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  4. Everyday Gourmet: Cooking with Vegetables

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Everyday Gourmet: Cooking with Vegetables

Series: Great Courses
4.6
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Episodes
24
Rating
TVPG
Year
2016
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses

About

From main dishes to cocktails to desserts, The Everyday Gourmet: Cooking with Vegetables reveals how you can prepare fresher, more vibrant food at home. Across 24 step-by-step lessons, Chef Bill Briwa - an award-winning Professor of Culinary Arts at the esteemed Culinary Institute of America- provides the expert insight you need to make vegetables a focal point of your meals, with or without meat.

Related Subjects

  • Educational
  • Food & Cooking

Episodes

1. Colorful Carrots

30m

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Hear the case for cooking and creating with vegetables, then watch as Chef Briwa prepares savory and surprising dishes starring carrots, including carrot osso buco; carrot tartare; simmered baby carrots in butter sauce; and burnt carrot salad with goat cheese, arugula, and garlic chips.

2. Summer Squashes

30m

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Learn how to select and cook summer squash in unexpected and satisfying ways, with a lesson featuring light, flavorful vegetarian recipes, including summer squash pasta studded with pecorino, almonds, tomatoes and garlic; grilled zucchini; roast zucchini lasagna with parmesan crisps; and pickled zucchini.

3. Winter Squashes

30m

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Sweeter and denser than summer squash, winter squash takes well to seasonings and satisfies in everything from soups to desserts. Learn how to select a squash and follow recipes for butternut squash carpaccio; spicy butternut squash with coconut milk soup, a variation on tom kha gai; and maple custard in a pumpkin.

4. Inflorescents

30m

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Delve into recipes showcasing inflorescents - vegetables that also happen to be flowers - including cauliflower, broccoli, broccolini, squash blossoms, Romanesco broccoli, and broccoli rabe. Learn how to make two vegetarian dishes, cauliflower shawarma with tahini yogurt sauce and braised artichoke and potato stew, in addition to broccoli rabe with orecchiette and sausage.

5. Marvelous Mushrooms

30m

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How do mushrooms differ from other vegetables? Here, Chef Briwa highlights the unique properties of mushrooms and the flavor and textural variances found in varieties from shitake to crimini. Then, watch as he creates two dishes bursting with umami: a vegetable pot pie and tamales filled with maitake, trumpet royale, and button mushrooms.

6. Salad Greens and Lettuces

30m

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Discover how to store, wash, dry, and revive salad greens to make satisfying dishes, including a simple butter lettuce salad; tomato, arugula, and mozzarella salad with pesto dressing; kale salad with tapenade and pecorino; hot bacon-wrapped endive salad with fingerling potatoes; parsley salad with garlic and parmesan; and bacon and egg salad.

7. Field Greens and Cooking Greens

30m

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Discover how tasty nutrient powerhouses like kale, chard, mustard greens, and even "weeds" like dandelion and purslane can be when seasoned and cooked properly. Learn how to make the Greek dish, horta, featuring a mix of "braising greens"; mustard green salad with prosciutto; and gnocchi with spinach and pancetta.

8. Root Vegetables

30m

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Turn your attention to versatile, inexpensive root vegetables with this lesson on how to select, store, and cook carrots, celery root, and parsnips. Watch as Chef Briwa prepares crudités with tapenade; parsnip chips; celery root tonkatsu with rice and napa cabbage salad; and carrot cake with a parsnip-infused icing.

9. Alliums

30m

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Take the mystery out of preparing onions, leeks, garlic, and shallots with recipes including a classic onion soup topped with croutons and gruyère; leek pizza with potatoes, teleme cheese, and truffle oil; an appetizer of roasted garlic and cambazola cheese on crostini; and baby leek salad.

10. Fruits Masquerading as Vegetables

30m

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Turn your attention toward fruit that we commonly think of as vegetables, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, and summer squash. Begin with a look at heirloom tomatoes, then learn how to prepare simple dishes bursting with flavor, including Catalan toast, caprese salad with burrata, stuffed tomatoes, and tabouleh salad.

Extended Details

  • SeriesGreat Courses
  • Closed CaptionsEnglish

Artists

Bill BriwaWriter
Bill BriwaActor