Braise main dish recipes

Elephant soup

This adaptation of the famous African Elephant Soup is wonderfully delicious, aromatic and satisfying.

Slow Cooker Polenta with Sausage Ragù

Making polenta the old-fashioned way is a laborious job, as we all know, involving a lot of stirring over a…

Atlanta Brisket

Atlanta Brisket is a braised, southern dish featuring boxed onion soup mix, ketchup, and Atlanta’s own Coca-Cola. In this recipe I replaced the…

Risotto alla crema di scampi (Risotto with Shrimp Cream)

As I have mentioned before, Rome is not really risotto country. But there is at least one risotto dish that…

Salmon With Lentils

I love salmon and beans !! I adapted this recipe from "Fit Over 40". They use "frexseed", but I didn't...

Beef pastissada with gnocchi

Croatian beef pastissada is a tender, mouthwatering specialty.

Rajoes Cominho Lemony Portuguese pork stew

The Portuguese would serve this stew with freshly-baked bread and spiced, fried potatoes but it also goes well…

«Polpetielli» affogati (Baby Octopus Braised in Tomato Sauce)

Octopus is a popular food all around the Mediterranean basin and yet elsewhere it is often, for some reason,…

Brisket a la Carbonnade

Braised Veal Chops

Dakbokkeum Tang (Spicy Chicken Stew)

We have been making dakdoritang (aka dakbokkeum tang) for quite a while now, but it has become a regular in our…

Chicken Chilindron

I was reading a biography of Fransisco de Goya Spain's most important Artist of the late 18th and Early 19th Century - in which the artist describes…

Braised Short Ribs with Vegetables

I absolutely love the mouthwatering taste of short ribs. This preparation, which has a richly flavored gravy…

Lamb Shanks with Orzo and Vegetables

A delicious Mediterranean one pot wonder meal that combines a tomato base with orzo pasta, veggies, and lamb…

Lemon Chicken Breasts (Ina Garten)

This recipe comes from Ina Garten's most recent cookbook 'How Easy Is That?" She's right. This is a very…