The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild boasts an enormous number of recipes. Cooked food can increase Link's stamina, health, along with other positive buffs. Not having a real cookbook available, this article could become your definitive manual. We have decided to recommend the best recipes to use. They will certainly be for you.
Let's start from the basics and before going to discover the recipes let's see together how to cook:
How to prepare the dishes
Nothing complicated. To start being a little Marquess, you will need to be near a cauldron with a burning fire. Near the villages, camps (or at home, ed) you will almost always find one.
Open your inventory and select the ingredients you want to use: as if by magic, the meal will be ready for digestion.
The living flame
Some dishes can only be cooked with the help of an open flame. For example, you will have to drop some types of meat near the fire (as the description of the object suggests) and wait a few seconds, just long enough to roast the food properly.
Alternative recipes
Obviously the open flame and the cauldron should not be used only and exclusively with meaty foods. You can easily decide to cook an apple (without adding other ingredients) and taste it later. Although the result may not seem effective, the amount of health recovered will increase compared to that of the normal uncooked apple. If you want, you can also choose to cook more apples at the same time, in order to recover more hearts than with just one.
It is good to know that the same recipe can be obtained with the use of some different ingredients, although the result may - more or less - be less satisfactory than others. Adding ingredients will positively change the final result, but to achieve effectiveness you will need to use quality ingredients.
With this we are not advising you to create a jumble soup, also because it will not always have a positive effect. Indeed, if we decide to mix different ingredients with different effects very often we could get only one, or eliminate them both. It is recommended that you only add one stat boosting ingredient per dish. Player warned.
Quality ingredients
If you add a Fairy to your dishes, the dish will be better. Don't worry, it won't be cooked for real: it will just flutter around the cooking station and increase the beneficial effects of the dish.
However, when fairies are scarce, you will have to use healthier ingredients to try even to fully recover Link's life (perhaps adding some bonuses). Spices increase the effectiveness of the dish, but they can also totally change the result. They could extend the beneficial effects, as well as cut them off or make them stronger.
To better recognize the ingredients and find the positive effects sought, help yourself with the information described in the following table:
| Feature | Effect |
|---|---|
| Sneaky (Sneaky) | Makes movements quieter |
| Flame Retardant (Fire Resistance) | Defends from flames. |
| Insulator (Electro) | Defends against electricity. |
| Fatigue-relieving (Energizing) | Allows you to recover strength. |
| Piccapicca (Spicy) | Defends from the cold. |
| Take Breath (Resistance) | For a certain period of time, it allows you to increase maximum stamina. It also regains all vigor. |
| Strengthening (Strength) | Increases Attack for a certain amount of time. |
| Hardness (Hardness) | Increases defense for a certain period of time. |
| Semifreddo (Cold) | Defends from the heat. |
| Sprint (Rapidity) | Allows you to move faster. |
| Vivax (Vitality) | Allows you to increase the maximum number of hearts and restore all health. |
And now let's discover together the secrets of the Chef of the Wild cookbook and to help you in your search, we have decided to divide the recipes according to their positive effects.
- Force
| Dish | Ingredients | Effects | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enduring Steamed Meat | Carrot, Meat | Collect 6 hearts and stamina | Add quality meat to increase the number of hearts restored, or "Endura Carrots" to increase the recovery of stamina and hearts. |
| Energizing Fish and Mushroom Skewer | Mushroom, Aspio Hyrule | Collect 3 hearts and a portion of stamina | |
| Energizing Glazed Meat | Meat, Honey | Collect 6 hearts and a portion of stamina | |
| Energizing Honeyed Apple | Apple, Honey | Collect 5 hearts and a portion of stamina | |
| Energizing Meat and Seafood Fry | Meat, Crab | Collect 4 hearts and a portion of stamina | |
| Energizing Meaty Rice Balls | Meat, Rice, Honey | Recover 8 hearts and almost all stamina |
- Resistance to fire or frost
| Dish | Ingredients | Effects | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chilly Simmered Fruit | Water melon | Retrieves 1 heart and adds low heat resistance for 2.30 minutes | |
| Spicy Meat and Mushroom Skewer | Mushroom, Meat | Recover 3 hearts and add low cold resistance for 3 minutes | Add quality meat to increase the number of hearts, or more mushrooms to increase the duration. |
| Spicy Meat and Mushroom Skewer | Mushrooms x4, Meat XL | Retrieve 10 hearts and add medium resistance to cold for 10.30 minutes | Add quality meat to increase the number of hearts, or more mushrooms to increase the duration. |
| Spicy Meat and Seafood Fry | Aspio Hyrule, Meat, Spices | Recover 5 hearts and add low cold resistance for 3.30 minutes | Add more spices to increase the shelf life. |
| Spicy Pepper Seafood | Aspio Hyrule, Caldoperone | Recover 3 hearts and add low cold resistance for 3 minutes | |
| Spicy Pepper Steak | Caldoperone, Poultry | Recover 3 hearts and add low heat resistance for 3 minutes | |
| Spicy Salt-Grilled Meat | Caldoperone, Poultry, Rock Salt | Recover 3 hearts and add low cold resistance for 4 minutes | You can use any type of meat and get the same result. |
| Spicy Salt-Grilled Prime Meat | Caldoperone, rock salt, meat XL | Recover 8 hearts and add low cold resistance for 4 minutes | |
| Spicy Simmered Fruit | Caldoperone, Apple | Recover 2 hearts and add low cold resistance for 3 minutes | Add an Apple or Pepper to increase duration and restored hearts. |
- Enhance attack or defense
| Dish | Ingredients | Effects | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mighty Crab Risotto | Rice, Goat Butter, Rock Salt, Crab | Recover 4 hearts and slightly increase the attack for 4.10 minutes | |
| Mighty Fried Egg and Rice | Rice, Eggs, XL Fish | Recover 6 hearts and slightly increase the attack | Add meat or other ingredients to increase its effect and duration |
| Mighty Simmered Fruit | Bananalame | Recover 1 heart and slightly increase attack for 0.50 minutes | |
| Tough Fish and Mushroom Skewer | Mushroom, Fish | Get 3 hearts and slightly increase your defense for 1.20 minutes | |
| Tough Fried Wild Greens | Corazucca | Recover 1 heart and slightly increase defense for 0.50 minutes | |
| Tough Meat-Stuffed Pumpkin | Corazucca, Poultry | Get 3 hearts and slightly increase your defense for 1.20 minutes | Add various spices to extend the shelf life |
| Tough Meaty Rice Balls | Chiodone, Meat, Rice | Get 8 hearts and slightly increase your defense for 2.20 minutes | |
| Tough Mushroom Skewer | Chiodone, | Recover 1 heart and slightly increase defense for 0.50 minutes | |
| Tough Prime Meat and Rice Bowl | Chiodone, Meat XL, Rice, Rock Salt | Get 6 hearts and slightly increase your defense for 3.20 minutes | |
| Tough Salt-Grilled Mushrooms | Chiodone, rock salt | Recover 1 heart and slightly increase defense | |
| Tough Steamed Meat | Carapacciofo, Meat | Get 2 hearts and slightly increase your defense for 1.20 minutes |
- Movement speed
| Dish | Ingredients | Effects |
|---|---|---|
| Hasty Fish and Mushroom Skewer | Slancioloto, Mushroom, Fish | Collect 4 hearts and slightly increase your speed for 2 minutes |
| Hasty Friend Wild Greens | Carrot Sprint | Collect 1 heart and slightly increase speed |
| Hasty Simmered Fruit | Apple, Slancioloto | Collect 2 hearts and slightly increase speed |
- Increase maximum Health
| Dish | Ingredients | Effects | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baked Apple | Apple | Recover three quarters of a heart | It needs a living flame |
| Baked Palm Fruit | Palm nut | Recover a heart and a half | It needs a living flame |
| Fish Skewer | Aspio Hyrule | Recover two hearts | |
| Fried Egg and Rice | Rice, Eggs | Collect four hearts | |
| Glazed Meat | Cuortufo, Meat, Honey | Collect ten hearts | Add meat / fish to increase the number of hearts recovered |
| Hearty Fried Wild Greens | Cuoranello | Fully recover health and temporarily increase hearts by 4 | |
| Heart Meat Skewer | Meat, Durian Vivax | Fully recover health and temporarily increase hearts by 4 | |
| Hearty Mushroom Skewer | Black Cuortufo, | Fully recover health and temporarily increase hearts by 1 | |
| Hearty Omlet | Black cuortufo, Eggs | Fully recover health and temporarily increase hearts by 1 | |
| Hearty Fried Fruits | Durian Vivax x5 | Fully recover health and temporarily increase hearts by 20 | |
| omelet | eggs | Recover two hearts | Add other ingredients to add different effects. |
| Hearty Simmered Fruit | Durian Vivax | Fully recover health and temporarily increase hearts by 4 |
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