Like most other games of its type, Genshin Impact relies on a variety of items to allow players to heal their characters. From their roster of healers to special character abilities, there are quite a few systems in place to help players dodge unnecessary damage. However, the most basic form of healing remains in food that can be made in the game.
Food recipes in Genshin Impact range from one-star recipes that do minimal healing to more complicated five-star dishes with optimal performance. Nonetheless, some of the most proven foods in Teyvat come from four-star recipes that balance performance and cost-efficiency.
Updated on July 2, 2023, by Nahda Nabiilah: Cooking plays a huge role in Genshin Impact as foods can heal or boost a character's performance, which will make a huge difference in the middle of a battlefield. As Travelers know, there are a variety of rarities for meals in Genshin Impact, and the rarer the meal, the better the performance. Sadly, it does come with a slight disadvantage as some rare recipes call for rare materials. Additionally, some dishes in the game can only be made with event-exclusive recipes that people may have missed.
Overview
Generally speaking, food recipes in Genshin Impact can be divided into four distinct categories: health, attack, defense, and stamina. Starting with health-boosting dishes, these foods will benefit the player by either reviving a downed character or healing a fixed amount of HP/healing over a duration. Attack and defense dishes work similarly in their respective areas to each other, boosting stats either generally or in specific areas (like Physical DMG and shield quality.) On the other hand, stamina dishes don't focus on combat, either reducing consumption or increasing stamina by a set amount.
Currently, there are no four-star recipes that target health and stamina-boosting in Genshin Impact. However, with three more regions at the least, players can expect to see the release of four-star recipes in these areas in the future. For now, however, Genshin Impact players will need to look towards three-star or lower recipes for these kinds of services.
Biryani
- Category: DEF-Boosting Dish
- Ingredients: 4 Rice, 3 Raw Meat, 2 Spice, 1 Padisarah
Upon unlocking Sumeru and reaching Reputation level 7, players are rewarded with the Biryani recipe. Additionally, it’s possible to purchase the four-star dish from Jut (he can be found in the Grand Bazaar) for 12,500 Mora. Biryani boosts defense for all team members in Genshin Impact as well as increases healing effectiveness.
Ingredients wise, Rice, Meat, and Spice are pretty easy to obtain since all the materials can be purchased from vendors found in Sumeru City. As for Padisarah, it’s one of Sumeru’s local specialties and can be found in certain locations.
Bountiful Year
- Category: ATK-Boosting Dish
- Ingredients: 4 Fish, 4 Carrots, 2 Onions, 1 Violetgrass
The recipe for the four-star meal Bountiful Year was part of the Genshin Impact 2.4 event, Fleeting Colors in Flight. The dish increases attack and critical rate for all party members upon consumption.
Luckily, it’s not too difficult to collect the required ingredients to cook a Bountiful Year as most of the materials are sold by merchants or found while exploring. The Violetgrass on the other hand is a Liyue local specialty that is plucked from mountains.
Butter Crab
- Category: DEF-Boosting Dishes
- Ingredients: 4 Butter, 4 Crab, 2 Seagrass, 1 Matsutake
Each region in Genshin Impact has a reputation rank system that tracks the player's progress in exploring the nation. Likewise, each reputation system has an exclusive recipe at rank 7, and for Inazuma, this recipe is Butter Crab.
Butter Crab is technically classified as a defense-boosting dish, however, it has a unique quirk to its use. The dish increases a team's defense stat by a fixed amount, and also has the interesting effect of boosting healing effects by a percentage. In this way, it acts as an in-between of healing and defense, perfect for holding up healers that aren't fully built.
Chicken Tofu Pudding
- Category: ATK-Boosting Dishes
- Ingredients: 4 Fowl, 2 Ham, 2 Bird Egg, 1 Snapdragon
Every so often in Genshin Impact, players will receive rewards from quest rewards outside of Mora and Primogems. For the world quest, A Dish Beyond Mortal Ken, the player receives the recipe for Chicken Tofu Pudding.
Chicken Tofu Pudding is a fairly basic offensive dish, raising attack by a fixed amount and critical rate by 8%. This makes it a perfect dish for characters with high critical damage, but a low critical rate.
Chili-Mince Cornbread Buns
- Category: DEF-Boosting Dishes
- Ingredients: 4 Raw Meat, 2 Jueyun Chili, 3 Flour, 2 Cabbage
Some dishes can only be obtained via limited-time events in Genshin Impact. The recipe for Chili-Mince Cornbread Buns, sadly, can only be obtained during the Moonlight Merriment event in version 2.1. It will not be available again until the event occurs again if it does.
For Genshin Impact players that did have the opportunity to obtain the recipe, Chili-Mince Cornbread Buns make for a great defensive dish. The four-star food increases shield strength by 30%, as well as general defense by a fixed amount. This makes it a good booster for teams with shield users.
Golden Crab
- Category: DEF-Boosting Dishes
- Ingredients: 5 Bird Egg, 5 Flour, 4 Crab, 2 Salt
Golden Crab is one of the most common four-star food recipes in Genshin Impact. A defensive dish, t he recipe can be obtained through several routes: during Mona's story quest, bought from Xinyue Kiosk, or during the quest Pressing Deadlines.
Golden Crab makes for a very efficient defense booster, by increasing defense and healing effects by 8%. As such, the dish makes for a good, easy-to-obtain recipe to increase defense overall.
Golden Fried Chicken
- Category: ATK-Boosting Dishes
- Ingredients: 4 Fowl, 4 Butter, 3 Pepper, 2 Flour
Genshin Impact is not a stranger to crossover events, such as with Horizon Zero's Aloy, itself during Honkai Impact 3rd's Fischl event, and of course, with KFC. During Genshin Impact's collaboration with KFC, Golden Fried Chicken was offered as a limited-time recipe, so players will no longer be able to obtain it.
Golden Fried Chicken has similar boosters to Bountiful Year, increasing attack and crit rate. As such, Golden Fried Chicken makes for a good general offensive booster.
Jade Parcels
- Category: ATK-Boosting Dishes
- Ingredients: 3 Lotus Head, 2 Jueyun Chili, 2 Cabbage, 1 Ham
One of the first Liyue characters to be introduced in Genshin Impact, Xiangling's competition quest in Springvale introduced many players to their first four-star recipe. Jade Parcels can be obtained upon finishing Xiangling's quest in Springvale.
The four-star recipe makes for a good offensive booster. Jade Parcels increase attack by a fixed amount, as well as critical rate by 8%.
Meat Lovers' Mushroom Pizza
- Category: ATK-Boosting Dish
- Ingredients: 4 Raw Meat, 4 Flour, 3 Mushroom, 2 Cheese
The Meat Lovers’ Mushroom Pizza recipe is sent via Mail by Paimon back in version 3.0 along with other 3-Star recipes which are; Milky Mushroom Crisp Tower and Sunset Berry Tea. The meal offers an advantage in battles as the Pizza buffs attack and critical rate for the party members.
Meat Lovers’ Mushroom Pizza has basic ingredients as players can hunt animals to get Raw Meat or purchase it from any vendor in addition to Flour, Mushroom, and Cheese.