Breath of the Wild Cooking Recipes: Effects & Tips

In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, eating isn’t just a comfort mechanic—it’s one of the most important systems you’ll use to survive Hyrule’s hazards. Cooking lets you bring prepared meals with you, and each dish can restore hearts and add additional effects depending on what ingredients you combine. A key detail for players is that recipes can include up to 11 different effects, so the same base dish can behave very differently depending on the ingredients you choose.

Below is a breakdown of the cooked dishes and the ingredients tied to each result, including the heart restoration amounts and the specific ingredient sets that produce them.

How cooking attributes work

Recipes can be crafted to generate multiple effects at once—up to 11 in total. For example, when you make a rice-based meal using a vivacious salmon, it grants extra hearts on top of the normal healing provided by the food itself. One of the listed attribute examples is protection against electricity.

All cooked food recipes listed

Coastal-style dishes include Hyrule Rice prepared with crab meat, using halite and either any crab type. This version fills four hearts.

Arroz de Hyrule + Mantequilla + Halita + Any Cangrejo → fills four hearts

Several rustic rice bowls focus on salting and combining rice with specific meats. A common version uses Hyrule Rice, halite, and game or bird meat, while stronger variants swap in larger meat sizes for bigger meals. One Hyrule Rice bowl with halite and “Ave XL” is designed for a heavier appetite, and “Ave XXL” is presented as a more intense option with extra-quality cuts.

Rústico bowl: Arroz de Hyrule + Halita + Carne de Caza o Ave
Heavier bowl: Arroz de Hyrule + Halita + Carne de Caza o Ave XL
Most intense bowl: Arroz de Hyrule + Halita + Carne de Caza o Ave XXL

There’s also a simple egg-and-rice option, pairing Hyrule Rice with a bird egg.

Arroz de Hyrule + Huevo de Ave

When you go for seafood-forward cooking, fish and special shell ingredients become the defining flavor. One example is a more elaborate rice dish that includes vivacious snail elements and butter, halite, and dorada (golden fish), which is described as filling all hearts plus four extra. The “vivacious salmon” variant is explicitly tied to extra hearts beyond standard recovery.

Arroz de Hyrule + Mantequilla + Halita + Caracol Vivaz + Dorada → fills all hearts, plus 4 extra
Arroz de Hyrule + Mantequilla + Halita + Salmón Vivaz → fills all hearts and adds 4 extra

Rice also appears in multiple mushroom-focused and vegetable-friendly meals. A buttered, halite rice dish with any mushroom is described as having a particularly appetizing aroma. There’s also a lighter rice plate intended as kid-friendly by combining Hyrule Rice with butter, halite, and either carrot or pumpkin.

Arroz de Hyrule + Mantequilla + Halita + Any Seta
Arroz de Hyrule + Mantequilla + Halita + Zanahoria o Calabaza
Arroz de Hyrule + Especias Goron

Spiced rice meals are separated into escalating meat sizes. The basic “spiced with meat” version calls for Hyrule Rice, game meat, and Goron spices. The XL and XXL variants replace the meat size accordingly, described as deeper, more intense, and aimed at fans of thick fillets and spices.

ARROZ ESPECIADO CON CARNE: Arroz de Hyrule + Carne de Caza + Especias Goron
ARROZ ESPECIADO CON CARNE XL: Arroz de Hyrule + Carne de Caza XL + Especias Goron
ARROZ ESPECIADO CON CARNE XXL: Arroz de Hyrule + Carne de Caza XXL + Especias Goron

Beyond bowls, the list includes rice balls with meat, fish, mushrooms, vegetables, and even monster essence. One rice ball option pairs Hyrule Rice with game meat. Another rice ball recipe is filled with grilled fish, where the type of fish changes the flavor. A mushroom rice ball uses Hyrule Rice plus any mushroom.

Bolas de arroz con pescado: Arroz de Hyrule + Cangrejo, Caracol o Pescado
Bolas de arroz con setas: Arroz de Hyrule + Cualquier Seta
BOLAS DE ARROZ CON VERDURA: Arroz de Hyrule + Zanahoria o Calabaza
BOLAS DE ARROZ DE MONSTRUO: Arroz de Hyrule + Esencia de Monstruo

Some recipes are presented as typical for specific communities or cooking styles, such as Kakariko Village’s vegetable rice balls, and rice balls flavored by monster essence that aren’t for everyone.

Skewers and mixed grilled plates also show up. There are meat-and-mushroom skewers made from game or bird meat plus any mushroom. For fish skewers, one version uses any fish and any mushroom, while another emphasizes just mushrooms. There’s also a mixed meat skewer that requires at least four game or bird meats.

BROCHETA DE CARNE Y SETAS: Carne de Caza o Ave + Cualquier Seta
BROCHETA DE PESCADO Y SETAS: Cualquier Pescado + Cualquier Seta
BROCHETA DE SETAS (brocheta): Cualquier Seta
BROCHETA DE CARNE VARIADA: 4 o más Carnes de Caza o Ave

Sea-salt crab cooking is also listed, using any crab type combined with halite. Several meat dishes emphasize “to the point of salt” by pairing game or bird meat (including XL and XXL) with halite. Another heavier-style recipe wraps meat in wild plant leaves, adding carrot or pumpkin and herbs or flowers alongside the meat.

Cangrejo a punto de sal: Any Cangrejo + Halita
Carne a la parrilla con sal: Carne de Caza o Ave + Halita
XL con sal: Carne de Caza o Ave XL + Halita
XXL con sal: Carne de Caza o Ave XXL + Halita
Carne envuelta en hojas: Carne de Caza o Ave + Zanahoria o Calabaza + Hierbas o Flores

Mixed meat-and-fish plates appear in multiple intensity tiers: one uses game or bird meat with any fish, another uses XL meat with any fish, and a third uses XXL meat with any fish. The list also includes a “bad result” meal made from incompatible ingredients: it’s described as not tasting good, and it’s produced by combining “weird mixes” such as insects or other rare mixtures, filling three-quarters of a heart.

Carne + pescado: Carne de Caza o Ave + Cualquier Pescado
Carne XL + pescado: Carne de Caza o Ave XL + Cualquier Pescado
Carne XXL + pescado: Carne de Caza o Ave XXL + Cualquier Pescado
Mezclas raras: Insectos u otras mezclas raras → fills 3/4 heart
Plato con fruta cocida: Frutas → fills 1/4 heart

Desserts and fruit-forward cooking include an apple butter dish, combining an apple with butter. There’s also a fruit recipe that mixes sweet and sour flavors by cooking fruit slowly, which in this list is tied to restoring one quarter of a heart.

MANZANAS A LA MANTEQUILLA: Manzana + Mantequilla

Other categories include fruit-and-mushroom sautéing, mountain-style mixed sautéed plants, vegetable sautéing with mushrooms steamed in wild leaves, grilled mushrooms with halite, and a mushroom dish with “Vigor honey.” The list also includes a creamy soup that develops its characteristic sweet flavor by slow-cooking vegetables with milk, halite, and either carrot or pumpkin.

SALTEADO DE FRUTAS Y SETAS: Carne de Caza o Ave + Setas
SALTEADO DE MONTAÑA VARIADO: 4 Vegetales + Hierbas o Flores
Salteado vegetal con setas al vapor: Setas + Vegetales + Hierbas o Flores
Setas a la parrilla con sal: Setas + Halita
Plato de champiñones con miel: Setas + Miel de Vigor
Sopa cremosa dulce: Leche + Halita + Zanahoria o Calabaza

Finally, the list includes simple egg cooking with bird eggs, and a healthy vegetable-and-herb plate that combines vegetables, herbs or flowers, and halite.

Plato de huevo: Huevos de Ave
Plato sano vegetal: Verduras, hierbas o flores + Halita

With this set of recipes, the core strategy remains the same: select ingredients to control both healing and added effects, taking advantage of the system that allows up to 11 effects per recipe when you tailor your meal to the situation you’re facing.