Secrets of the Best Chefs

Stuffed Chicken Breasts ...

Serves 4 No one wants to eat a boring skinless chicken breast. Here is a ...

remedy. Buy chicken breasts with the skin on and stuff the space between the skin and the breast with a mixture that contains lo ...

motor running, add the cream. Add the spinach, ¾ teaspoon salt, fennel seeds, lemon zest, nutmeg, and ⅛ teaspoon pepper and blen ...

Kitchen Know-How. You can use frozen spinach here; just defrost it first. ...

French Apple Tart ...

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Serves 6 This stunning pinwheel of a dessert might intimidate you at first. Don’t let it. Essentially, you’re just making a piec ...

To make the pastry, blend the butter with the flour and salt in a cold bowl, using your fingertips to pinch the ingredients toge ...

wheel with a rose at the center (see photograph above). That means you want spokes of apples going toward the center, and then, ...

Marco Canora Chef-owner, Hearth New York, New York Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats; chef Marco Canora is ready to m ...

stabs it with that same spoon, spreading out the potato shreds and fanning them with a bench scraper (an essential gnocchi-makin ...

cooled potato with flour. (“Like a dusting of snow,” he says. “A single fine layer.”) Lean closer as he works that flour into th ...

“I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel.” ...

Canora’s Kitchen Know-How GARLIC AND PARSLEY together is one of the most classic Italian combinations. Chop the parsley first, t ...

Light-as-Air Potato Gnocchi Makes 3 or 4 dozen gnocchi* Rarely does the word “delicate” come into play when describing gnocchi, ...

This recipe isn’t so much a recipe as it is a technique, and the technique is all about getting the steam out of the gnocchi. Th ...

for up to 10 minutes*, until the potatoes are broken down into very small bits and cool to the touch. Use a bench scraper to fli ...

into a snake, the diameter of which will determine the size of the gnocchi. (Aim for ½ inch in diameter.) Continue rolling snake ...

Braciola (Rolled Beef with Garlic and Parsley Braised in Tomato Sauce) ...