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Collecting various ingredients and cooking delicious meals is what Link will have to do throughout the game. After all, only meals and potions can quickly restore your health or compensate for gaps in your abilities by getting a few buffs. At the same time, consistently high health indicators are the first thing you should take care of, and Hearty Salmon can occupy this niche. Thanks to the cooking effect of this fish, you can restore all health and get bonus hearts. So, we are here to help you and tell you how to get Hearty Salmon in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Where To Find Hearty Salmon in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
To get Hearty Salmon in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, travel to the coldest regions in the game and look for unfrozen waters. Meaty and incredibly hardy Hearty Salmon hate the heat because they are too brutal fish for comfortable living conditions. But the unbearable cold and eternal snowfalls are what make Hearty Salmon happy.
Looking at the map, it is not difficult to guess that you can find Hearty Salmon in the mountain lakes of the Hebra Mountains and Tabantha Frontier. Lake Kilsie, Strock Lake, or the large Lake Totori around Rito Village are great places to go fishing. But it is worth noting that you can occasionally meet Hearty Salmon in warmer waters to the east of its habitats. However, the further you go, the less likely you are to succeed.
It is worth noting that Hearty Salmon is a fast and agile fish, so it is not easy to catch it. On the other hand, you can resort to a more efficient but slightly poaching method. As soon as you see at least one Hearty Salmon in the water, throw Yellow Chuchu Jelly into the water. All fish within the range of this item will receive a powerful electric shock and die instantly. After that, you can easily collect your loot.
How To Use Hearty Salmon in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
After catching some Hearty Salmon, you can eat it to restore as much as four HP hearts. But you can make this fish even tastier and more nutritious by cooking it. Cooked Hearty Salmon will recover much more HP and give you an extra HP heart.
Here are a couple of recipes that will restore your health and give you an extra HP heart:
- Hearty Salmon Meuniere: Hearty Salmon, Tabantha Wheat, and Goat Butter.
- Hearty Salmon Risotto: Hearty Salmon, Hylian Rice, Goat Butter, and Rock Salt.
Tears of the Kingdom is available on Nintendo Switch.
