Tears of the Kingdom Complete Cooking Ingredients List

When it comes to playing Tears of the Kingdom, it can be difficult to know where all the various ingredients are. These ingredients become important throughout the game because they allow the player to craft foods that protect them from various status effects as well as give back health. It can be increasingly difficult to find some of these ingredients due to being in either a certain location or requiring a certain kind of scenario to pop up. Patience and a keen understanding of the map can ensure that you’re able to maximize your crafting efforts; just don’t be afraid to spend hours at the cooking pot!

While adventuring, there will be no shortage of potions, food, and ingredients the player can come across; and all of it should be collected. One of the best features of the modern Legend of Zelda games is their ability to expand on a cooking system, making it almost integral to the survival of Link. With a menu dedicated to being a cookbook, it’s easy to learn and memorize your favorite recipes; though finding all of the ingredients required can be a real slog. For that reason, it’s good to keep a series of notes on the map via the many markers available in order to try and memorize the many things you’ll want to use for high-quality consumables.

Basic ingredients

When it comes to Tears of the Kingdom, it can be difficult to have a full list out in front of you of where an ingredient is located, or even what ingredients are fully in the game. There are twenty different types of crafting ingredients not including the various fruit types in the world of Hyrule. These ingredients often give a basic effect like giving back health or increasing the status effect of other ingredients. These are all essential for creating some of the best recipes in Hyrule, and great for getting the upper hand on your enemies. It’s fair to note that a lot of these ingredients cost a fair amount of traveling, or money to get your hands on.  Most of these include veggies, fruit, and other basic edible items.

Basic Ingredient List

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Beedle is a great place to find ingredients

These ingredients will be the basic mainstay of any playthrough, and many of these items can be seen as a crossover from Breath of the Wild. In this regard, it’s important to note that they are not the only ingredients in the world of Hyrule. The vast and intricate crafting system ensures that you could spend hundreds of hours collecting ingredients just to make every one of the recipes in the cookbook!

Meats

One of the major points of health restoration available in Tears of the Kingdom is the ability to hunt and prepare various types of meat. There is a wide variety of animals that you can hunt with your choice of ranged weapons or melee, and they provide ample opportunities to heal yourself. Making sure you spend a fair amount of time hunting various animals makes for a great way of protecting yourself from being overwhelmed by high-damage enemies. Mixing meats with status-effect items and basic ingredients can make complex multi-faceted dishes that can save you in a pinch!

Some of the best meat recipes include the meat pie, pepper steak, meaty rice balls, and meat skewer. These are all amazing payoffs for your hunting efforts, can grant Link a large amount of health bonuses for his efforts!

Meat Ingredients Table

Hylian Pizza

While these are the meats that are most commonly found on land, there can still be more found at sea or through various monsters. Indeed, it is not too unrealistic to think that some of these ingredients are on the weaker side in comparison to the seafood, fruit, and monster parts that can be made available. Just remember that meat is only one option in your ingredients table, and is best paired with other things!

Seafood

One of the more interesting ingredient types that became available in the Legend of Zelda series was the inclusion of seafood. There are three basic types of seafood that can be acquired: fish, crabs, and snails. Each can be used to create powerful dishes with interesting status effects similar to fruits. In truth, these foods are often more potent than either berries or meat and can be a lot of fun to acquire throughout the game! Fortunately, Tears of the Kingdom has added several slice-of-life features such as Ultrahand, which makes the tedious task of fishing all the easier! Remember to stock up on as much seafood as possible, as due to its potency its one ingredient type you won’t want to miss out on. 

Recipes like Pepper Seafood, seafood rice balls, salt-grilled fish, crab stir-fry, as well as seafood skewer make your playthrough easier. These fish-based recipes can make the most out of the fishing minigame and should be considered when planning your food preparations. Additional recipes include the creamy seafood soup, fish pie, seafood fry, and crab omelet.

Seafood Ingredient List

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Seafood, when coupled with other status effects like fruit or mushrooms, allows the player to get the most out of a status effect. The duration can be increased by using fruit and various other basic ingredients for what can become some highly potent recipes. Remember that you can mix and match some of the best combinations, or try to memorize a few that will get you through the experience quicker! Seafood can easily dominate your crafting space, but try to keep in mind that it is not the only source of food you will come across, though it certainly could be considered the best, and most abundant food source!

Fruit

Early on, one of the best ways to maximize your ability to craft foods with useful effects will be through the use of fruit. These are a powerful subtype of ingredient that is pretty easy to find throughout Hyrule. There’s never a shortage of places to go in order to find these wonderful ingredients, and they often offer unique bonuses that can help graciously. Even at the beginning, the tutorial of the game allows you to make a recipe called spicy peppers which is a handful of spicy peppers being thrown into the pot for cold resistance!

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Fruit Ingredient List

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Fruit is one of the most abundant food sources available in Hyrule, and can be easily acquired in bunches of three or four on a tree. They are often dropped by monsters and are one of the more common ingredient types you’ll find. It’s very important to note that these berries also add status effects to bow shots and weapons that have been fused with them. These versatile berries are great all around and will keep Link going through almost any environment so long as they’ve been cooked. Some of the best recipes will utilize a mixture of fruit, seafood, and other basic ingredients; so prepare yourself by collecting as many berries as possible as you explore the open world. 

Some of the best places where fruit shine is in things like apple pie, honeyed apple, voltfruit, hot buttered apple, and several other great recipes. Sweet and often offer the player with stamina and elemental resistance. Early on, these dishes will prove vital to your survival due to how abundant fruit can be!

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Mushrooms

Mushrooms can be one of the best friends of any crafting menu due to the fact that they have a wide and versatile set of status effects they can add to recipes. It’s important to note that these are one of the first crafting ingredients you can find, and will require you to look for shady areas or caves. The crafting of skewers and other savory dishes with these mushrooms, when paired with other ingredients can make extremely potent foods. These foods will help Link survive the coming fight with constructs, and the dangers of Hyrule; while maintaining a high abundance due to how common mushrooms are. Some of the best recipes for mushrooms include cream of mushroom soup, mushroom mix, and copious mushroom skewer, amongst many others. Finally, items like the big hearty truffle are among some of the most coveted ingredients in Hyrule!

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Many ingredient combinations make up recipes

While meat, fruit, and other ingredients tend to have some of the most potent effects, mushrooms are the absolute most abundant food throughout Hyrule, as even the rarest of these fungi are readily accessible in massive quantities if you know where to look. Remember that these often grow in shady sections and that monsters will often carry them as they are a favorite part of the dietary day-to-day of any monster in Hyrule. It’s also important to note that these mushrooms are great when attached to weapons as they provide an elemental bounce-back ability when striking enemies. Mushrooms are one of the best ingredients in the game early on due to mushroom skewers giving huge bonuses for a stack of mushrooms.

Herbs & Flowers

One of the last sets of ingredients that can really impact the cooking system and what you create with it are herbs and flowers. These ingredients are important because not only can they increase the desired effect of a dish, but sundelions are one of the most important ingredients in Tears of the Kingdom since the introduction of the gloom mechanic. These are vital means not only of protecting yourself but also of taking charge in battle as they provide a powerful explosive to your arsenal. Because of how common these flowers are, like mushrooms, they will take up a large amount of your crafting space; however, they are great for a wide variety of foods and elixirs! No matter how you handle gathering these ingredients, the wild greens of Hyrule are bountiful. 

Several potent vegetable recipes occupy the game, such as vegetable risotto, pumpkin pie, and cream of vegetable soup. Mixing this with the pumpkin stew, and ability to offer gloom resistance through sundelions and you have some of the best ingredients in the game. Additionally, mixing endura carrots or a swift carrot to your recipes will make even the plain crepe into a powerful recipe. 

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One of the major advantages of flowers and herbs over other ingredients is that they are often in areas with either a light amount of enemies or a heavy amount of other ingredients nearby. They are often seen as a sign of serenity and abundance, and so should be used as a key marker to look for more rare ingredients in the area. Finally, remember that these are good for more than just food, being very useful for making potions, and other valuable consumables. Never underestimate the fun of a little flower picking, as with enough of them you can bully your opponents into submission!

Other Ingredients Available

Besides what you’ll find on these lists, you’ll be able to find a good number of ingredients hiding in nature like rock salt, and pumpkins. These are easily found by traversing through Hyrule and can provide some of the best bonuses to your cooking! Remember that by mixing these ingredients with what you’ll find in this guide, you’ll be able to create some of the most potent stews. Fortified Pumpkins are able to help with stamina and defense, making them one of the best vegetables in the game. 

Cooking From Scratch

One of the best methods you’ll have available to you is collecting your own ingredients and preparing your own dishes. The cost of some ingredients can be astronomical, especially when they are only found and sold by traveling merchants. This is why it’s key to build up as many markers as you can with these locations in mind so you can simply cut out the guessing and wait for more immediate results. All ingredients respawn over time, usually after every blood moon, making it easier for players to stock up on their favorite goodies!

There are several great recipes you can add to your arsenal that keeps Link going while traversing the world. Vegetable Curry and Mushroom Risotto are some of the best mid-game recipes for gaining life back. Their abundance is key, along with the hearty Radish, wildberry and access to fish will keep your playthrough fresh and interesting. Other great recipes to look out for is veggie cream soup, salt-grilled mushrooms, fish skewer, and mushroom rice balls! These popular options can make the most out of the ingredients you find, and sound absolutely delicious! 

In the end, you’ll be able to create recipes that hopefully don’t turn out as dubious food. Because some of the most coveted recipes come from your ability to mix it up, so maybe you’ll get a neat sandwich or even the special hylian tomato pizza! Just keep trying new combinations, and don’t forget to check your cookbook.

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