What is the best food to cook in Tears of the Kingdom?

Hearty Durian cooked alone gives full heart restoration + 4 bonus yellow hearts — the best healing food. Endura Carrot ×5 gives maximum temporary stamina. Mighty Bananas and Razorshroom meals give attack up. For boss fights, cook the ingredient matching your needed buff (fire, cold, lightning, speed) at the highest tier for maximum duration.

How do you cook in TotK?

Find a cooking pot (usually at stables, villages, and campfires). Hold up to 5 ingredients with the hold button (X by default), walk to the cooking pot, and press A to cook. The game calculates the best dish from your ingredients. You can also cook by throwing food directly into a fire, but this uses single ingredients and risks burning food.

What ingredients give the longest buff duration in TotK?

Dragon parts dramatically increase buff duration. A Shard of Farosh's Horn (electric dragon horn) adds 30 minutes to any cooked meal duration. Farosh's Fang adds 10:30 minutes. Farosh's Claw adds 3:30. Combine with elemental ingredients (Smotherwing Butterfly for fireproof, Bokoblin Guts for attack) for 30-minute max-tier buffs.

How do you make elixirs in TotK?

Combine a critter (lizard, butterfly, frog, dragonfly) with a monster part in a cooking pot. Critters provide the effect type (fireproof lizard = fireproof, Bokoblin Guts = attack up) and monster parts add duration and potency. Adding multiple of the same critter increases potency. Dragonfly + Bokoblin Guts = Energizing Elixir (stamina restore).

Cooking & Recipes — Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

COMPLETE RECIPE GUIDE

Cooking & Recipes

Every important recipe in Tears of the Kingdom — sorted by effect and category. Cook the right food before entering each region or boss fight.

How Cooking Works

Cook at any pot

Find cooking pots in stables, villages, and camps. Look for the flame.

Combine up to 5 ingredients

More of the same effect ingredient = stronger effect and longer duration.

Monster parts boost elixirs

Higher tier monster parts (boss drops) give longer durations for elixirs.

Random bonus meals

"It's ready!" means a bonus — extra hearts or duration on a lucky star meal.

Hearty Elixir

Ingredients

Hearty Lizard

Bokoblin Horn

Bokoblin Fang

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Full hearts restoration + bonus yellow hearts

Cooking Calculator

Mighty Banana

+1 ❤

Attack Up

50s

Mighty Thistle

0 ❤

Attack Up

50s

Razorshroom

+1 ❤

Attack Up

50s

Result

Hearts Restored

+2 ❤

Effect

Attack Up

Duration

2m 30s

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PRO TIP

Expert

Cooking

Cook any meal during a Blood Moon (between 11:30 PM and midnight) for a guaranteed critical success. Critical meals get boosted hearts, duration, or extra yellow hearts. Save your best ingredients for Blood Moon nights!

Showing 279 of 279 recipes

Name	Effect	Category	Duration	Ingredients
Baked Apple	No Effect	Roasted	--	1
Bokoblin Speed Elixir	Speed Up	Elixirs	3:00	2
Campfire Egg	No Effect	Roasted	--	1
Chilly Elixir	Heat Resistance	Elixirs	5:30	3
Chilly Elixir (Cold Darner)	Cold Resistance	Elixirs	2:30	2
Chilly Elixir (Max Duration)	Cold Resistance	Elixirs	8:30	4
Chilly Fruit and Mushroom Mix	Heat Resistance	Meals	10:00	4
Chilly Fruit and Shroom Mix	Heat Resistance	Meals	4:10	3
Chilly Mushroom Risotto	Heat Resistance	Meals	8:30	5
Chilly Mushroom Skewer	Heat Resistance	Meals	6:30	3
Chilly Seafood Rice Balls	Heat Resistance	Meals	2:30	2
Chilly Steamed Fish	Heat Resistance	Meals	4:30	2
Copious Fried Wild Greens	No Effect	Meals	--	4
Copious Meat Skewers	No Effect	Meals	--	5
Copious Mushroom Skewer	No Effect	Meals	--	4
Copious Resistance Mix	No Effect	Meals	--	5
Copious Seafood Skewer	Hearty	Meals	--	4
Copious Seafood Skewers	No Effect	Meals	--	5
Copious Simmered Fruit	No Effect	Meals	--	4
Cream of Mushroom Soup	No Effect	Meals	--	3
Creamy Meat Soup	No Effect	Meals	--	4
Depths Expedition Stew	Gloom Recovery	Meals	Until depleted	5
Depths Survival Pack	Hearty	Meals	Until depleted	4
Dubious Food	No Effect	Meals	--	1
Egg Pudding	No Effect	Meals	--	3

How Cooking Works

Hearty Steamed Meat

Hearty Mushroom Skewer

Hearty Salmon Meuniere

Hearty Fried Wild Greens

Hearty Durian Skewer

Mighty Banana Skewer

Mighty Sauteed Greens

Mighty Meat and Mushroom Skewer

Tough Mushroom Skewer

Tough Meat-Stuffed Pumpkin

Tough Rice Balls

Hasty Mushroom Skewer

Hasty Seafood Rice Balls

Sneaky Steamed Fish

Sneaky Mushroom Skewer

Energizing Mushroom Skewer

Energizing Honeyed Apple

Energizing Honey Crepe

Enduring Mushroom Rice Balls

Enduring Carrot Stew

Spicy Pepper Steak

Spicy Sauteed Peppers

Spicy Meat and Seafood Fry

Chilly Fruit and Mushroom Mix

Chilly Mushroom Risotto

Electro Mushroom Skewer

Electro Veggie Cream Soup

Fireproof Elixir

Fireproof Elixir (Basic)

Spicy Elixir

Chilly Elixir

Electro Elixir

Mighty Elixir

Tough Elixir

Hasty Elixir

Sneaky Elixir

Energizing Elixir

Sunny Veggie Omelet

Sunny Mushroom Risotto

Sunny Fried Wild Greens

Meat Stew

Copious Fried Wild Greens

Salmon Risotto

Simmered Fruit

Roasted Apple

Roasted Mighty Bananas

Roasted Bass

Roasted Bird Drumstick

Seared Steak

Seared Prime Steak

Seared Gourmet Steak

Frozen Bass

Frozen Bird Drumstick

Frozen Meat

Frozen Prime Meat

Frozen Gourmet Meat

Mighty Banana Rice Ball

Mighty Simmered Fruit

Mighty Crab Risotto

Tough Steamed Mushrooms

Tough Pumpkin Stew

Tough Crab Stir-Fry

Hasty Mushroom Risotto

Hasty Veggie Rice Balls

Enduring Steamed Vegetables

Spicy Mushroom Risotto

Chilly Steamed Fish

Electro Mushroom Risotto

Electro Fruit Mix

Fireproof Meat Curry

Sunny Veggie Porridge

Sunny Steamed Tomatoes

Copious Mushroom Skewer

Gourmet Meat Curry

Prime Meat and Rice Bowl

Fish and Mushroom Skewer

Seafood Paella

Vegetable Curry

Mushroom Omelet