You should put Link’s culinary skills to the test the best recipes in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Instead of guzzling down 25 apples to heal yourself (guilty as charged), it will make a difference if you have a few recipes in mind before you head out into the world when faced with the environments and dangers out there.
To keep your stomach full and your immune system in check, we have the best recipes inside Tears of the Kingdom. Remember that while you can only have one meal at a time, pairing it with the best armor and weapons will make it all come together nicely.
The best recipes in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
At a glance, here are the best food recipes in it Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom:
- Spicy pepper steak
- Sunny Vegetarian Porridge
- Hylian Tomato Pizza
- Sustainable fried wild vegetables
- Porgy Meuniere
- Meaty rice balls bite
- Refrain from stewed fruit
- Apple pie
- vegetarian curry
In the same way as the best elixirs, there are dozens of food recipes to discover and experiment with Tears of the Kingdom. Depending on the situation you’re in, you may need to prioritize one effect over another – if you’re heading to Death Mountain, cold resistance meals won’t make a difference.
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As such, it’s important to remember that cooking with basic ingredients and materials (those that don’t explicitly state an effect in their description) will be a normal meal. If there’s room to add at least one extra ingredient, you can play around with effects of other materials they have there.
Remember that both the duration of the effect and the quality of the ingredients affect the final result. You can use dragon materials, namely dragon horns, to get a 30 minute timer on a buff for example, while opting for Prime Raw Meat instead of the regular type to increase the number of hearts you recover.
Last but not least, keep an eye out for Blood Moons, as you get a critical bonus to a meal if you cook during a meal between 11:30 PM and midnight. For everything else, the portable pot comes in handy.
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How to make spicy pepper steak
- Recipe ingredients: Any meat and at least one spicy pepper
- Effect: grants cold resistance
There are several ways to get cold resistance Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. But if you want a quick fix, prepping some meals with this recipe before venturing to the nearest icy mountain will help immensely.
Spicy peppers are pretty easy to come by, so if you can pair a handful of them with meat, go for it. For example, I used one raw meat with four spicy peppers and got a 10:30 minute buff against cold temperatures, which is pretty decent.
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This is how you make Sunny Veggie Porridge
- Recipe ingredients: Any herb, hylian rice, fresh milk and a sunflower.
- Effect: Replenishes gloom-ridden hearts.
You shouldn’t underestimate the power of meals to resist gloom. That said, there are situations where you inevitably end up in danger and lose a few hearts to gloom.
Don’t worry, this recipe will replenish five hearts, as well as three extra hearts affected by gloom. If you’re curious about where to find the ingredients for it, our “Gloom-borne Illness” quest page has the details, as you’ll need to prepare the dish to finish it.
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How to make Hylian Tomato Pizza
- Recipe ingredients: Hateno cheese, hylian tomato, rock salt and tabantha wheat.
- Effect: Supplements health and can be combined with other ingredients for different effects.
Did you know you can make pizza in it? Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom? Link may witness horrors unspeakable, but there’s nothing a pizza out of the oven can’t help.
By default, eating a Hylian Tomato Pizza only fills hearts. That said, there’s room for at least one ingredient that a specific buff can add – endura carrots to add temporary stamina, sunflowers to heal gloomy hearts, and so on.
You can find tabantha wheat by mowing the grass with a pointed weapon at the Tabantha Frontier, south of Rito Village. As for Hateno cheese, go to Hateno Village and towards Lake Sumac. On the boardwalk at the coordinates (3633, -2049, 0175)can you start with the “A letter to Koyinquest, which culminates in Hateno cheese becoming available to purchase.
How to Make Enduring Fried Wild Greens
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- Recipe ingredients: The basic ingredient consists of each herb.
- Effect: Replenishes stamina, in addition to health.
Fried wild vegetables are quite common. You can throw a few hylian herbs or any other kind into a cooking pot and get a dish out of it.
That said, this Enduring Fried Wild Greens will replenish a lot of hearts while also temporarily increasing your max stamina. I used two raw meats, two hylian herbs and an endura root. This restores 12 hearts and gives you almost half of an extra stamina wheel, which runs out once it’s used up.
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How to make Porgy Meuniere
- Recipe ingredients: Tabantha wheat, goat butter and at least one porgy.
- Effect: Replenishes hearts and increases attack for about 3:00 minutes.
We’re getting excited about this one. If you’ve been hoarding porgy fish (which can be found around Faron Sea and the Necluda Sea), combine them with tabantha wheat and goat butter for a strong meal that also boosts attack for about 3:00 minutes, depending on the amounts you use .
If you want a specific place, the Komo Shoreline Cave at the coordinates (0490, -3832, 0010), located southwest of the Horse God Bridge south of the Faron region, has a few swimming in it. Don’t forget you can electrocute the water to catch them easily.
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How to make chewy meaty rice balls
- Recipe ingredients: The basic ingredients are any meat and at least one hylian rice.
- Effect: Gives attack in cold weather.
To make Biting Meaty Rice Balls, I cooked one hylian rice, one raw meat, and two ice fruits. This gave me a cold weather fit for 3:30 minutes. Similar to the Frostbite armor, Link’s melee attacks deal cold damage in cold weather areas.
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How to make Warding stewed fruit
- Recipe ingredients: Dark lump and fruit.
- Effect: Gives resistance to gloom.
If you’re going into the depths to unlock Autobuild or search for the miner’s armor, it’s best to be prepared. Fruits are quite common in Hyrule, so this recipe won’t prove difficult.
As an example, I mixed a dark clump with four hylian tomatoes for a total of 4:30 minutes of gloom. Using three tomatoes instead gave me 4:00 minutes as a reference.
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How to make apple pie
- Recipe ingredients: Tabantha wheat, cane sugar, goat butter and of course an apple.
- Effect: Supplements health and can be combined with other ingredients for different effects.
By default, eating an apple pie only fills hearts. That said, there’s room for at least one ingredient that a specific buff can add – endura carrots to add temporary stamina, sunflowers to heal gloomy hearts, and so on. Plus, it looks delicious on its own.
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How to make vegetable curry
- Recipe ingredients: A carrot or pumpkin, as well as hylian rice and goron spices.
- Effect: Replenishes health and gives a defense boost or a rush effect, depending on the ingredient you use.
By default, all you need is hylian rice and goron spices (purchased from the vendor in Goron City) to make a base for a curry. Then you can add a carrot or a pumpkin, both of which you can buy from Hateno Village. If you choose a pumpkin, you will receive a defense boost. If you use a carrot, you’ll get a blurry effect instead, increasing your movement speed.