Tears of the Kingdom Best Recipes by Effect, for Rupees and for the Horse God
All 15 cooking effects in Tears of the Kingdom and their ingredients, the highest-selling meals and elixirs, Critical Success rules, and the Horse God's dishes.
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 Critical Success rules and the Horse God’s menu.
How many recipes are there?
228, including elixirs and Fairy Tonic (both the Japanese and Chinese full lists end at #228). 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?
| Effect (prefix) | What it does | Ingredients that cause it |
|---|---|---|
| Hearty | Temporary extra hearts (full heal) | Hearty Radish, Big Hearty Radish, Hearty Truffle, Big Hearty Truffle, Hearty Bass, Hearty Salmon |
| Enduring | Extra stamina wheel | Endura Carrot, Endura Shroom |
| Energizing | Restores stamina | Stamella Shroom, Stambulb, Staminoka Bass, Courser Bee Honey |
| Hasty | Movement speed up | Swift Carrot, Rushroom, Fleet-Lotus Seeds, Swift Violet |
| Mighty | Attack up | Mighty Bananas, Mighty Thistle, Razorshroom, Mighty Carp, Mighty Porgy |
| Tough | Defense up | Ironshroom, Fortified Pumpkin, Armoranth |
| Chilly | Heat resistance | Hydromelon, Chillshroom, Cool Safflina, Chillfin Trout |
| Spicy | Cold resistance | Spicy Pepper, Sunshroom, Warm Safflina |
| Electro | Shock resistance | Voltfruit, Zapshroom, Electric Safflina |
| Fireproof | Flame guard (elixir only) | Smotherwing Butterfly, Fireproof Lizard |
| Sneaky | Stealth up | Silent Shroom, Blue Nightshade, Sneaky River Snail |
| Bright | Glow in the dark | Brightcap |
| Sunny | Restores gloom-damaged hearts | Sundelion, Sun Pumpkin |
| Warding | Gloom resistance | Dark Clump |
| Sticky | Slip resistance | Sticky Frog, Sticky Lizard |
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. The ingredient lists come from the in-game material descriptions and Game8’s recipe tables.
Which recipes sell for the most rupees?
| Dish | Ingredients | Sells for |
|---|---|---|
| Meat Skewer | Raw Gourmet Meat ×5 | 315 |
| Meat Skewer | Raw Prime Meat ×5 | 135 |
| Fireproof Elixir | Fireproof Lizard ×3, Molduga Guts ×2 | 423 |
| Sticky Elixir | Sticky Frog ×3, Horriblin Guts ×2 | 144 |
| Hearty Fruit and Mushroom Mix | Golden Apple ×3, Big Hearty Truffle ×2 | 133 |
| Energizing Elixir | Boss Bokoblin Guts ×1, Restless Cricket ×1, Hyrule Herb ×3 | 127 |
| Spicy Elixir | Horriblin Guts ×3, Warm Darner ×1 | 123 |
| Hearty Tomato Mushroom Stew | Big Hearty Truffle ×2, Hylian Tomato ×2 | 92 |
| Warding Meat Skewer | Raw Prime Meat ×2, Dark Clump ×3 | 81 |
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. Values from Game8 (2025) and Polygon; one Reddit thread lists the Gourmet skewer at 312 — we use Game8’s 315.
How does Critical Success work?
A Critical Success adds three extra hearts of healing, extends the effect duration, or raises the effect by one level. It is guaranteed in three cases: cooking on a Blood Moon night (the Blood Moon rises at midnight after seven in-game days), adding a Star Fragment or Golden Apple, or adding a dragon part — a scale, fang fragment, claw or horn from Naydra, Farosh or Dinraal (horns give 30-minute effects). Gibdo Guts guarantee it for elixirs. Otherwise the chance is random.
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
- 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
FAQ
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