Making food in Tears of the Kingdom is a great way to pass the time and get some helpful items. Want to deal more damage? Eat an attack-up dish! Just finished a long battle and need to recover some hearts? Relax and enjoy a few meals. Vegetable risotto is one of many examples of dishes you can create, and you can turn it into a great defense-boosting meal with the right ingredients. If you want to learn more, continue reading to discover how to make vegetable risotto in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Vegetable Risotto Recipe in Tears of the Kingdom (TOTK)
Below are all the ingredients you need to make vegetable risotto in Tears of the Kingdom:
Once you have each item, find a cooking pot, hold onto your ingredients, and toss them in! The resulting dish is vegetable risotto with a status effect, depending on which vegetable you use.

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That’s right; the vegetables you use will determine the dish’s status effect, so be careful with what you pick! You can shape the meal to give you movement speed bonuses, more health, and other fun perks. Just don’t mix and match vegetables with different statuses, or they’ll cancel each other out.
How to Get Vegetable Risotto Ingredients in Tears of the Kingdom
The most important part of making any cooked dish is making sure you have the right ingredients! Below is a list of thelocations and coordinatesI found to gather each item for vegetable risotto:
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Most of the ingredients you need are available as soon as you enterHateno Villagefor the first time. you’re able to buy three of the required items from the general store, includingcarrots and pumpkins as vegetables.The only exception is rock salt, which you can buy inGoron Cityor obtain in the wild.
Be careful with which ingredients you use! I quickly experimented with three recipes, with Hylian tomatoes, spicy pepper, and Swift carrot as the vegetables. The first two resulted in Simmered Fruit, whilethe carrot created vegetable risotto.You’ll also want to avoid using mushrooms, as they’ll instead make mushroom risotto!

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available to play on Nintendo Switch. To learn more about the game, check outhow to make carrot cake in Tears of the Kingdom, or click the tag below to browse our complete TOTK content collection!
Madison Benson
Madison was a staff writer at Prima Games who has played video games for over twenty years and written about them for over two years. Her love for video games started with turn-based strategy games like Heroes of Might and Magic and has since extended to casual farming sims, MMORPGs, and action-adventure RPGs.
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