TotK Best Recipes by Effect, for Rupees and the Horse God

Tears of the Kingdom’s cooking is effect-first: the dish name comes from the base ingredients, the useful part — the prefix — comes from the effect ingredients you add. This page gives the 15 effects and their ingredients, the best-selling dishes, the incredible success rules and the Horse God’s menu.

How many recipes are there?

228, including elixirs and Fairy Tonic. Your in-game recipe book records only the base recipe — for example “Meat Skewer” — while the item in your inventory carries the prefix, such as “Hearty Meat Skewer”. That is why the book can be complete while you have never cooked most prefixed variants.

What are the 15 cooking effects and which ingredients cause them?

Bright, Sunny, Warding and Sticky are new to Tears of the Kingdom. Sunny is the one to keep stocked before the Depths; Warding buys time in gloom. Critters — frogs, lizards, butterflies, darners, beetles, crickets and fireflies — give their effect only in elixirs, cooked with a monster part. The ingredient lists come from the in-game material descriptions and the game’s cooking data.

Which recipes sell for the most rupees?

These are picks for price, not strength: by the game’s cooking parameters the Fireproof Elixir above is only level 1 and the Sticky Elixir level 2, because monster parts add time, not level. For the strongest versions see Fireproof and Sticky. The formula behind these prices, the best meals and the Lynel Guts elixirs that sell for over 1,400 are on recipes to sell. Ordinary meals sell for around 30 rupees, so five-Gourmet-Meat skewers are the standard farming loop.

How does incredible success work?

An incredible success adds three extra hearts of healing, five more minutes of duration, or one more effect level. The usual chance is 5% for each different ingredient in the pot (25% with five), and it is certain when you cook on a Blood Moon night, add a Star Fragment or Golden Apple, or add a scale, claw, fang shard or horn from Dinraal, Naydra, Farosh or the Light Dragon; Gibdo Guts make it certain for elixirs. The full odds table, the ingredients that raise the chance, and how effect level and duration are counted: how to cook. How often the Blood Moon comes and what it resets: the Blood Moon guide.

What does the Horse God Malanya want?

Malanya has moved to Bloodleaf Lake in Akkala. An Endura Carrot wakes him; after that he revives a horse for a Roasted Endura Carrot and raises its Strength, Speed, Stamina or Pull one star at a time for vegetable meals — Fried Wild Greens for the second star, three each of three dishes for the fifth. The full table, with every recipe, is on the Horse God recipes page.

Related

• How to cook — cooking without a pot, effect levels and duration, incredible success odds, elixirs and failed dishes
• Recipe finder — tick the ingredients you have and see what you can cook
• All 228 recipes — the whole recipe book in the game’s order
• Recipes to sell — the price formula and what earns the most
• Horse God recipes — every meal Malanya takes, star by star
• Armor upgrade materials — the other sink for your monster parts
• All 152 shrine locations — chests hold many of the elixir ingredients
• Lynel locations — Lynel guts for the top-tier elixirs

To restock full-recovery meals, follow the Hearty ingredient routes for sky radishes, cave truffles and fish. The Hearty cooking guide handles effects and recipes.