In Tears of the Kingdom, stamina recovery food and elixir recipes revolve around their key ingredients. Any extra ingredients added to the recipe on top of the main ones only offer new flavor text at best and ruin the recipe at worst.
There are 10 key ingredients in the game that have the Stamina Recovery or Endurance properties. Recipes that gift Link with additional Stamina Wheels (Enduring) naturally offer Full Stamina Recovery as a benefit which is why these recipes are naturally the best at recovering stamina.
10 Stambulb - Energizing Cooked Stambulb
- Ingredients: 1 Stambulb
- Stamina Restored: 0.25 Stamina Wheel Recovery + 1 Heart Recovery (+0.25 Stamina Wheel/+1 Heart per Stambulb added)
If you're climbing a cliff and just need a small boost to reach the edge of the cliffhanger, having something in your inventory to give you a small yet meaningful boost in stamina can come in quite handy. Stambulbs are easily obtainable in various regions of the map. If you're a habitual herbalist, picking up every clickable item in the game, you'll have a fair few in your inventory at any given time. Throw these Stambulbs in a cooking pot to get an easy stamina recovery dish that doesn't require you to break the bank.
9 Stamella Shroom - Energizing Mushroom Skewer
- Ingredients: 1 Stamella Shroom
- Stamina Restored: 0.25 Stamina Wheel Recovery + 1 Heart Recovery (+0.25 Stamina Wheel/+1 Heart per Stamella Shroom added)
Right from the start of the game, you'll get access to plenty of Stamella Shrooms. If you're diligent about herb collection, your inventory will be filled to the brim with Stamells Shrooms. These Shrooms are excellent Stamina recovery ingredients you can use to also recover a small amount of health alongside stamina. Mix with other ingredients that restore health as well, like Hearty Radishes, to incorporate additional health recovery in the final dish.
8 Courser Bee Honey - Energizing Honey Candy
- Ingredients: 1 Courser Bee Honey
- Stamina Restored: 0.33 Stamina Wheel Recovery + 2 Heart Recovery (+0.33 Stamina Wheel/+2 Heart per Courser Bee Honey added)
Courser Bee Honey can be found by harvesting the bee nests that are attached to large trees around Hyrule. Aim and shoot an arrow at a nest to make it drop to the ground. Pick it up by interacting with it, and you should get a Courser Bee Honey item in your inventory. Although this is an excellent item for Stamina recovery, since it is not really farmable in the traditional sense, it is not listed higher in the list.
7 Bright-Eyed Crab - Energizing Seafood Skewer
- Ingredients: 1 Bright-Eyed Crab
- Stamina Restored: 0.33 Stamina Wheel Recovery + 2 Heart Recovery (+0.33 Stamina Wheel/+2 Hearts per Bright-Eyed Crab added)
Farming Bright-Eyed Crabs is easy and one of the most efficient uses of your time if you're planning on cooking Stamina recovery food in bulk. Rainy, wet locations, especially beaches, are perfect spots for finding these little critters. Bright-Eyed Crabs not only offer excellent value for effort in terms of stamina, but they also make for an effective health recovery dish at the same time. If you're preparing for a tough boss fight, having some of these in your back pocket can come in clutch.
6 Restless Cricket - Energizing Elixir Recipe
- Ingredients: 1 Restless Cricket + 1 Monster Part
- Stamina Restored: 0.25 Stamina Wheel Recovery (+0.25 with each additional tireless cricket to a maximum of 1 Stamina Wheel)
Restless Crickets are perhaps one of the easiest critters to farm in Tears of the Kingdom. You can find some by cutting down grass anywhere on the Surface or the Sky Islands. Cutting grass requires a bladed weapon, but it doesn't reduce durability, so you don't need to worry about running out of farming tools. Restless Crickets need to be combined with a monster part to create a workable elixir recipe. Like any other elixir, you can use any monster part you have on hand; the monster part in question will not change the nature of the elixir.
5 Staminoka Bass - Energizing Fish Skewer Recipe
- Ingredients: 1 Stamonika Bass
- Stamina Restored: 1 Stamina Wheel + 2 Hearts Recovery
Each additional Staminoka Bass added to the recipe adds one additional Stamina Wheel restoration to a maximum of three wheels. Any additional Staminoka Bass you add to the recipe will only add more health recovery (to a maximum of 10 Hearts). The only reason to add 5 Staminoka Bass to one dish will be if you're running very low on health recovery ingredients. Generally, it's better to separate health-recovery foods from stamina-recovery foods to avoid waste.
4 Energetic Rhino Beetle - Energizing Elixir Recipe
- Ingredients: 2 Energetic Rhino Beetle + 1 Monster Part
- Stamina Restored: 3 Stamina Wheel Recovery
Energetic Rhino Beetles are a rare sight in Hyrule but keep a lookout anyway. They can mostly be sighted in the Sky Islands, resting on branches or trees or bushes. Just like the Restless Cricket, an Energizing Rhino Beetle will also make an Energizing Elixir to recover stamina, but it's vastly more effective than the one made using a cricket. Using just two will take you from zero to full stamina.
3 Endura Mushroom - Enduring Mushroom Skewer
- Ingredients: 1 Endura Shroom
- Stamina Restored: Full Stamina Wheel Recovery + 0.25 Extra Stamina Wheel + 2 Hearts
Endura Shrooms are rare finds in the Hyrule Field and Hyrule Ridge regions. You will have to keep a keen eye out while you're out exploring to avoid missing these unassuming shrooms when you're out adventuring. But they're worth it. Finding an Endura Shroom means you have a full stamina recovery food on your hands. All you need to do is head to a cooking pot and put the shroom inside. No extra ingredients are needed.
2 Tireless Frog - Enduring Elixir Recipe
- Ingredients: 1 Tireless Frog + 1 Monster Part
- Stamina Restored: Full Stamina Wheel Recovery + 0.25 Extra Stamina Wheel + 7 Hearts
If you've been exploring the caves of Hyrule, you will surely come across plenty of Tireless Frogs in small ponds and on damp walls. While it may seem like a hassle to chase after every Tireless Frog you see, it is incredibly profitable to do so. Tireless Frogs make for one the best recipes in the game by giving you not only complete Stamina recovery but also part of an Extra Stamina Wheel on top of that. But most importantly, they're abundant, which means they're farmable. While there are better Stamina Recovery methods in the game, none are as easily accessible as this one.
1 Endura Carrot - Enduring Fried Wild Greens Recipe
- Ingredients: 1 Endura Carrot
- Stamina Restored: Full Stamina Wheel Recovery + 0.33 Extra Stamina Wheel + 4 Hearts
Like the Endura Shrooms, Endura Carrots also create enduring foods that fully restore stamina and add temporary stamina wheels. Using just one Endura Carrot, you can create an Enduring Fried Wild Greens dish to fully restore stamina and add temporary wheels on top of healing you for four hearts as well. But what makes Endura Carrots the best ingredient for Stamina Recovery dishes is not their incredible stamina recovery by itself-even though that's amazing-but the possibility of these carrots being grown as crops. After completing the Uma's Garden quest, you will unlock the ability to plant and harvest your very own crops. And Endura Carrots are one of the items on the list of farmable items.