Beloved TV chef (ABCâs Emmy Award-winning The Chew and fan favorite on Bravoâs Top Chef), Carla Hall takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a fresh, lip-smackinâ look at Americaâs favorite comfort cuisine.
In Carla Hallâs Soul Food, the beloved chef and television celebrity takes us back to her own Nashville roots to offer a fresh, lip-smackinâ look at Americaâs favorite comfort cuisine and traces soul foodâs history from Africa and the Caribbean to the American South. Carla shows us that soul food is more than barbecue and mac and cheese. Traditionally a plant-based cuisine, everyday soul food is full of veggie goodness thatâs just as delicious as cornbread and fried chicken.
From Black-Eyed Pea Salad with Hot Sauce Vinaigrette to Tomato Pie with Garlic Bread Crust, the recipes in Carla Hallâs Soul Food deliver her distinctive Southern flavors using farm-fresh ingredients. The results are light, healthy, seasonal dishes with big, satisfying tastesâthe mouthwatering soul food everyone will want a taste of.
Recipes include:
Cracked Shrimp with Comeback Sauce Ghanaian Peanut Beef Stew with Onions and Celery Caribbean Smothered Chicken with Coconut, Lime, and Chiles Roasted Cauliflower with Raisins and Lemon-Pepper Millet Field Peas with Country Ham Chunky Tomato Soup with Roasted Okra Rounds Sweet Potato Pudding with Clementines Poured Caramel Cake With Carla Hallâs Soul Food, you can indulge in rich celebration foods, such as deviled eggs, buttermilk biscuits, Carlaâs famous take on Nashville hot fried chicken, and a decadent coconut cream layer cake.
Featuring 145 original recipes, 120 color photographs, and a whole lotta love, Carla Hallâs Soul Food is a wonderful blend of the modern and the traditionalâhonoring soul foodâs heritage and personalizing it with Carlaâs signature fresh style. The result is an irresistible and open-hearted collection of recipes and stories that share love and joy, identity, and memory.