All Cooking Recipes in Where Winds Meet: Completing and Solving

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Cooking in Where Winds Meet is more than just a survival mechanic; it encourages you to explore and interact with the detailed world around you. Whether you’re gathering ingredients, discovering recipes, or facing various encounters, each part of the game helps you sharpen your skills, giving you a better chance to stay in the fight longer.

Cooking allows you to make dishes that restore health and provide temporary buffs that can significantly impact battles. Below, you’ll find all the essential information about recipes and how to master cooking in the game.

How to Cook

To cook in Where Winds Meet, you first need to learn the recipes. While some recipes are known initially, others need to be unlocked by meeting specific conditions, listed in the table below. Once you’ve unlocked a recipe, you’ll need ingredients, which can range from animal meat to fungi, typically easy to find in the game world. If you’re missing anything, you can visit locations marked on your map to forage, fish, or hunt for the needed items.

When you have all the ingredients, approach a fire with a pot or spit over it. Interact to open the cooking menu, where you can prepare dishes or get help with ingredient gathering. Some recipes are simple and heal small amounts, while others can provide powerful buffs like increased attack strength.

Recovery Dish Recipes

There are two types of recovery meals: ones that restore health gradually, and others that give you specific buffs. Currently, there are 13 different Recovery Dishes in the game.

Meal	Cooking Level	Ingredients	Effect	Stamina Cost	How to Unlock
Veggie Mix	1	2 Herbs, 2 Mushrooms	Restores 4,500 HP over 3 seconds	2	Available immediately.
Divine Stuffed Fish	1	1 River Fish, 2 Herbs, 1 Wild Fruits	Restores 4,500 HP over 3 seconds	2	Fish by fishing with Chu Shuiyang in Verdant Wilds.
Hotpot	1	2 Herbs, 2 Meat Scraps	Restores 4,500 HP over 3 seconds	2	Complete the “Culinary: The Flavor of Sunset Glow” exploration quest.
Savory Roast	20	2 Herbs, 3 Prime Meat Cut	Restores 9,000 HP over 3 seconds	3	Complete the “The Flavor of Sunset Glow” exploration quest.
Egg-Steamed Clams	20	2 Eggs, 2 Meat Scraps, 1 Mushrooms	Restores 9,000 HP over 3 seconds	3	Complete the “The Flavor of Sunset Glow” exploration quest.
Fish-Stuffed Lotus Pods	20	1 River Perch, 2 Mushrooms, 2 Wild Fruits	Restores 9,000 HP over 3 seconds	3	Fish with Chu Shuiyang in Verdant Wilds.
Sliced Fish Fillet	20	2 Snakehead, 3 Herbs	Restores 9,000 HP over 3 seconds	3	Fish with Chu Shuiyang in Verdant Wilds.
Steamed Pork	41	3 Herbs, 1 Prime Meat Cut	Restores 22,500 HP over 3 seconds	4	Obtain from the Meow Meow Temple Shop in Kaifeng.
Wine Mushrooms	41	3 Mushrooms, 3 Meat Scraps	Restores 22,500 HP over 3 seconds	4	Obtain from Meow Meow Temple Shop in Kaifeng.
Mushroom-Steamed Fish	41	2 Luokou Croaker, 3 Mushrooms	Restores 22,500 HP over 3 seconds	4	Fish with Chu Shuiyang in Verdant Wilds.
Steamed Egg Custard	61	3 Wild Fruits, 2 Eggs	Restores 39,000 HP over 3 seconds	5	Unlock “The Thirteenth Chambers” after progressing through the game.
Mock Clam Fish	61	2 Mandarinfish, 2 Wild Fruits	Restores 39,000 HP over 3 seconds	5	Fish with Chu Shuiyang in Verdant Wilds.
Braised Fish Head	61	2 Bighead Carp, 3 Herbs	Restores 39,000 HP over 3 seconds	5	Fish with Chu Shuiyang in Verdant Wilds.

Note: All cooking costs stamina. Keep this in mind when cooking in bulk.

Buff Food Recipes

Though fewer in number, buff foods are just as valuable. Only six buff recipes are currently available, and they provide temporary boosts that do not stack—meaning only one buff can be active at a time.

Meal	Cooking Level	Ingredients	Effect	Stamina Cost	How to Unlock
Crisp Carp Noodles	20	1 Golden Carp, 2 Beauty’s Garment, 2 Mushrooms	+1,100 Max HP for 30 min (refresh duration), does not stack during Trials or Martial Mastery	8	Fish with Chu Shuiyang.
Rotisserie Venison	20	2 Bai Zhu, 1 Deer Meat, 2 Eggs	+10-20 Physical Attack for 30 min (refresh duration)	8	Unlock “The Thirteenth Chambers.”
Crispy Pheasant	41	2 Vicious Frog Meat, 2 Mushrooms, 1 Vicious Flower	+20-40 Physical Attack for 30 min (refresh duration)	8	Complete Encounter – Culinary Successor.
Venison Soup	41	2 Wild Ginseng, 1 Venison, 3 Herbs	+2,300 Max HP for 30 min (refresh duration)	8	Unlock “The Thirteenth Chambers.”
Double Shreds	61	2 Great Bustard Meat, 1 Wei’s Purple Peony, 1 River Fish	+50-100 Physical Attack for 30 min (refresh duration)	8	Fish with Chu Shuiyang.
Pufferfish Soup	61	2 Jade Tower Peony, 1 Pufferfish, 2 Wild Fruits	+5,600 Max HP for 30 min (refresh duration)	8	Fish with Chu Shuiyang.