Michelin star chef Daniel Boulud shares his essential Thanksgiving cooking tips PLUS his favorite recipe for the season

World-renowned cook Daniel Boulud is engaged preparing to serve Thanksgiving astatine his elegant fine-dining restaurants crossed New York City. 

Here, the Michelin-star cook of Le Pavillon and Cafe Boulud shares his apical 3 tips for Americans preparing the feast for friends and household astatine home.  

Boulud, who is co-president of Citymeals connected Wheels which provides homebound seniors with nutritious meals, besides shares his idiosyncratic favourite Thanksgiving dish. 

Originally from France, Boulud arrived successful New York City successful 1982 and has since go a mainstay of the culinary scene's precocious crust.

Boulud besides has restaurants successful Canada, Dubai, Singapore, and The Bahamas, and precocious established his ain catering task Cuisine Boulud for expansive events oregon intimate meal parties. 

1. Brine your turkey 

Brine your turkey to support it other moist and perfectly seasoned. I bash a 10 percent brackish brine with 2 percent chromatic oregon sugar, for astir 10 minutes per pound. 

After brining, permission the turkey uncovered successful your fridge overnight earlier cooking for other crispy skin.

2. Choose the close wine 

Pair your turkey with a Beaujolais Nouveau, a peculiar vino that becomes disposable close astir the holidays. 

Join america astatine Le Pavillon wherever you tin effort this cleanable pairing for Thanksgiving, oregon astir immoderate of our restaurants in New York City.

3. Elevate your sides 

Elevate your sides by adding immoderate insignificant ingredients to the classical preparations. 

For example, I ever infuse my gravy with sage, adhd cornbread and sausage into a classical stuffing and adhd a small citrus and banana into my saccharine murphy purée for a je ne sais quoi. 

Daniel's favourite Thanksgiving dish: Creamless squash soup

'This look is simply a staple connected my Thanksgiving menu, it is simply a contented some astatine home, and astatine each of my restaurants.' 

 Yield

Serves: 8

Ingredients

2 Tablespoons unsalted butter, oregon olive oil

2 mean leeks, achromatic and airy greenish parts only, trimmed, finely sliced, good washed, and drained

2 stalks celery, trimmed

1 mean onion, peeled and finely sliced

Sachet: 2 sprigs flat-leaf parsley, 1 sprig sage, 1 clove of ail (tied successful cheesecloth)

¼ spoon crushed cinnamon

¼ spoon crushed nutmeg

¼ spoon crushed allspice

¼ spoon crushed ginger

Salt and freshly crushed pepper

2 pounds butternut squash, peeled, seeded, chopped successful 1” dice

10 cups (2 1/2 quarts) unsalted chickenhearted oregon rootlike stock

3/4 cupful coconut milk

Method

1. Warm the food successful a banal cookware implicit medium-low vigor and adhd the leek, onion, celery, cheesecloth sachet and spices; play to sensation with brackish and pepper. Cook, stirring frequently, for astir 7 to 8 minutes, until the vegetables are translucent and tender but not browned. Add the squash, navigator 5 minutes more, and past adhd the chickenhearted banal and coconut milk. Bring to a boil, little the heat, and simmer for 30 minutes.

2. Discard the sachet and transportation crockery to a blender. Purée until smooth; set the seasoning with brackish and capsicum if needed. Pass the crockery done a fine-meshed sieve and acceptable speech to cool. Cover with integrative wrapper and refrigerate until needed. Before serving, bring the crockery to a boil and set the consistency utilizing h2o oregon banal and sensation the seasoning, if needed. (Soup whitethorn beryllium made a time successful beforehand and refrigerated overnight.)

To Serve:

Ladle the blistery crockery into 8 lukewarm serving bowls. I suggest serving this with marshmallows, pumpernickel croutons, toasted pumpkin seeds oregon fried sage leaves.