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We all eat food in every day, just like Link does in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom. Food is vital, it helps you stay alive and it restores Link’s health. You’ll be eating way more in game than humanly possible in real life, but it’s the only way to restore your hearts.

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Food can either be raw, roasted, or cooked, and different foods provide different heart numbers. If you cook food properly, you can activate secondary status effects in order to give your power a boost in various ways. If you're looking for the best meals to ease Link’s journey, here are the best food recipes you'll definitely want him to get a taste of.

7 Bright Fish Skewer

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom Fish Skewer Dish

It can be very challenging, when you’re entering dark caves in Tears of The Kingdom, even though you can shoot Brightbloom arrows all over the place to illuminate the cave. However, one dish that is a pescatarian-friendly dish proves to come in very handy in those certain situations.

Bright Fish Skewer transforms Link into a humanoid nightlight. Simply by cooking one or more Glowing Cave Fish, Link will get lit enough to illuminate even the darkest of caves with ease.

With Bright Fish Skewer, dark caves become much more practicable and less intimidating.

6 Sunny Veggie Rice Balls

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom Veggie Rice Balls

Link and Zelda spend most of their time at the beginning of their journey while venturing through the caves beneath Hyrule Castle, where a mysterious Gloom is spreading.

This malevolent form of corruption continues to exist as Link goes into the depths. Similar to other environmental effects in the game, Gloom can and will chip away Link’s health.

Its impact can be mitigated by consuming Sunny Veggie Rice Balls, which are made of veggie rice balls infused with the power of the sun. While Hylian Rice can restore a portion of Link's hearts, the vital role is played by Sundelions, which aid in recovering any hearts lost due to the effects of the Gloom.

5 Spicy Pepper Steak

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom Spicy Pepper Steak

The Spicy Peppers on their own are great when you’re looking for Cold Resistance foods, though health is the name of the game, it's better and worth it if you mix three Spicy Peppers with two Steaks in order to make the Spicy Pepper Steak. Aside from sounding delicious, Spicy Pepper Steak will recover seven hearts.

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This dish will give you more bang for your buck, it doesn’t only give you seven hearts but it also gives you the ability to withstand snow and icy breezes. It grants you a total duration of eight and a half minutes for Cold Resistance, which can be reasonably substantial in certain scenarios.

If you’re already in the middle of nowhere in the snow, make sure you have the cooking pot item on you because this meal is a must-have.

Tough Mushroom Skewer

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom Tough Mushroom Skewer

This is a simple meal that only requires one ingredient, Ironshrooms. This is a phenomenal food recipe, one that leads you to a meal that will temporarily increase your defense to a much higher status than before.

Simply add any number of Ironshrooms to a cooking pot and achieve this brilliant food to your inventory.

Link will need a lot of defense the deeper you go into the game’s story because the enemies will certainly get tougher and the threat of death will increase. You will get hit, and that is simply how it is, so having the Tough Mushroom Skewer in your bag will always benefit Link by not only recovering some hearts but providing a boost to his overall defense!

4 Hearty Fried Wild Greens

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom Hearty Fried Wild Greens

The Fried Wild Greens give you the capability to restore five and a half hearts on their own. In order to prepare this dish, you’ll only require some Chickaloo Tree Nuts and Hyrule herbs put together.

You can even get additional perks by using other ingredients such as Sundelions to gain Gloom Resistance.

By adding a few Hearty items into the dish, like Hearty Radish, the meal will transform into Hearty Fried Wild Greens, consuming it will add some temporary bonus hearts. Even though these hearts cannot be replenished, they will prolong Link’s health until you’re able to find the requisite Heart Containers to make the increase permanent.

3 Hasty Mushroom Skewer

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom Hasty Mushroom Skewer

Hasty Mushroom Skewer is a delightful food, when you are in need of increased movement speed it will come in very handy. Rushrooms are a primary choice of ingredient in order to get Link to move faster, which applies not only to running but also climbing.

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By collecting a total of five Rushrooms, the potency of the speed boost can be intensified. Moreover, when you combine it with meat or fish, they will restore a portion of Link’s health in addition to the speed boost.

For some more enhancements, you can add some Rock Salt. This is going to be the meal for all those speedrun enthusiasts.

2 Energizing Meat and Mushroom Skewer

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom Energizing Meat and Mushroom Skewer

At the beginning of your adventure, Link’s stamina depletes very rapidly, that’s where Energizing Meat and Mushroom Skewer come in, all you have to do is combine any number of Stamella Shrooms with Raw Meat, and you will be able to replenish your health as well as your stamina to help you in long climbs or while you’re on those long paragliding sessions.

With this energizing meal in your arsenal, you'll be able to sustain your stamina levels, allowing you to overcome challenging obstacles and reach new heights in your journey in Tears of The Kingdom. So, better make sure to gather the necessary ingredients and prepare this essential dish to support you on your adventure.

1 Mighty Meat and Mushroom Skewer

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom Mighty Thistle Plant

This one follows the same cooking method as the Energizing Meat and Mushroom Skewer, albeit with a slight change to make it more… hard-hitting. You’ll need one meat of any kind, combined with one mushroom of any kind, but then you need a Mighty Thistle, which is there for the attack power increase.

A pro tip is to utilize this meal before those tough gauntlets full of enemies and mobs. This will increase your attack power for a minute and fifty seconds.

It may not sound like much, but it can be a huge deal when going into a battle with tough enemies. Plus, the attack power increase timer can be elongated by adding more Mighty Thistles, making this meal even more potent at helping you cleanse Hyrule of those pesky monsters after the Upheaval.

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