Ragout
Mixed Mushroom Ragout
Stephanie Izard's rich, chunky mushroom ragout is great on everything from seared halibut to sauteed scallops and pasta. Use vegetable stock instead of chicken stock for a great vegan sauce.
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Creamy Polenta with Wild Mushroom Ragout
If you don't want to buy four different herbs for the polenta, you can use just one or two, keeping the overall amounts the same.
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Root Vegetable, Pear and Chestnut Ragout
This ragout--slightly sweet and not too rich--is a wonderful mix of winter vegetables and fruit and an excellent accompaniment to chef John Besh's Horseradish-and-Herb-Crusted Beef Rib Roast.
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Lamb Chops with Vegetable Ragout
Chefs at haute couture restaurants often use the most expensive cuts of meat: Consider chef Wayne Nish's Loin of Colorado Lamb with Five Herbs, Summer Truffles and Late Summer Vegetable Pistou. To make the dish more accessible, we swapped lamb chops for the more costly boneless lamb loin and streamlined the complicated preparation as well.
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Ragout of Chicken with Potatoes and Chorizo
Buying whole chickens and cutting them up at home isn't just economical; it also yields trimmings that make the sauce extra flavorful.
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Ragout of Clams with Spinach, Sausage and Orzo
This one-dish meal has it all: rich Italian sausage (meat), briny clams (seafood), leafy greens (vegetable) and rice-like pasta (starch) to soak up the delicious juices.
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蔬菜蔬菜炖肉与Fresh Herbs
这道菜的灵感来自于时间厨师耶利米Tower spent cooking with culinary genius Richard Olney in France. No better appreciation of vegetables can be found than in Olney's bookSimple French Food, Tower says. The vegetable combination here is only one of many, though Tower never uses more than seven vegetables and never uses tomatoes unless they are sweet cherry tomatoes.
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Rabbit Ragout with Soppressata and Pappardelle
Tom Colicchio learned to cook using Jacques Pepin's 1976La Techniqueand 1979La Methode. The books' lessons came in handy during an apprenticeship at the Hotel de France in Gascony, in southwest France. One morning, Colicchio showed up for work after a long night of drinking. "The chef took one look at me, said 'I have a job for you' and pointed at a box with a big, dead hare in it. Luckily, Jacques had written about prepping rabbit, so I knew what to do." Colicchio (an F&W Best New Chef 1991) perfected the dish below when he was working at Manhattan's Gramercy Tavern, braising the tender rabbit with sweet tomatoes, spicy soppressata and olives.