Breath of the Wild — Best Recipes & Cooking Guide

Cooking — Best Recipes & Elixirs

Cook at lit pots (found at stables, villages, and guardian camps). Combine up to 5 ingredients. Matching bonus types amplifies effects. Dragon parts extend any recipe to 30 minutes. Hearty Durian is the single most valuable ingredient in the game.

Cooking Rules

Only one bonus type per meal — mixing Mighty (attack) with Sneaky (stealth) creates a Dubious Food that heals only 1 heart with no bonus. Always match ingredient bonus types. Hearty ingredients always override other bonuses (use them alone or with other Hearty). Critical Cook bonus (timing + weather + lighting) can double bonus hearts.

Hearty Fried Wild Greens

Ingredients: Hearty Durian x4

Full heal + 20 bonus hearts. Best healing food in the game. Durians grow on palm trees in Faron region.

Endura Sautéed Mushrooms

Ingredients: Endura Shroom x5

Full restore + 3 extra yellow Endurance wheels. Best stamina food.

Mighty Banana Crepe

Ingredients: Mighty Bananas x4

Full heal + Attack Up (Lv 3, 10 min). Best offensive buff food.

Sneaky Fried Wild Greens

Ingredients: Swift Violet x4

Full heal + Speed Up (Lv 3). Best mobility food.

Hearty Mushroom Skewer

Ingredients: Toasty Big Hearty Truffle x2 + Hearty Durian x2

Full heal + 23+ bonus hearts. Highest healing output.

Dragon Horn Elixir

Ingredients: Dragon Horn (Farosh/Dinraal/Naydra)

Lasts 30 minutes — any effect using dragon horn scales to max duration and tier.

Fireproof Elixir

Ingredients: Fireproof Lizard x3 + Monster Extract

10 minute fire resistance. Required for Death Mountain and Vah Rudania. Farm Fireproof Lizards on Death Mountain trail.

Chilly Sautéed Peppers

Ingredients: Chilly Pepper x5

Cold resistance for hot areas AND hot resistance — the pepper gives the opposite of its name in some recipes. Check the cold-resist version in Hebra region peppers.

Any single-ingredient meal

Ingredients: Shard of Farosh's Horn x1

Adding a dragon shard to any recipe extends its duration to 30 minutes. Farosh flies over Lake Hylia at dawn — hit a horn with an arrow.

Random Monster Meal

Ingredients: Monster Extract + Any 4 ingredients

Monster Extract randomizes the result — can produce amazing effects or terrible ones. The gamble sometimes creates 30-minute max-tier meals.

Electro Elixir

Ingredients: Electric Darner x3 + Restless Cricket x2

Electric shock immunity for 7+ minutes. Required for Vah Naboris approach.

Hasty Elixir

Ingredients: Hightail Lizard x5

Speed boost for fast traversal. Stack with Stealth Set for ninja playstyle.