Top Delicious Recipes from world’s Best Chefs.

We asked the chefs we admire most for the one recipe they cook when they want to impress with almost no effort. The answers surprised us: simple plates, honest ingredients, and technique doing the heavy lifting.

From a ten-minute tomato pasta to a slow-roasted shoulder that carves itself, these are the dishes our kitchen keeps coming back to, written up so you can cook them at home tonight.

Great cooking, less fuss

Nearly every chef gave us a version of the same advice: buy fewer, better ingredients and get out of their way. A ripe tomato, good olive oil and salt need almost nothing else, and a well-salted pan does more than any gadget.

The slow-roasted shoulder is the recipe we hear about most. Rubbed the night before and cooked low for hours, it needs no watching and rewards patience with meat that falls apart at the touch of a fork.

The best recipes are not the most complicated ones. They are the ones you can cook well after a long day and still feel proud to serve.

Elena Rossi, Sous Chef

Each recipe in the collection has been tested in our own kitchen and scaled for a home stove, with the small timing notes that make the difference between good and unforgettable.