2,077 bay leaf recipes

Lou Pastis en Pott, the classic Languedoc potted meat: beef and pork slow-cooked in red wine with juniper, sealed under lard, and built up over weeks. Traditional French preservation cooking.

Lean 7-ingredient chili con carne with cooked ground beef, beans, tomato sauce, and chili powder simmered for 30 minutes. A fast, freezer-friendly weeknight dinner.

A succulent and scrumptious pot roast that is simmered to perfection with onions, carrots, tomatoes and dry red wine.

Making your own chicken stock may take some time, but when you taste one tablespoonful afterwards, you will feel it's well worth the effort.

A well loved chicken soup of Brazilian, Portuguese, Cape Verdean cuisine. Classic Brazilian chicken and rice soup recipe much loved.

Traditional Irish baked herring stuffed with lemony breadcrumbs and braised in hard cider. A rustic, hearty supper that brings the taste of coastal Ireland to your table.

Freezer mix barley soup made with beef-mushroom freezer mix, pearl barley, carrots, and celery. A hearty one-pot meal from frozen to table in about an hour.

Slow-braised pork belly and kidneys with orange zest, celery, garlic, and rosemary, made a day ahead so the surface fat lifts off cleanly. Old-school British casserole craft.

Mediterranean seafood stew with lobster tails, shrimp, and cherrystone clams in a garlicky white wine and plum tomato broth with fresh parsley and oregano.

Beef and bay stew: a rustic Irish-style beef stew with leeks, turnip, carrots, potatoes, and celery, simmered gently with bay and thyme. Old-fashioned slow-cooked supper served with crusty bread.

Lentil and garbanzo bean salad with cherry tomatoes, carrots, scallions, and fresh parsley in a lemon olive oil dressing. High-protein, vegan, and served cold.

Pressure cooker chicken stock simmers browned chicken carcasses with carrots, celery, onion, and a bundle of herbs into a deep, golden broth in 45 minutes. Browning and deglazing build all-day flavor, fast.

A hearty one-pot vegan stew of brown rice and lentils simmered with tomatoes, carrots, celery and Italian herbs. No oil, high in fiber and protein, and everything cooks in a single pot.

Basic bean soup with homemade vegetable scrap stock, sautéed mirepoix, and cooked beans, half puréed for body, half left whole. Vegetarian, fiber-rich, freezer-friendly.

Puerto Rican beef stew braised in red wine and beef broth with potatoes, carrots, and green beans. A hearty Dutch oven dinner with deep, herb-rich gravy.

Black-eyed pea soup slow-simmered with a ham bone for New Year's Day good luck. Creamy, smoky, and served over white rice in the Southern tradition.