Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. Ingredients like nuts and acorns can be dropped by small birds, while mushrooms can grow at the base of trees or sprout out of cliffs and high rocks.Any recipes that call for meat, poultry, fish, or seafood won't be included here, so jump to the relevant section if you have a fish that you want to turn into something delightful. If you only have a campfire, jump to the roasted and frozen dishes section to see what you can make. On the downside, any effects the food might have bestowed is removed.Freezing food won't increase the amount of hearts refilled when you eat it, but it will produce the cold resistance effect.

The crudest but quickest way to harvest multiple fish is to lob a bomb into the midst of them and detonate it, leaving you free to swan in and scoop up their carcasses. Dropping neutral blue jelly into the snow or a fire, will turn it into the jelly of that element. These dishes produce an effect which generally last for a set amount of time, so higher levels will mean that the effect lasts longer.Using ingredients with higher potency grades also increases the level of the final dish, so stack ingredients or use grade A or B to get a level three meal.Once you know the effect of an ingredient, its grade and how long the effect lasts, you'll become a gourmand in no time, or you can flog the dishes for some extra rupees. It's always better to make actual meals in a cooking pot, but if you can't travel to one, are stuck for inventory space, or need to cool down sharpish, then roasting and freezing food is a good fallback. They usually hang out around Great Fairy Fountains, but you can find them in tall grass occasionally.

The fairy will replenish your HP gauge at the moment you would otherwise die, and then it'll bugger off.You can also use them in cooking, but don't panic, they don't get cooked up. Because Breath of the Wild recipes are so important we've gathered together every food and elixir BOTW recipe in to one handy cookbook so you don't have to.

These ingredients can be obtained by hitting the body part of the creature in question. Not all items will have both. So you'll always get the best recipe from what you cook. Keeping one in your inventory will allow you to escape death. The Blood Moon is an eerie mechanic in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that enhances Ganon's power, allowing the spirits of fallen enemies to return to life by the red glow. Like in real life, many of these sweets offer little nutritional value. Once they're cooked, the number of hearts they refill will increase.Raw bird drumstick and raw meat are at the low end of the meat scale, restoring four HP. It's worth noting that cooking a single hearty ingredient will produce an item of food that will fully replenish your HP gauge, regardless of how many hearts it's made up of, so these are particularly handy for later in the game when things get really tough.Energizing ingredients restore stamina. You will come across this problem very early in the game. Add them to dishes that call for a herb or mushroom, and the resultant dish will be given the effect of the ingredient you selected.Now that you know the effects imbued by these ingredients, you can cook up a storm.

You just throw some ingredients in a pot and 99% of the time, you'll get a meal out of it. Cooking will fail and produce Dubious Food if the ingredients used do not match any valid recipe, or produce Rock-Hard Food if any inedible ingredients (gems or wood) are used. All of the BOTW recipes for elixir, food and cooking in The Legend of Zelda: ... BOTW recipes and the buffs they provide are basically essential as you ... Rock Hard Food - Wood or any gemstone;

If you don't want to leave it to chance, you can guarantee a bonus by cooking during the Blood Moon, or by using a Star Fragment or Dragon body part as an ingredient.