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Affordable Star Chef Recipes

By Food & Wine
Updated February 27, 2017
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Whole Grilled Chicken with Wilted Arugula
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These fantastic recipes include star chef Mario Batali's cheese-filled chicken thighs and Jacques Pépin's favorite pound cake.
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Spicy Chicken Cacciatore

Spicy Chicken Cacciatore
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The Dish: Although this Italian standard has suffered at the hands of lesser chefs, Barbara Lynch redeems it. She ably deconstructs what is often a heavy sauce into its vivid components: bright red strips of bell pepper, sweet slices of onion, hot pickled peppers and fresh chopped tomatoes.

The Cost: about $2.75 per serving

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Honey Mustard Chicken

Honey Mustard Chicken
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You haven't really had an authentic Southern restaurant experience until you've had meat-and-three—a choice of meat plus three vegetable side dishes. Here, Bobby Flay bakes chicken—the centerpiece of many a meat-and-three—with a sticky sweet-and-spicy honey glaze inspired by the Savannah Bee Company's tupelo honey.

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Quick Chicken-and-Cheese Tamales

Quick Chicken-and-Cheese Tamales
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The Dish:F&W's Grace Parisi mixes store-bought rotisserie chicken and cheddar cheese into a quick dough, then she wraps the tamales in plastic before steaming them.

The Cost: about $3.40 per serving

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Meat Loaf with Red Wine Glaze

Meat Loaf with Red Wine Glaze
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Use leftover red wine as the glaze on Shea Gallante's meat loaf, which caramelizes as it bakes.

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Quinoa Salad with Pickled Radishes and Feta

Quinoa Salad with Grilled Scallions, Favas and Dates
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The Dish: Giuseppe Tentori's quinoa salad is a delightful mix of cucumber, thin green beans, parsley and feta. What makes it special is that Tentori pickles the radishes in red wine vinegar and sugar before tossing them into the salad, where they add a puckery crunch.

The Cost: about $2.33 per serving

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Marja's Mac and Cheese

Marja's Mac-and-Cheese
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten is so fond of his wife Marja's ultrarich mac and cheese that it appears on the menu at the Mercer Kitchen, one of his New York restaurants.

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Crispy Buttermilk Fried Chicken

Crispy Buttermilk Fried Chicken
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With this buttermilk-soaked version, F&W’s Grace Parisi has perfected fried chicken.

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Tortilla Española

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Mario Batali's version is baked until golden brown and offers an especially high ratio of potatoes to eggs.

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Ham, Escarole and Bean Stew

Ham, Escarole and Bean Stew
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Bacon and ham add a great smoky flavor to canned white beans in this hearty, easy stew by Jose Garces.

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Jacques Pépin's Favorite Pound Cake

Jacques Pépin's Favorite Pound Cake
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The French call pound cake quatre-quarts ("four-fourths") because it is made with equal parts flour, sugar, eggs and butter.

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Hung's Clay Pot Rice

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Top Chef winner Hung Huynh uses ginger, garlic and scallions to flavor his earthy, mushroom-and-bacon-studded clay pot rice.

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Braised Chicken Legs with Green Olives

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Braising chicken in a liquid that combines onions, carrots, bacon and olives creates complex flavor relatively quickly.

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Herb-and-Cheese-Filled Chicken Thighs

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The Dish: These stuffed chicken thighs by star chef Mario Batali are filled with fresh bread crumbs and melty provolone cheese.

The Cost: about $3.68 per serving

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Lemony Chickpea Salad

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Serve Tom Colicchio's fresh-tasting chickpea salad with warm, soft pita bread to soak up the olive oil dressing.

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Whole Grilled Chicken with Wilted Arugula

Whole Grilled Chicken with Wilted Arugula
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"I don't care if you're sophisticated, with a boatload of money," says superstar chef Thomas Keller, "roasted chicken makes you feel wonderful."

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    1 of 15 Spicy Chicken Cacciatore
    2 of 15 Honey Mustard Chicken
    3 of 15 Quick Chicken-and-Cheese Tamales
    4 of 15 Meat Loaf with Red Wine Glaze
    5 of 15 Quinoa Salad with Pickled Radishes and Feta
    6 of 15 Marja's Mac and Cheese
    7 of 15 Crispy Buttermilk Fried Chicken
    8 of 15 Tortilla Española
    9 of 15 Ham, Escarole and Bean Stew
    10 of 15 Jacques Pépin's Favorite Pound Cake
    11 of 15 Hung's Clay Pot Rice
    12 of 15 Braised Chicken Legs with Green Olives
    13 of 15 Herb-and-Cheese-Filled Chicken Thighs
    14 of 15 Lemony Chickpea Salad
    15 of 15 Whole Grilled Chicken with Wilted Arugula

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