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Inspired by the eponymous best-selling book, Martha Stewart's Cooking School gives home cooks a culinary master class with Martha herself. Using her signature step-by-step, how-to teaching process, Martha illustrates cooking fundamentals that everyone should know: from roasting and poaching to braising and blanching.
Martha simplifies time-honored recipes to bring a Gulf-style breakfast to your table. She cooks up a feast of traditional dishes: khameer, a date-sweetened bread; shakshouka, a baked egg dish; jebabs, a distant cousin of pancakes; and balaleet, a delicious way to serve an omelet.
Learn four techniques for cooking four different recipes – all using the grill: Arabian Gulf-style fish in banana leaves, date-glazed lamb chops, sea bass fillets with okra kebabs, and spatchcocked saffron chicken.
Follow the flavor as Martha puts her spin on the stews of the Arabian Gulf. Arabian Gulf potpie, braised lamb shanks with okra, curried swordfish stew and red lentil vegetable stew…these slow cooked treasures offer nourishing comfort with ease.
Martha uses her expertise to adjust the old school techniques of rustic bread baking to work in your kitchen so you can enjoy date flatbreads, fatout bread with seeds and raisin, coconut mandazi, and eggplant flatbread any time in your own home.
Martha spices up everyday side dishes with the distinctive ingredients of the Gulf. Creamed coconut spinach, eggplant with herbs and yogurt, cauliflower salad with roasted chickpeas and za’atar smashed potatoes –these four recipes will brighten any meal!
Martha prepares flavor-packed Arabian Gulf world-class favorites perfectly fit for a crowd. The menu features chicken kabsa, stuffed cabbage and spiced lamb chops, orzo risotto with wild mushrooms, and a sweet cake called kumajj.
Dates, a cornerstone of Gulf cuisine, take center stage in this episode. Explore the versatility of this world-famous ingredient through both savory and sweet dishes that include date-stuffed baby eggplant, mackerel with date butter, chocolate-date pudding cake, and date truffles. Don’t forget to make a date with this super food!
Martha gets creative as she threads flavor-packed ingredients onto each kebab skewer with pomegranate skirt steak kebabs, lamb kebabs with yogurt-mint sauce, beef, mushroom, and millet kebabs, and saffron-yogurt chicken kebabs.
Follow along step by step, as Martha teaches you the tricks to cooking these customary dishes: chicken machbous, al mansaf, beef biryani, and lamb ghouzi. You and your guests are sure to celebrate each delicious bite!
Let your taste buds travel to the Arabian Gulf with eye-popping, inspired small bites. Martha introduces four recipes bursting with flavor: crab croquettes, date pancakes, lamb dumplings, and an addictive fava bean dip. So let these hors d’oeuvres spruce up your next gathering.
