and access your materials inventory. Press X to start “holding” items, then select the items you wish to cook with. Ideally you want at least one meat item to serve as a base for the food, then whatever you want to season that meat with. For example, you may select Raw Meat as your base item, then season it with a Swift Carrot or Rock Salt.

Open Flame Cooking

Some dishes can only be made using an open flame. For example, the Seared Steak is made by dropping Raw Meat on top of an open flame (campfire). The meat will catch fire and after a short time it will change into Seared Steak. Any item that is listed as being cooked over an open flame, you cannot use a pot like you would for normal food items. Simply drop the item on or very close to a campfire and wait for it to burn and change.

Alternate Recipes

Of course your recipes don’t always have to include meat. You can make simple food items by just cooking an Apple by itself. Doing this results in a Simmered Fruit with a pot, or a Baked Apple on an open flame. Both of these results increase the number of hearts that will be replenished compared to an uncooked Apple.

You can check out our continually evolving recipe list below to see what results you get from various recipes. Some food can be very useful, such as the Spicy Meat and Seafood Fry. Keep in mind, there are multiple recipes for many of the foods in the game. We may have one recipe listed, but there could easily be five or six recipes that all end up with the same final item. However, the potency may be higher or lower depending on the ingredients used.

In many instances cooking with similar ingredients will net the same or a similar dish. For example, the Fish and Mushroom Skewer can be made with almost any bass and mushroom combination. Using a Hylian Shroom and Hyrule Bass gives you a version that refills three hearts. You can cook with a Zapshroom and Staminoka Bass and you’ll get the exact same dish, but add Fleet-Lotus Seeds and you get a version of the dish that restores seven hearts instead of three.

Adding additional ingredients can change the final dish, but you’ll get even better results if you use higher quality foods. Take the Fish and Mushroom Skewer example. The Hylian Shroom and Hyrule Bass are the most common mushroom and fish found in Hyrule. You get the same dish when you use the more rare Zapshroom and Staminoka Bass, but add Fleet-Lotus Seeds and it becomes a much better dish. Now add Fleet-Lotus Seeds to the Hylian Shroom and Hyrule Bass, and instead of a seven heart version of the Fish and Mushroom Skewer, you get the Hasty Fish and Mushroom Skewer that only restores four hearts, but gives you a temporary movement speed increase as well.

Be careful when adding ingredients as it’s not always beneficial to the final dish. For instance, cooking a Hylian Shroom with Raw Meat gives you a Meat and Mushroom Skewer that restores six hearts. However, add an Apple to that recipe and while you still get a Meat and Mushroom Skewer, it only restores four hearts. Generally speaking, a Meat and Mushroom Skewer doesn’t need fruit so adding a random Apple doesn’t help. In addition, adding multiple ingredients that have beneficial effects (such as increased stamina or stealth), you’ll only get one of the effects or they might even cancel each other out completely. Pay close attention and try to add only one boosting effect ingredient to your meals.

Powerful Ingredients

Cooking with a Fairy will add considerably to almost any meal you want to make. Don’t worry, you won’t actually cook the Fairy, but she will hover around the pot and enhance the meal for you. For instance, Fried Egg and Rice made with Hyliran Rice and a Bird Egg usually restores four hearts. However, add a Fairy to that recipe and it restores 14 hearts. You can find Fairies around a number of mountain ponds in Hyrule.

Using any “hearty” ingredient in your recipe almost always results in a dish that will fully restore all of Link’s hearts and add bonus hearts for a short time. For example, a Bird Egg by itself creates an Omelet that restores two hearts, but add a Hearty Truffle to the mix and you get a Hearty Omelet that fully restores all hearts and increases your maximum hearts by one for a short time. Use a Hearty Radish instead of a Hearty Truffle and the number of additional hearts increases to three.

In many cases, adding more seasoning to your recipe will increase the effectiveness of the meal, but it can also change the dish completely depending on the ingredients used. It may extend the duration or make the food item more potent. Keep in mind, mixing random items that don’t go well together will have an adverse effect that could result in meals that do virtually nothing aside from taste bad. For example, mixing insects with other food items will almost always offer poor results.

Food Recipe Lists

Stamina Recipes

Cold or Heat Resistance Recipes

Attack or Defense Boost Recipes

Movement Speed Recipes

Increase Maximum Hearts Recipes

All Recipes

Recipe Tables Last Updated: March 9, 2017

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