Recipe Archive

Soups & Stews

Soups and stews reward patience, seasoning, and structure. Browse bowls that build flavor through stock, aromatics, legumes, vegetables, seafood, and slow-cooked meats.

1296 recipes

Culinary Explorer

A cooking platform built around craft, culture, and the stories behind what we eat.

Discover Culinary Explorer

Recipes

Bouillabaisse à la Marseillaise

Chef Juliette

Bouillabaisse à la Marseillaise

Marseille's great fish stew, saffron-gold and garlic-scented, proves that a hard boil can be the careful choice: it binds olive oil into broth before the whole pot meets bread.

Waterzoi

Chef Juliette

Waterzoi

Waterzoi asks fresh, bone-in river fish to thicken its own buttery broth, with parsley root and pepper for company. No flour, no stockpot, just a brisk simmer watched closely.

Queue de Bœuf en Hochepot

Chef Juliette

Queue de Bœuf en Hochepot

Queue de Bœuf en Hochepot gathers oxtail, pig's trotter and ear, cabbage, roots, and grilled chipolatas around a clear, gelatin-rich broth whose quiet simmer keeps every piece tender and distinct.

Daube Chaude à la Provençale

Chef Juliette

Daube Chaude à la Provençale

Beef shoulder larded with bacon, sharpened by red wine and vinegar, then sealed with garlic, vegetables, and dry lemon peel until the low oven turns it yielding and the gravy darkly glossy.

Carbonnades à la Flamande

Chef Juliette

Carbonnades à la Flamande

Beef shoulder and browned onions layered under old lambic, brown stock, and roux, then braised until the beer turns glossy and bittersweet: Flanders’ patient lesson in building a sauce.

Goulash de Bœuf à la Hongroise

Chef Juliette

Goulash de Bœuf à la Hongroise

Beef, onions, paprika, tomatoes, and potatoes braised until tender, then reduced almost dry. The lesson is restraint: water starts the braise, but it must not remain as soup.

Blanquette de Veau à l’Ancienne

Chef Juliette

Blanquette de Veau à l’Ancienne

The great white stew teaches restraint: veal kept pale, a roux cooked without color, and a yolk-cream liaison folded in off the heat. Never boil after, and the sauce stays satin-smooth.

Blanquette de Veau aux Céleris, Cardons, etc.

Chef Juliette

Blanquette de Veau aux Céleris, Cardons, etc.

Veal and cardoon, celery, or endive share one pale simmer, then return beneath a glossy liaison of cream and yolk: a generous blanquette whose vegetable gives the white sauce its character.

Blanquette de Veau aux Nouilles

Chef Juliette

Blanquette de Veau aux Nouilles

Veal poached without browning, an ivory liaison kept below the boil, and fresh noodles in two buttered textures: soft, coherent heaps below and crisp, quickly tossed strands above.

Fricassée de Veau

Chef Juliette

Fricassée de Veau

Veal stiffened gently in butter without a trace of colour, floured in the pan, and simmered with mushrooms and onions before egg yolks and cream turn its white sauce silken.

Sautés de Veau

Chef Juliette

Sautés de Veau

Sautés de Veau turns breast and shoulder into a generous stew by teaching one essential rhythm: brown the pieces deeply, simmer them barely, and add the garnish only when the meat is nearly tender.

Sauté de Veau à la Marengo

Chef Juliette

Sauté de Veau à la Marengo

Sauté de Veau à la Marengo turns hard-browned veal, white wine, tomato, and Espagnole into a glossy braise, then brings glazed onions, mushrooms, parsley, and crisp heart-shaped croûtons to the table.

Sauté de Veau Chasseur

Chef Juliette

Sauté de Veau Chasseur

Sauté de Veau Chasseur turns deep-browned veal, brown stock, tomato, and Chasseur Sauce (Escoffier’s Method) (No. 33) into a glossy braise, proving that fond and gentle heat do the real work.

Sauté de Veau Printanier

Chef Juliette

Sauté de Veau Printanier

Veal browned in butter, braised gently in brown stock and demi-glace, then reunited with tender new roots, peas, and diamond-cut beans: spring in one pot, built in careful stages.

Sauté de Veau à la Catalane

Chef Juliette

Sauté de Veau à la Catalane

A southern classical sauté where tender veal meets tomato, butter-glazed onions, mushrooms, chestnuts, and chipolata, all bound by a Marengo sauce reduced until it gleams.

Sautés de Veau Divers

Chef Juliette

Sautés de Veau Divers

Sautés de veau divers turns one sound method into five suppers: bronze the veal, preserve the fond, simmer gently, then choose mushrooms, fines herbes, aubergine, tomato, or curry.

Daube à l’Avignonnaise

Chef Juliette

Daube à l’Avignonnaise

Red-wine mutton, larded with bacon and sealed beneath more bacon, onion, rind, and orange peel, cooks five quiet hours until the daube turns spoon-tender and its sauce shines deep garnet.

Haricot de Mouton

Chef Juliette

Haricot de Mouton

Mutton browned to a frizzled coat, bacon and onions colored in lard, then white beans folded through a garlic-scented sauce: a thrifty braise whose depth comes from fond, flour, and patience.

Irish Stew

Chef Juliette

Irish Stew

Mutton, potato, and onion are layered raw, barely moistened, and cooked gently until the meat yields and the potato becomes its own liaison: a plain pot whose discipline lies in proportion and patience.

Navarin Printanier

Chef Juliette

Navarin Printanier

Mutton, spring vegetables, and a pinch of sugar teach the architecture of navarin: brown deeply, let caramel colour the flour-bound sauce, then braise slowly until meat and garden meet in one glossy pot.

The Preparation of Clarified Consommé for Clear Soups

Chef Juliette

The Preparation of Clarified Consommé for Clear Soups

A clear soup lesson in one pot: lean beef, egg white, and roasted chicken bones rise into a raft, gathering every cloudy particle while the consommé holds at the barest tremble beneath.

Ordinary Royale

Chef Juliette

Ordinary Royale

Royale ordinaire turns clear consommé and chervil into a tender, jewel-cut custard: gentle heat keeps it silken, full cooling keeps every diamond neat, and one small mould serves four bowls beautifully.

Deslignac or Cream Royale

Chef Juliette

Deslignac or Cream Royale

Thin cream, one egg, and six yolks meet the gentlest bain-marie, setting into an ivory crème royale that trembles under the spoon and teaches the whole discipline of custard.

Chicken Royale

Chef Juliette

Chicken Royale

Royale de volaille turns cooked chicken, cold béchamel, cream, and eggs into a silken savory custard, gently poached, cut into pale diamonds, and floated in clear consommé.

Where cooking meets culture.

Culinary guides, cultural storytelling, and the editorial depth that makes cooking meaningful.

Discover Culinary Explorer