Recipes By Ina Garten
9 recipes found
Ina Garten’s Perfect Roast Chicken
This recipe, from my first book “The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook” (Clarkson Potter, 1999), is my husband’s favorite Friday night dinner ... It’s a tradition with us. He has to drive 3½ hours to get home every weekend, and there’s nothing like the smell of a fresh roast chicken to make him feel that the trip was worth it. Of course, I would never tell him that it is also the world’s easiest dinner. I love to get the chickens at the Iaconos’ farm in East Hampton.
Ina Garten’s Pumpkin Mousse Tart
This dessert, featured in “Barefoot Contessa Family Style” (Clarkson Potter, 2002), was inspired by a pumpkin mousse that my mother had made for years for Thanksgiving. It’s lighter and much more flavorful than that cloying old pumpkin pie. People really do go nuts for it.
Ina Garten’s Make-Ahead Roast Turkey and Gravy With Onions and Sage
One of the most stressful things about Thanksgiving is the turkey: timing it, carving it, keeping it hot. As I mentioned in my book “Make It Ahead” (Clarkson Potter, 2014), I discovered that I could roast the turkey early in the day, carve it and arrange it on a layer of gravy on an oven-to-table platter. It changed my Thanksgiving game plan. I prepare the platter, set it aside at room temperature, then reheat it all before dinner. Delicious turkey without the stress!
Cranberry Martinis
For a delicious and festive holiday drink you can make quickly, simply combine the ingredients in advance and shake them up when guests arrive.
Ina Garten’s Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie
This is a classic Kentucky Derby Pie in half the time. I tested this recipe with both homemade pie crust and store-bought pie crust and amazingly, the store-bought was better. The homemade pie crust was too rich for the filling. Be sure you buy a regular pie crust, not a shallow one, so the filling doesn’t overflow.
Chunky Cranberry Sauce
Of course, you could buy fresh cranberries and clean them carefully, but if you start with canned whole berry cranberry sauce and add some fresh ingredients, it will taste just as good!
Mushroom and Gruyère Bread Pudding
Bread pudding is my go-to alternative to traditional stuffing, which tends to dry out your turkey. To make bread pudding, you need to dice the bread, season it and bake it until the cubes are nicely toasted. Here, I start with Pepperidge Farm Herb Seasoned cubed stuffing mix — be sure to buy the cubed mix! — and then add lots of fresh ingredients. Delicious bread pudding in half the time!
Parmesan Smashed Potatoes
My friend Antonia Bellanca taught me this old fashioned recipe, which I featured in “The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook” (Clarkson Potter, 1999). These are simple, flavorful and come together quickly. Use an electric mixer and don’t peel the potatoes!
Parmesan Mashed Potatoes
Mashed potatoes are an essential Thanksgiving side dish but can be time consuming. Instead of starting with raw potatoes, then peeling, cutting and boiling them, start with these prepared potatoes and no one will know you didn’t make the dish from scratch. I tested many varieties of prepared mashed potatoes and Bob Evans refrigerated potatoes were the best.