TotK Hearty Recipes: Ingredients, Hearty Elixir and More
Hearty food and the Hearty Elixir in Tears of the Kingdom: every ingredient that carries Extra Hearts, how strong each is and the dishes using them.
What does Hearty do?
Hearty food is the healing you save for hard fights. The game describes it as restoring your health and temporarily raising your maximum hearts; the elixir’s text adds that the extra hearts are lost as you take damage, so eat it when you need it rather than in advance.
Which ingredients give Hearty?
Seven ingredients carry it. In the cooking data Big Hearty Radish is the strongest (20), ahead of Hearty Lizard, Hearty Salmon and Big Hearty Truffle (16 each); Hearty Truffle is the weakest (4). Hearty has no levels: the stronger the ingredients, the more extra hearts.
- Effect
- Extra Hearts
- Dish name prefix
- Hearty
- Elixir
- Hearty Elixir
- Levels
- No levels
The game says“Restores your health and temporarily increases your maximum hearts.”
The elixir's description“Restores you to full health and increases your maximum hearts. The additional hearts are lost as you take damage.”
Ingredients with this effect
| Ingredient | Type | Strength¹ | Sells for | Where it's placed² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Hearty Radish | plant or vegetable | 20 | 25 | — |
| Big Hearty Truffle | mushroom | 16 | 25 | — |
| Hearty Lizard | critter | 16 | 20 | — |
| Hearty Salmon | fish or seafood | 16 | 20 | — |
| Hearty Radish | plant or vegetable | 12 | 20 | — |
| Hearty Bass | fish or seafood | 8 | 18 | — |
| Hearty Truffle | mushroom | 4 | 20 | caves 73 · Hyrule Field 2 · Necluda 2 |
¹ The number the game's cooking data gives each ingredient for this effect: higher is stronger, and a pot adds them up. Levels follow set thresholds on the total; the “easiest way” section below lists the combinations that reach them.
² How many times the game's world data places the ingredient at a fixed spot, and the three areas with the most (a region is the one of the nearest shrine). Ingredients from animals, monsters, ore deposits, shops or random spawns are not counted, and those listed can also turn up elsewhere.
Hearty Elixir: Cook one or more of the critters above with one or more monster parts.
Dishes that ask for one of these ingredients by name
- 45 Salmon Meunière
- 59 Creamy Heart Soup
- 82 Salmon Risotto
- 163 Roasted Radish
- 164 Roasted Big Radish
- 177 Toasted Hearty Truffle
- 178 Toasted Big Hearty Truffle
- 191 Roasted Hearty Bass
- 192 Roasted Hearty Salmon
- 211 Frozen Hearty Bass
- 212 Frozen Hearty Salmon
Any other dish whose recipe takes an ingredient of the same type ("any mushroom", "any fish") also carries the effect when you use one of these.
How do you get the most extra hearts from one dish?
Hearty has no levels; the points simply become extra hearts, 4 points to a heart (Big Hearty Radish, 20 points, gives 5). Every Hearty dish also refills your hearts completely, so the ingredient count changes the potential yellow-heart bonus. Your existing permanent hearts limit how much of that bonus you can actually use.
| Pot | Points | Extra hearts |
|---|---|---|
| Big Hearty Radish ×5 | 100 | 25 |
| Big Hearty Truffle ×5 | 80 | 20 |
| Hearty Lizard ×4 + monster part (elixir) | 64 | 16 |
| Hearty Radish ×5 | 60 | 15 |
| Hearty Truffle ×5 | 20 | 5 |
Five Big Hearty Radishes is the ceiling for a single pot. The cooking parameters cap the effect at 108 points, higher than any five ingredients can reach, but the meal’s potential bonus and the extra hearts Link can actually hold are different limits; an incredible success adds one more extra heart. There is no reason to add ordinary food for healing — the full refill already covers it — and adding any other effect’s ingredient wipes the Hearty effect out.
Where do you find Hearty ingredients?
Use the Hearty ingredient farming routes for stops, entrances and search order. Prioritize sky islands for radishes, caves for truffles, sky pools for Hearty Bass and cold water for Hearty Salmon. Hearty Lizards have a canyon, cave and well route.
| Ingredient | Fixed placements |
|---|---|
| Hearty Truffle | 78; 73 of them in caves |
| Big Hearty Truffle | 21, all in caves (Upland Zorana Summit Cave has 2) |
| Hearty Radish | 19, all on sky islands |
| Big Hearty Radish | 8, all on sky islands, mostly over the south of the map |
| Hearty Bass | 13, all on sky islands, 9 of them over Tabantha and Hebra |
| Hearty Salmon | 11 fixed spots, 7 in Tabantha — the item text says it lives in cold water |
| Hearty Lizard | 3 |
Explore the caves for truffles and the sky islands for radishes; neither shows up much on the ground. Fish and critters also spawn outside their fixed spots, so the salmon and lizard counts are a starting point, not the whole supply.
The farming guide also reserves nine Hearty Bass for Zora armor and five Hearty Lizards for Sand Boots. This page covers cooking combinations and effects; placement counts are not guaranteed harvests.
Related
- Recipe finder — tick what is in your pouch, or pick Hearty and see every dish that can carry it
- All recipes — the whole recipe book in the game’s order
- Best recipes — the 15 effects side by side, incredible success and the Horse God
- Enduring, Energizing, Sunny — related effects
Video walkthrough
FAQ
Which ingredients give Hearty?
What is the strongest Hearty ingredient?
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