Food and cooking are essential parts of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with even the most powerful recipes having significantly more strength than others. Food in both ingredient form and cooked form can help Link a great deal, as can elixirs, with each helping Link gain back health and stamina, sometimes providing other benefits like cold or heat resistance. Knowing what BOTW recipes are best is a vital survival skill with all the different enemies Link encounters and the landscapes he explores.

Breath of the Wild features 118 different food dishes that can be cooked and 12 basic elixirs with variations. Food recipes use only food ingredients, whereas elixirs require a combination of critters and monster/guardian parts, which sometimes include some weird cooking combinations. With so many ingredient combinations to make different recipes and elixirs, knowing which BOTW recipes will benefit Link the most on his travels through Hyrule is useful.

The following Breath of the Wild recipes give the exact ingredients needed for the listed outcome; these recipes can be made with other ingredients for a product with less significant effects.

Best BOTW Stamina Recipes

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a lot of climbing and, depending on the player's skill level and available weapons, a lot of running from enemies. Link can burn through his stamina wheel very quickly, even when the Link's stamina wheels are maxed out in BOTW. The following recipes will restore or increase Link's stamina, which definitely comes in handy for those high climbs or a mad dash to safety.

Best BOTW Recipes for Hearts

Heart restoration items are some of the most important recipes in Breath of the Wild. At the start of the game, Link starts with only three hearts, so every bit of health-increasing food helps if you skip doing BOTW's health glitch. The following food recipes will grant Link all the hearts he could need, and sometimes even a few extra.

Best BOTW Condition-Resisting Recipes

Given all the different climates that Link travels through in Breath of the Wild, he is bound to run into some inclement weather. Cold-resistant, heat-resistant, and electric-resistant foods are a necessity when traveling through these areas unless you attempt at making Link fireproof in BOTW. Recipes labeled as "spicy" have a cold resist effect, "chilly" has a heat resist effect, and "electro" has an electric resist.

Having trouble farming Dragon Parts in BOTW to make these cooking recipes? Check out the video guide from Austin John Plays on YouTube below to see how to get Dragon Parts for BOTW recipes easily!

Best BOTW Recipes for Movement Speed

Many ambitious adventurers learn early on in the game that sometimes running away from the enemy is the best option. Whether it is an enemy too powerful or unexpected, sometimes Link needs to run instead of fight. Luckily, there are recipes in Breath of the Wild that can help make Link even faster.

Best BOTW Defense and Attack Recipes

Boosting Link's defense or attack stats is beneficial when dealing with BOTW's most powerful enemies. "Tough" dishes help increase Link's defense stat while "mighty" dishes increase his attack stat. Recipes are abundant in BOTW for each category, depending on what the player needs at the time.

Best BOTW Recipes for Stealth

While you could take on enemies in Breath of the Wild using an all-out frontal attack, others may play with more stealth and cunning. Either way, there are some moments where stealth is necessary, especially when facing the Yiga Clan. Luckily for Link, there are some BOTW recipes that increase his stealth and make him harder to detect.

Best BOTW Elixir Ingredient Combinations

Elixirs are made from a combination of critters (e.g., frogs, insects, lizards) and monster parts, which Link can also sell for items Kilton's Monster Shop in BOTW. The type of critter used results in one of 11 possible types of elixir, with the monster parts affecting the duration of the potion's effects. The most powerful monster parts are Bokogoblin Guts, Moblin Guts, Lizalfos Tail (all types), Lynel Guts, Keese Eyeballs, Modulga Guts, Hynox Guts, Ancient Core, and Great Ancient Core.

The following special ingredients add even more time to BOTW's elixirs:

• Shard of Dinraal's Fang - 630 seconds
• Shard of Dinraal's Horn - 1800 seconds
• Shard of Nydra's Fang - 630 seconds
• Shard of Nydra's Horn - 1800 seconds
• Shard of Farosh's Fang - 630 seconds
• Shard of Farosh's Horn - 1800 seconds

Knowing how to cook better in BOTW using the right ingredients can unlock many recipe combinations. The best ingredients are not always needed, and what you use will depend on the situation and environment that Link is facing. It is always beneficial to have multiple elixirs on hand for any occasion.

To see even more high-level elixir and food recipes in Breath of the Wild, check out the YouTube video from Hyrule Dude, which shows Link cooking some of BOTW's best recipes in action!

With so much to explore in Hyrule, many people are still discovering secrets and need to be prepared to take on anything. Food recipes and elixirs are essential to boost Link's health, stamina, and stats. It is currently unknown whether these same powerful recipes will make the most out of your adventure in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but for now, this is some of the best food Link can eat.

Source: YouTube/Austin John Plays | YouTube/Hyrule Dude

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  The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild

  Franchise:

  The Legend of Zelda

  Platform(s):

  Nintendo Switch

  Released:

  2017-03-03

  Developer(s):

  Nintendo EPD

  Publisher(s):

  Nintendo

  Genre(s):

  Action-Adventure, Open-World, RPG

  ESRB:

  E10+

  Summary:

  The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is an open-world, action-adventure RPG from Nintendo's EPD development team. Recently waking from a hundred-year slumber in a mysterious chamber, Link awakens with no memory of how he got there. Through a disembodied voice, he is told he must stop Calamity Ganon from destroying Hyrule - and to do so, he must regain his memories and gain the power to do so. Link will travel throughout Hyrule to re-awaken the four slumbering Divine Beasts to help approach the darkness-covered castle and retrieve the Master Sword. With the help of four guardian friends and tribes across the land, Link will battle the forces of darkness and save his friend, princess Zelda.

  Expansion Packs :

  The Master Trials, The Champion's Ballad

  Prequel:

  The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

  Sequel:

  The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom