Food dishes are on the other side of the cooking game mechanic in Breath of the Wild when compared to Elixirs. Food dishes are typically made up of…food. If you pick up meat, mushrooms, herbs, fish, vegetables and so many other things in the game that you would eat in the real world can also be cooked and eaten in Breath of the Wild. Food dishes are usually used to refill hearts and can often provide a bonus such as a resistance to the cold.
Cooking any piece of food on it’s own will always increase the number of hearts that it restores. This is a bit wasteful though as combining 2 or more items together can often result in the total amount of hearts being triple and will often give a buff. The main issue is knowing the best recipes to use in the game. I will attempt to list as many useful recipes as possible here and list what the buffs and results that you get from them.
Before you waste too much time looking for existing recipes, you should read the post about understanding recipe buffs in this walkthrough. The ingredients can differ, but the end result will be the same thing with a different name. You can save a lot of time by learning how these work before wasting time hunting down specific ingredients when you could replace it with something similar and get the same result.
The recipes below are broken up into sections to explain what you get for certain ingredients. You should also be aware that you do not need to use any of the recipes below to get a meal with a certain buff. If you check out the section of this walkthrough that explains how status buffs work, you can simply cook one of any item that contains the keyword and it will create a cooked version that gives you the buff. However, the recipes below are far more potent and will also restore much more health.
General Cooking Recipes
The following cooking recipes do not provide any buffs. Some items, for example, the baked apple, are cooked by putting the apple on an open flame rather than a cooking pot. See the sections below for recipes that will provide a status buff.
| Baked Apple | ❤¾ | Apple |
| Baked Palm Fruit | ❤½ | Palm Fruit |
| Fish and Mushroom Skewer | ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ | Fleet-Lotus Seeds Zapshroom Staminoka Bass |
| Dubious Food | ❤ | – |
| Fish Skewer | ❤❤ | Hyrule Bass |
| Fried Egg and Rice | ❤❤❤❤ | Hylian Rice Bird Egg |
| Fruit and Mushroom Mix | ❤❤ | Apple Hylian Shroom |
| Failed Experiment | ❤¼ | – |
| Fried Wild Greens | ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ | Raw Meat Hyrule Herb Swift Carrot Spicy Peppers |
| Glazed Meat | ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ | Hearty Truffle Raw Meat Courser Bee Honey |
| Honeyed Fruits | ❤❤❤❤❤ | Courser Bee Honey Spicy Pepper |
| Meat & Mushroom Skewer | ❤❤❤ | Raw Meat or Bird Meat Hylian Shroom |
| Meat and Seafood Fry | ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ | Raw Meat Mighty Carp Spicy Peppers |
| Meat Skewer | ❤❤ | Raw Bird Drumstick |
| Meaty Rice Balls | ❤❤❤❤ | Raw Meat Hylian Rice |
| Omelet | ❤❤ | Bird Egg. More eggs wll make it stringer |
| Pepper Steak | ❤❤❤ | Spicy Pepper Mighty Thistle Raw Bird Drumstick |
| Roasted Acorn | ½ | Acorn |
| Roasted Bird Drumstick | ❤½ | Raw Bird Drumstick |
| Roasted Radish | ❤❤❤¾ | Hearty Radish |
| Roasted Bass | ❤½ | Hyrule Bass |
| Salt-Grilled Meat | ❤❤ | Raw Meat Raw Bird Drumstick Rock Salt |
| Salt-Grilled Fish | ❤❤❤❤ | Spicy Pepper Rushroom Rock Salt Armored Carp |
| Salt-Grilled Mushrooms | ❤ | Hylian Shroom Rock Salt |
| Seared Gourmet Steak | ❤❤❤❤½ | Raw Gourmet Meat |
| Seared Prime Steak | ❤❤ | Raw Prime Meat |
| Seared Steak | ❤½ | Raw Meat |
| Simmered Fruit | ❤ | Apple Acorn or Spicy Pepper |
| Steak Skewer | ❤❤ | Seared Steak |
| Steamed Meat | ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ | Raw Meat |
| Steamed Mushrooms | ❤❤ | Stamella Shroom Blue Nightshade |
| Toasty Hylian Shroom | ❤½ | Hylian Shroom |
| Toasty Stamella Shroom | ❤½ | Stamella Shroom |
Hearty Food Dishes
Hearty food dishes will fully replenish all of Links health and will also add some additional hearts, similar to how the Miphas Grace will restore all your health and add some additional hearts when you die. The following recipes can be used to create powerful hearty food dishes.
| Hearty Steamed Meat | ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ | Adding temporary ❤❤❤ | Raw Meat Hearty Radish Hearty Truffle |
| Hearty Salt-Grilled Fish | Heart Containers Fully Healed | Adding temporary ❤❤ | Rock Salt Fish |
| Hearty Steamed Mushrooms | Heart Containers Fully Healed | Adding temporary ❤❤❤❤ | Hearty Radish Hearty Truffle |
| Hearty Fried Wild Greens | Heart Containers Fully Healed | Adding temporary ❤❤❤ | Hearty Radish Hyrule Herb Mushrooms Steamed Meat |
| Hearty Meat & Mushroom Skewer | Heart Containers Fully Healed | Adding temporary ❤❤❤ | Raw Meat or Bird Meat Hearty Truffle |
| Hearty Mushroom Skewer | Heart Containers Fully Healed | Adding temporary ❤❤❤❤ | Raw Meat Hearty Truffle |
| Hearty Wild Greens | Heart Containers Fully Healed | Adding temporary ❤❤❤❤ | Hearty Radish Hyrule Herb mushroom Raw Meat or Bird Meat |
Spicy Food Dishes
The following dishes will provide a resistance against the cold.
| Spicy Simmered Fruit | ❤❤ | Granting Cold Resistance Duration For 3:00 | Spicy Peppers Apple |
| Spicy Meat and Mushroom Mix | ❤❤❤❤❤ | Granting Cold Resistance Duration For 8:30 | Spicy Peppers 2x Hylain Shroom 3x |
| Spicy Meat and Seafood Fry | ❤❤❤❤❤ | Granting Cold Resistance Duration For 3:30 Adding More Spicy Peppers Increase the Duration. | Spicy Peppers Hyrule Bass Raw Meat |
| Spicy Meat and Mushroom Skewer | ❤❤❤❤ | Granting Cold Resistance Duration For 3:30 | Spicy Peppers Sunshroom Raw Meat |
| Spicy Pepper Seafood | ❤❤❤ | Granting Cold Resistance Duration For 3:00 | Spicy Peppers Hyrule Bass |
| Spicy Sautéed Peppers | ❤❤❤❤❤ | Granting Cold Resistance Duration For 12:30 | Spicy Peppers 5x |
| Spicy Salt-Grilled Meat | ❤❤❤ | Granting Cold Resistance Duration For 4:00 | Spicy Peppers Raw Bird Drumstick |
| Spicy Salt-Grilled Prime Meat | ❤❤❤❤ | Granting Cold Resistance Duration For 4:00 | Spicy Peppers Raw Prime Meat Rock Salt |
| Spicy Simmered Fruit | ❤❤ | Granting Cold Resistance Duration For 3:00 Adding More Fruit or Spicy Peppers will Increase the Duration. | Apple Spicy Peppers |
| Spicy Elixir | – | Granting Cold Resistance | Sizzlewing Butterfly Bokoblin Fang |
| Spicy Pepper Steak | ❤❤❤ | Granting Cold Resistance Duration For 3:00 | Raw Meat Hylian Shroom Spicy Pepper |
| Spicy Fruit & Mushroom Mix | ❤❤❤❤❤ | Granting Cold Resistance Duration For 5:30 | Spicy Pepper Hylian Shroom |
Heat Resisting Recipes
The following food dishes will give Link a status buff that will grant a resistance to the heat.
| Chill Steamed Fish | – | Granting Heat Resistance Duration For 3:30 | Hylian Shroom Cool Safflina Hyrule Bass |
Electricity Resisting Recipes
| Electro Meat Skewer | – | Granting Electric Resistance Duration For 3:00 | Raw Meat Voltfruit |
Speed Increasing Recipes
| Hasty Fish and Mushroom Skewer | ❤❤❤❤ | Granting Movement Speed Duration For 2:00 | Raw Meat Voltfruit |
| Hasty Friend Wild Greens | ❤ | Granting Movement Speed Duration For | Swift Carrot |
| Hasty Simmered Fruit | ❤❤ | Granting Movement Speed Duration For | Apple Fleet-Lotus Seeds |
| Hasty Veggie Cream Soup | ❤❤ | Granting Movement Speed Duration For | Swift Carrot Fresh Milk Rock Salt |
Stamina Recovery Recipes
| Energizing Fish and Mushroom Skewer | ❤❤❤ | Recovers Stamina | Stamella Shroom Hyrule Bass |
| Energizing Steamed Meat | ❤❤❤❤❤ | Recovers Stamina | Raw Meat Hyrule Herb Stamella Shroom |
| Energizing Glazed Meat | ❤❤❤❤❤❤ | Recovers Stamina | Raw Meat Courser Bee Honey |
| Energizing Honeyed Apple | ❤❤❤❤❤ | Recovers Stamina | Apple Courser Bee Honey |
| Energizing Meaty Rice Balls | ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ | Recovers Stamina | Raw Meat Hylian Rice Courser Bee Honey |
Defense Boosting Recipes
| Tough Fish and Mushroom Skewer | ❤❤❤ | Defense Boost Duration 1:20 | Hylian Shroom Armored Carp |
| Tough Fried Wild Greens | ❤ | Defense Boost Duration 0:50 | Fortified Pumpkin |
| Tough Hot Buttered Apple | ❤❤❤ | Defense Boost Duration 2:40 | Apple Fortified Pumpkin Goat Butter |
| Tough Meat-Stuffed Pumpkin | ❤❤❤ | Defense Boost Duration 1:20 | Fortified Pumpkin Raw Bird Drumstick |
| Tough Meaty Rice Balls | ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ | Defense Boost Duration 2:20 | Ironshroom Raw Meat Hylian Rice |
| Tough Mushroom Skewer | ❤ | Defense Boost Duration 0:50 | Ironshroom |
| Tough Prime Meat and Rice Bowl | ❤❤❤❤❤❤ | Defense Boost Duration 3:20 | Ironshroom Raw Prime Meat Hylian Rice Rock Salt |
| Tough Salt-Grilled Mushrooms | ❤ | Defense Boost | Ironshroom Rock Salt |
| Tough Steamed Meat | ❤❤ | Defense Boost Duration 1:20 | Armoranth Raw Meat |
| Tough Meat and Mushroom Skewer | – | Defense Boost | Raw Meat Ironshroom x4 |
Attack Increasing Recipes
| Mighty Crab Risotto | ❤❤❤❤ | Attack Boost Duration 4:10 | Hylian Rice Goat Butter Rock Salt Razorclaw Crab |
| Mighty Simmered Fruit | ❤ | Attack Boost Duration 0:50 | Mighty Bananas |
Stealth Boosting Recipes
| Sneaky Fried Wild Greens | ❤❤❤❤ | Stealth Boost Duration 2:00 | Blue Nightshade |
| Sneaky Steamed Mushrooms | ❤❤❤ | Stealth Boost | Silent Shroom Blue Nightshade |
| Sneaky Steamed Meat | ❤❤ | Stealth Boost Duration 2:30 | Raw Meat Blue Nightshade |
| Sneaky Steamed Fish | ❤❤ | Stealth Boost | Hyrule Bass Blue Nightshade |
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