Malayna is the hungry Horse God ofThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. When you first summon Malayna at his spring in North Akkala by offering him anEndura Carrot, he will joke about eating Link. But Malayna promises that there are other foods he prefers, and in exchange for them, he will increase your horse’s stats. He also has the power to bring a horse back from the dead if you give aRoasted Endura Carrot.
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Enhancing a horse’s Strength, Speed, Stamina, and Pull requires unique meals for each stat and star level. Malayna can raise every stat up to five stars, except for the oversized mounts Great White Stallion and Ganondorf’s Horse who cannot be buffed. In ascending order of the recipe’s complexity and star level raised, these dishes are essential to powering up your horses.
10Herb Sauté
Mix any vegetable, herb, or flower and Goron Spice in a Cooking Pot to makeHerb Sauté—Hyrule Herbis among some of the easiest wild greens to farm in the grass throughout Hyrule, though they do not yield any status effects likeSpicy PepperandArmoranthdo. To obtain the second ingredient, you can purchaseGoron Spicefrom the general store in Goron City.
Herb Sauté serves as a Stamina buff, increasing the number of speed boosts your horse has. These boosts are indicated in yellow at the bottom of the screen.
9Veggie Rice Balls
Veggie Rice Ballsare made of any vegetable, herb, or flower andHylian Rice. Common vegetable ingredients are Steambulb, Hylian Tomato, andSpicy Pepper. Meanwhile, you can harvest Hylian Rice by cutting the grass with a blade weapon in shallow ponds. Yet it is more convenient to buy Hylian Rice from traveling merchants and at shops, such as those in Hateno Village and Zora’s Domain.
Veggie Rice Balls are required to increase a horse’s Strength and Pull. The stronger the horse, the higher their HP and the more damage they can withstand.
8Glazed Veggies
Giving MalaynaGlazed Veggiescan raise your horse’s default Speed, so that the enhanced horse gallops faster when they are not using one of the speed boosts shown at the bottom of the screen.
The Glazed Veggies recipe calls forCourser Bee Honeyand any vegetable, herb, or flower. To find Courser Bee Honey, you must knock down a beehive from a tree. Careful: bees can come after you if you are too close, but hitting the bees with a weapon will scare the swarm away.
7Veggie Porridge
Veggie Porridgeincorporates three different ingredients:Fresh Milk,Hylian Rice, and any vegetable, herb, or flower. Fresh Milk is sold at the general store in Hateno Village. You can also obtain Fresh Milk from Dantz, who can be found at Hateno Pasture, by trading threeAcornsfor one bottle of Fresh Milk.
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Veggie Porridge has the dual purpose of upgrading both Stamina and Pull. When you use Ultrahand to attach the towing harness and a cart to your horse, the Pull stat enables the horse to pull more weight, more quickly. At Highland Stable, you’re able to participate in a cart race minigame by talking to Blyne. It helps to enter a horse with high Stamina and Pull stats to complete the course as quickly as possible.
6Copious Fried Wild Greens
Copious Fried Wild Greensis a combination of four unique vegetables, herbs, or flowers. There are many variations of Copious Fried Wild Greens, but one way to obtain the dish is by cookingSwift Carrot,Hyrule Herb,Blue Nightshade, andSilent Princess. Another variation is oneMighty Thistle,Hearty Radish,Fortified Pumpkin, andElectric Safflina. you may forage these ingredients all over Hyrule or buy them from various vendors.
Malayna loves his greens. He requests Copious Fried Wild Greens to enhance a horse’s Strength, Stamina, and Pull, making the veggie dish of the most versatile recipes.
5Vegetable Risotto
To upgrade your horse’s Stamina, you can cookVegetable RisottofromGoat Butter,Hylian Rice,Rock Salt, and any carrot or pumpkin. Rock Salt can bemined from ore deposits in various cavesand near mines or purchased in Goron City. Meanwhile, Goat Butter can only be bought from traveling merchants and at general stores towns like Hateno Village and Rito Village.
Each vegetable gives the meal a unique effect: for example, using aSwift Carrotas an ingredient results in a Hasty Vegetable Risotto with a Speed Up bonus. While Malayna asks for Vegetable Risotto, he will accept Tough and Hasty Vegetable Risottos.
4Vegetable Curry
You can cookVegetable CurrywithHylian Rice,Goron Spice, and any vegetable. Possible vegetable ingredients are Steambulbs,Swift Carrots, andFortified Pumpkins. Just as Malayna accepts different variations of Vegetable Risotto, so too he will take Energizing, Hasty, or Tough Vegetable Curry.
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The Horse God needs multiple meals to be satiated, so to raise a horse’s Strength from four to five stars, he might ask for three curries, along with three servings of two other strengthening meals, such asHot Buttered AppleandCarrot Cake.
3Cream Of Vegetable Soup
Cream of Vegetable Soupis key to maxing out a horse’s Stamina and Pull stats. This soup is a savory blend ofFresh Milk,Rock Salt, and any plant, excluding carrots and pumpkins.Cool Safflina,Warm Safflina,Sundelion,Silent Princess,Blue Nightshade,Mighty Thistle, andArmoranthare all acceptable ingredients.
Cooking Fresh Milk and Rock Salt with aSwift Carrot,Endura Carrot, orFortified Pumpkininstead of a wild plant results in Veggie Cream Soup, which Malayana also requests to upgrade your horse’s Speed and Pull.
2Carrot Cake
To end on a sweet note, the Horse God asks forCarrot Caketo max out a horse’s Strength. Upgrading an ordinary horse will give them as much HP as the two Giant Horses, so that the enhanced horse can survive a great deal of damage in combat.
The ingredients for Carrot Cake areGoat Butter,Cane Sugar,Tabantha Wheat, and any carrot. You can purchase Cane Sugar from the shops in Rito Village and Goron City, while you can get Tabantha Wheat by either farming it in the Tabantha grasslands or buying it at the general store in Rito Village or Gerudo Town.
1Apple Pie
You don’t need an oven to bakeApple Pie. Simply tossGoat Butter,Cane Sugar,Tabantha Wheat, and any apple into a lit Cooking Pot. You can pick apples from the trees in villages and forests across Hyrule. Either a classic redAppleor a rareGolden Applewill do, but you might want to save your Golden Apples for health-recovery dishes.
Malayna requests multiple servings of this final dessert to increase your horse’s Speed. After offering up Apple Pie, you and your horse can swiftly gallop across Hyrule Field at max speed. Yeehaw.
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