Recipes from Barefoot Contessa: Cook Like a Pro
In her new series, Ina Garten teaches the essential recipes and techniques every cook must know to achieve success in the kitchen. Browse through the recipes featured on the show and start cooking like a pro at home.
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Lemon Parmesan Chicken with Arugula Salad Topping
This easy chicken dish is Ina's favorite weeknight dinner. The crunchy coating on the chicken plays beautifully with the peppery arugula and lemony dressing.
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Anna's Tomato Tart
Layers of sliced tomatoes, an herb-garlic paste and Gruyere cheese make this tart irresistible. The crust is easy to make in the food processor. Blind baking it will ensure the product won't turn out soggy.
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Rigatoni with Sausage and Fennel
Fresh fennel and fennel seeds add a subtle licorice-like flavor to this pasta dish, enhancing the crumbled Italian sausage even more. Cream and white wine create a luxurious sauce.
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Roast Chicken with Radishes
Radishes lend a peppery bite to this effortless roast chicken recipe, Jeffrey's favorite Friday night dinner. Ina roasts the chicken at a high temperature to ensure crispy, browned skin — the best part of the bird.
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Orecchiette with Broccoli Rabe & Sausage
This easy, colorful pasta dish comes together in a snap but is fancy enough for a dinner party.
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Herbed Orzo with Feta
For the perfect pasta salad, Ina recommends using a small pasta shape like orzo, which is easy to eat and absorbs the lemon vinaigrette easily. Let the flavors meld at room temperature before serving.
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Ina's Homemade Vanilla Extract
“I think my favorite flavor of all is vanilla,” Ina reveals. “Not just any vanilla, good vanilla.” She uses three kinds in her baking: whole beans, a good-quality store bought extract and a jar of homemade extract that she started nearly 30 years ago. Read more: Ina's Favorite Flavor of All Time: The Good Vanilla
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Salty Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ina calls these cookies her favorite of all time. A light dusting of crunchy sea salt at the end highlights the big chunks of creamy chocolate.
Get the Recipe: Salty Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Chicken Thighs with Creamy Mustard Sauce
Ina uses two types of mustard to add deep flavor to this easy dish. It is good enough for company and quick enough for any weeknight.
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Maple Roasted Acorn Squash
Good maple syrup and a touch of flaked sea salt turn squash into a delicious side dish for fall.
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Oven-Baked Three-Cheese Sandwich
April Bloomfield's sandwich has a blend of manchego, fontina and goat cheese, all shredded and formed into a ball before being spread on slices of rustic bread. It comes out of the oven toasted, gooey and comforting.
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16 Bean Pasta e Fagiole
Ina amps up the classic Italian comfort stew with a 16-bean blend. For added thickness, she passes a small portion of the beans through a food mill, and cooks the ditalini directly in the tomato-based broth.
Get the Recipe: "16 Bean" Pasta e Fagioli
Truffled Chicken Liver Mousse
This elegant pate is perfect for entertaining. Ina's touch includes Cognac and white truffle butter, which not only enriches the flavor but also the texture. Serve with toast and cornichons.
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Roasted Salmon Tacos
To make serving these tacos easy, Ina roasts a whole center-cut salmon fillet, which she flakes into chunks before filling warmed tortillas. Spicy mashed avocados and cabbage slaw add lots of flavor and texture.
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Salted Caramel Nuts
Caramel may look scary to make — all that molten sugar, but when you follow Ina's recipe, you'll cook the perfect batch to use on these mixed nuts.
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Apple Pie Bars
Ina forgoes traditional apple pie by turning it into tasty dessert bars.
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Crusty Baked Shells and Cauliflower
A bit of sage adds an earthy flavor to this cauliflower and pasta bake that has creamy ricotta and stretchy fontina cheeses. Since you'll be baking it in the oven, make sure not to overcook the pasta shells.
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Garlic and Herb Roasted Shrimp
This oven-baked version of shrimp scampi is easy to make for dinner or even for a party appetizer. Serve with toasted bread for mopping up the garlic butter.
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Vanilla Rum Panna Cotta with Salted Caramel
Using good vanilla is essential when making this creamy dessert that, Ina says, "will make a grown man cry."
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Chicken and Spinach Waldorf Salad
Ina's interpretation of the Waldorf salad has raisins instead of grapes, and a honey, Dijon mustard and apple cider vinaigrette. The salad includes almonds, cashews and walnuts for added crunch. Top with wedges of soft-boiled eggs.
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Cider Roasted Pork Tenderloin
This recipe makes a weeknight dinner doable. Have the pork loins marinating in hard cider, maple syrup and spices in the fridge while you're at work. When you come home, dinner is just 20-25 minutes of roasting time away.
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Lemon Capellini
For the simplest weeknight meal, you can't go wrong with Ina's Lemon Capellini, which has three ingredients: pasta, butter and a lemon. Reserve some of the pasta water in case you need to thin the sauce.
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Souffle a L'Orange
Souffles may seem intimidating, but Ina dispels any fears with her recipe, which is flavored with orange liqueur, orange zest and vanilla. Follow her steps, and make sure not to open the oven door, and you'll be baking the perfect souffle, too.
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"Ice Cream" Sandwiches
Ina makes her version of the classic ice cream sandwich by using bakery-fresh peanut butter cookies, delicious peanut butter and fudge sorbet and crushed peanuts for texture.
Chocolate Ganache Cake
Find out how to make Ina's go-to chocolate cake.
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Caesar Salad with Blue Cheese and Bacon
Ina makes a tradtional Caesar dressing and serves it over a crisp romaine salad with soft-boiled eggs, crispy bacon and Roquefort cheese.
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Eggs Benedict and Easy Hollandaise Sauce
Ina makes use of her blender to make a classic hollandaise sauce in a snap and then serves it over perfectly poached eggs and prosciutto on a toasted English muffin.
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Pavlova Fruit Tart
The key to making a perfectly tender pavlova is to add the sugar very slowly.
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Perfect Scrambled Eggs
Very low heat and a bit of Ina magic go into her perfect scambled eggs. See how it's done.
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