Soup/Stew

If gochujang hasn’t made it to your pantry yet, you can use any miso.

This chicken and rice soup has everything we're craving, plus a big handful of crushed peanuts on top.

A restorative, Japanese-inspired chicken soup with only 10 ingredients.

Cornmeal thickens this soup and gives it a silky texture, and the combination of smoky andouille and greens packs in more flavor than you could imagine from a one-hour recipe cook time.

If you’re not following our weekly meal plan and not making the Grilled Cheese (though you really should; it’s delightful), which you need wheat bread for, use country loaf or sourdough bread, crusts removed, for optimal breadcrumbs for this chicken stew recipe. Check out step-by-step photos here.

It’ll take a couple of hours to make the homemade broth and cook a whole chicken (your house will smell amazing) for this soup recipe. If you’ve had a long day, use 2 quarts store-bought broth and shredded meat from a rotisserie chicken. Whatever method you choose, use the chicken breasts to make this amazing salad with crispy rice. Check out step-by-step photos here.

If you don’t happen to have or particularly enjoy pastrami, bacon or pancetta would be a delicious substitute for this minestrone recipe. Check out step-by-step photos here.

Not a big fan of chorizo? This chili recipe can also be made with chicken, turkey, or Italian sweet or spicy sausage.

Bacon and cream gild this ultra-rich corn chowder recipe, but it easily goes vegetarian if you want it to.

A cool green zingy soup; pack it in a thermos on ice and take it picnicking or to the beach.

This riff on a classic cassoulet skips most of the exotic ingredients and elaborate preparation but still delivers deep rich flavor.

Puntarelle refers to the bitter inner stalks of the Catalonian chicory (Belgian endive and radicchio are close cousins). Reserve the white stalks for another use—they’re great in a crunchy salad.

For this butternut squash soup recipe, you need to toss the squash occasionally while it’s roasting so it doesn’t burn or stick, and to encourage as much caramelization as possible.

This fragrant sauce calls for a mix of dried spices. If the ones you’ve got in the pantry smell musty or you can’t remember when you bought them, restock.

The only slow cooker chili recipe you need. This recipe can also be easily doubled.

Roasting brings out the sweetness of canned tomatoes, but this method works with fresh tomatoes, too. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.

For a beautiful creamy-white (not khaki) color, don’t let the leeks and celery take on any color when sautéing.

Blanching the spinach before blending helps this broccoli soup recipe retain a vibrant green color. Parsley would work in place of the cilantro.

Gigante beans are our favorites, but almost any bean will be delicious this way. 

Three kinds of dried chiles add just the right amount of smoky heat when you cook this best beef chili recipe, and three cuts of beef deliver robust flavor. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.