BotW Recipes to Sell: Best Meals and Elixirs for Rupees

Cooking adds value in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: a dish sells for 1.5 to 2.8 times what its ingredients fetch on their own. This page gives the game’s price formula, the meals that sell best, and the elixirs that sell for the most, with where their monster parts come from.

How is the sell price of cooked food worked out?

Add up the sell prices of everything in the pot, multiply by the rate for that many ingredients, drop the decimals, and round up to the next 10.

Ingredients	Rate
1	×1.5
2	×1.8
3	×2.1
4	×2.4
5	×2.8

The rates come from the game’s cooking data, and the count is how many items go in, not how many kinds. We checked the formula against 311 dishes recorded with in-game screenshots, from 2 to 910 rupees, and every one matches.

For example, Raw Gourmet Meat sells for 35:

Raw Gourmet Meat	Sum	× rate	Meat Skewer sells for
1	35	52.5	60
2	70	126	130
3	105	220.5	220
4	140	336	340
5	175	490	490

A five-ingredient pot earns the most per ingredient, so cook in fives.

Which meals sell for the most?

Five of one ingredient, everything that makes 200 rupees or more:

Five of	Dish	Sells for	One ingredient sells for
Raw Gourmet Meat	Meat Skewer	490	35
Raw Whole Bird	Meat Skewer	490	35
Endura Carrot	Fried Wild Greens	420	30
Sanke Carp	Fish Skewer	280	20
Hearty Bass	Fish Skewer	260	18
Staminoka Bass	Fish Skewer	260	18
Big Hearty Truffle	Mushroom Skewer	210	15
Big Hearty Radish	Fried Wild Greens	210	15
Hearty Durian	Simmered Fruit	210	15
Raw Prime Meat	Meat Skewer	210	15
Raw Bird Thigh	Meat Skewer	210	15
Hearty Blueshell Snail	Seafood Skewer	210	15

Raw Gourmet Meat drops from large animals. Trott at Outskirt Stable also buys Raw Gourmet Meat at 100 a piece once you have done his side quest; see rupee farming.

Which elixirs sell for the most?

An elixir is critters plus monster parts, and monster parts are where the money is. With four Lynel Guts (200 rupees each) and one critter:

Critter	Elixir	Sells for
Energetic Rhino Beetle	Energizing Elixir	2,330
Hearty Lizard	Hearty Elixir	2,300
Tireless Frog	Enduring Elixir	2,300
Fireproof Lizard	Fireproof Elixir	2,260
Bladed Rhino Beetle	Mighty Elixir	2,260
Rugged Rhino Beetle	Tough Elixir	2,260
Any 2-rupee critter (butterflies, darners, Hot-Footed Frog, Sunset Firefly)	Its elixir	2,250

The critter matters little; the four monster parts set the price. With an Energetic Rhino Beetle (30 rupees, the dearest critter), four of each part sell for:

Four of	Sells for	Four of	Sells for
Lynel Guts	2,330	Lynel Horn	540
Giant Ancient Core	2,330	Ancient Shaft	540
Molduga Guts	1,320	Hinox Tooth	480
Hinox Guts	980	Red Lizalfos Tail	480
Ancient Core	980	Molduga Fin	420
Lynel Hoof	650	Bokoblin Guts	310

Where the parts come from: Lynel Guts from White-Maned and Silver Lynels (always), Blue-Maned (60%) and red ones (10%), see Lynel farming; Molduga Guts from the four Moldugas; Hinox Guts from Hinoxes; ancient cores from Guardians, see ancient materials.

For every dish and what it does, see all recipes and the best recipes. The sequel uses a different formula: see Tears of the Kingdom recipes to sell.