Creamy Sausage Tortellini Soup
Creamy Sausage Tortellini Soup is the ultimate comfort food. The recipe features sweet potatoes, spinach, garlic, and three-cheese tortellini – all smothered in a creamy delicious broth. This one-pot meal takes only 40 minutes to make and requires minimal cleanup as only one pan is used! Perfect dinner for busy weeknights!
Frank de Carlo’s Black Chickpea Soup
The keys to this primitive yet celebratory Italian soup are the black chickpeas and the meaty bones. The soup — Umbrian in origin — contains animal products in three forms, and each one is used judiciously and beautifully. You start by browning meaty bones of veal or pork, in olive oil, of course. (Frank […]
Traditional French Cassoulet
Creamy, flavor-packed beans with meltingly tender nubs of pork belly and sausage and poultry that falls off the bone in moist shreds, all in a rich, sticky liquid that drinks like liquid pork. A meaty stew of poultry, sausage, pork, and beans, all under a rich, dark brown crust.This is the kind of fare […]
Creamy Chicken, Wild Rice, and Mushroom Soup
A warm and creamy mushroom, chicken and wild rice soup that is down right one of the best comfort food around!I certainly have been enjoying making a lot of soups lately and my favourite has to be this creamy mushroom chicken and wild rice soup which is a combination of two amazing soups, cream […]
Southwest Smoked Turkey and Black Bean Soup
Made with a creamy, spicy broth, smoked turkey, corn, peppers, and black beans, this Creamy Turkey Soup is full of flavor and just what you need.
Mimi’s Italian Fish Stew
My grandmother, MiMi, passed down some lovely Italian recipes that my family still enjoys today like this simple, delicious and classic fish stew — aka Mimi’s Italian Fish Stew! Over the years, I’ve made my own personal touches to the recipe, but its essence is still captured in each bowl of this easy-to-make soup. It’s […]
Roasted Leek and White Bean Soup
Friend of The Bean and Rancho Gordo pal, Arnab Chaladar, helps us out with Indian-inspired bean dishes (and good whisky recommendations on his My Annoying Opinions blog), but here he goes for something simple and classic, perfect for soup season.
Chicken Tikka Masala
Chicken Tikka Masala is a classic curried dish with soft, tender chunks of char-grilled chicken, simmered briefly in a delicious & super aromatic tikka masala gravy. The dish is comprised of two components – chicken tikka, and the masala, which is the gravy or sauce in which the tikkas are simmered.The word tikka literally means […]
Chicken Paprikash
Spices lose their flavor over time but few as quickly as paprika, which starts out tasting of pepper and sunshine but deteriorates in but a few months to sawdust and bitterness. For this recipe, get some new at the market: sweet or hot Hungarian paprika is best, but the generic article isn’t terrible and the […]
Butter Chicken
Butter chicken is inherently delicious—even in its most streamlined and simplified form, it's tasty. But with just a little more effort, it becomes superlative. The goal of this recipe is to hit all the characteristic notes of butter chicken—mildly spiced tomato-based sauce; tender, charred chicken pieces; a mother’s love’s worth of butter and cream folded […]
Woodman’s-Style Clam Chowder
After tasting the award-winning New England clam chowder at the immensely popular Woodman's of Essex in Massachusetts, we wanted to see if we could bring a recipe inspired by their version to home kitchens everywhere. At Woodman's, the team uses freshly shucked clams, relying on the quality of those bivalves to set their chowder apart. […]
Mulligatawny Soup
Mulligatawny is a classic Indian recipe whose name originates from the Tamil words miḷagu, and taṇṇi; literally, "pepper-water". It’s still incredibly popular in India and has spread throughout western Europe and into the United States.While this soup has been adapted to include more ingredients, at its heart it is simple and delicious and definitely a […]
Greek-Style Baked White Beans in Tomato Sauce (Gigantes Plaki)
Gigantes plaki, or Gigante beans baked in tomato sauce, is a Greek classic. The delicious version we tasted at Manousakis Winery on the island of Crete had us eager to re-create the dish ourselves. But we quickly learned that dried Gigante beans, a type of large, white runner bean—they are not lima beans, contrary to […]
Billy Parisi’s Coq Au Vin
Coq au vin translates from French to English as a rooster in wine. While roosters are a little hard to find in America, the female hen is most often used in this recipe here. The process of this recipe is marinated and seared chicken that is then braised with vegetables in wine and stock.
One-Pot Chicken Jardinière
We wanted to retain all the elegance and refinement of this classic light braise of chicken and vegetables while dispensing with traditional time-consuming steps such as breaking down a whole chicken and making stock. So we started by browning bone-in chicken pieces, which helped build a rich base for the sauce; peppery pancetta, onion, and […]
Short Rib Beef Stroganoff
Today we make the beef stroganoff recipe that I wish my mom made me as a kid. Beef stroganoff was always a little bland but anything over noodles I love. We fix all the issues today by using the braising technique and instead of using steak, we use short ribs and some high-quality mushrooms. […]