Category: Soups
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Ben’s Legendary Green Chile Stew
A video tutorial is located at the end of this video! This is the most delicious of all stews. A regional specialty of New Mexico, the favored chiles for this stew come from farms near the town of Hatch. If they are not available in your area, you can buy them online fresh in season,…
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MasterChef Pork Butt Chili
This recipe is meant to be made in a pressure cooker, which reduces the cooking time to 1 hour (or so). True chili purists will want to make this in an enameled cast iron Dutch oven, and home chefs without either one can feel free to make it in the biggest pot you have. Follow…
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French Onion Soup
This seems to be everyone’s favorite soup. From the instant that I posted on Facebook and Twitter tonight that I was making French Onion Soup for dinner, I had over 20 requests for the recipe. In France, one of the first things a chef learns to master is onion soup. It’s such a simple soup…
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Caribbean-style Pumpkin Soup
I was asked to develop a good pumpkin soup recipe for Le Cordon Bleu culinary school, while I was filming cooking demonstrations for them to promote their MasterChef Enthusiast Classes which are geared toward the home cook. I wanted to develop something new that I had never heard of, and they wanted me to emphasize…
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Potato Onion Soup
Potato leek soup is really one of the most delicious yet simple things on earth. But we can’t always find leeks year round, and they’re typically pretty expensive. AND, they can be downright impossible to clean, with all the grit that accumulates between their layers. (And when you wash out that grit, you wash away…
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Curried Pumpkin Soup
Soup is my favorite food. Pumpkin is my favorite ingredient. So naturally, I love pumpkin soups. Here is a foundational pumpkin soup recipe that I make all year long, and people can’t get enough of it. I first had this soup on a cruise ship in 1998, which is really the first time my pallate…
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Tom Kha Gai (Thai coconut lemongrass soup)
This is my favorite soup. From the first moment I tasted this soup in Thailand, I was dumbfounded by the flavors. It was so rich, so spicy, so tangy. Every time I eat it, I’m reminded of the time I was stranded in a cave in Thailand with my friend Ricky and two other backpackers…