The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom once again features a robust cooking system that offers a diverse array of recipes that offer Link a variety of benefits, from restoring hearts and stamina to improving his combat skills with increased attack power.
In Tears of the Kingdom, Copious Fried Wild Greens is a helpful meal that will restore Link’s hearts and is also used to upgrade horses with the Horse God Malanya. However, its preparation can be somewhat challenging and definitely annoying due to this specific requirement: Link must use four different ingredients when cooking this meal.
Therefore, it’s not recommended to prepare this dish solely for the purpose of restoring Link's heart containers. There are far simpler recipes that do not impose such stringent criteria and provide greater heart restoration, or even additional bonus effects, depending on the chosen ingredients. Here's everything there is to know about cooking Copious Fried Wild Greens in Tears of the Kingdom.
How To Cook Copious Fried Wild Greens In Tears of the Kingdom
As previously mentioned, to create Copious Fried Wild Greens, Link must cook a combination of four unique vegetables, plants, or herbs. Thankfully, this includes a broad range of easily obtainable materials. However, when selecting these ingredients, it is absolutely crucial to include at least two ingredients that would typically add special effects to a recipe, such as enhanced stealth from Silent Princess or increased cold resistance from Warm Safflina.
The deliberate inclusion of two such ingredients ensures the ingredients’ buff effects will be nullified, guaranteeing the production of Copious Wild Greens instead of a dish with additional benefits.
For example, if the player opts to incorporate only one of the aforementioned two flowers in their recipe, along with no other ingredients which add a bonus effect, the Warm Safflina would produce a “Spicy” meal, while a dish prepared using Silent Princess would become “Sneaky.” However, when both are included, these effects will counteract each other, resulting in the desired outcome of Copious Fried Wild Greens.
Here are all the ingredients that can be used to cook Copious Fried Wild Greens in Tears of the Kingdom. Again, this dish requires Link to use four different ingredients; he will want to cancel out any buff effects by using at least two ingredients which would normally add a bonus. Therefore, he’ll need to be mindful about what he throws in the pot.
- Armoranth
- Blue Nightshade
- Cool Safflina
- Electric Safflina
- Fortified Pumpkin
- Hyrule Herb
- Mighty Thistle
- Silent Princess
- Stambulb
- Sundelion
- Swift Carrot
- Swift Violet
- Warm Safflina
The easiest to procure ingredients for Copious Fried Wild Greens are any of the game’s wide variety of plants which, while useful in buff foods and elixirs, are also generally available in large quantities and can be collected with little effort.
As a reminder, tomatoes are a fruit and should not be used in crafting this recipe as their inclusion will always result in a tomato dish, and fruit will result in Fried Wild Greens instead. Additionally, no mushrooms or “hard” ingredients (acorns, seeds, pine cones, etc.) should be used. Also, it may go without saying, but the player should not try cooking with Bomb Flowers.
What are Copious Fried Wild Greens Used For In Tears of the Kingdom
The Horse God Malanya specifically requests Copious Fried Wild Greens to enhance a horse's abilities in Tears of the Kingdom. Copious Fried Wild Greens are required to increase a horse's Strength from two stars to three stars and its Pull from three stars to four stars. For the majority of players, this will serve as the main purpose for preparing this meal, making it crucial to understand the proper method of crafting it.
While Copious Fried Wild Greens will replenish Link's heart containers, typically ranging from two to eight hearts of restoration, it is not recommended to utilize this intricate recipe solely for that purpose.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available now for the Nintendo Switch.