Martha Stewart told us the 5 recipes she thinks everyone should learn how to make

• Martha Stewart told Business Insider nan recipes she believes everyone should study to make. 
• Stewart wants her pome pastry and citrus meringue pastry to beryllium portion of her legacy. 
• She besides recommends learning really to make her mother Big Martha's pierogies.  

Martha Stewart has fixed america dozens of cookbooks and thousands upon thousands of recipes.

So, wherever do you commencement erstwhile you want to navigator for illustration nan manner icon?

While Stewart was promoting her business pinch Pure Leaf successful November 2023, we asked which recipes she believes everyone should study to make.

Stewart happily obliged — and gave america five.

Martha Stewart hopes her pome pastry will beryllium portion of her legacy

Apple pastry was nan first look Stewart named for us, and she recommends everyone study really to maestro her all-butter pastry crust (also known arsenic a pâte brisée).

"If you cognize really to make my pâte brisée, you'll ever cognize really to make a bully pie," she told Business Insider.

Stewart demonstrated really to make pâte brisée connected her TikTok. You tin besides find recipes for some her pâte brisée and her old-fashioned pome pie connected MarthaStewart.com.

Stewart besides counts citrus meringue pastry among her favorites

Stewart recommends that location cooks study really to make 1 of her citrus meringues.

"The mile-high citrus meringue pastry is very delicious," she said. "And my upside-down citrus meringue pastry has a meringue crust, and nan citrus is successful nan crust and past topped pinch whipped cream. I deliberation you'll find it very enticing."

Stewart's upside-down citrus meringue pastry was really inspired by a look for "lemon angel pie" made by her look tester's grandmother, Josephine Rege. Stewart has shared recipes for some nan upside-down citrus meringue pie and nan mile-high citrus meringue pie connected her site.

Stewart recommends everyone study really to make her mother's pierogies

Stewart's first inspiration successful nan room was her mother, Martha Kostyra, besides known arsenic "Big Martha." (She spills much specifications astir her family successful nan new Netflix documentary, "Martha.")

According to Stewart's website, Big Martha taught her really to make many accepted Polish recipes, including kielbasa, stuffed cabbage, and respective different types of pierogies.

Pierogies are Stewart's favourite comfortableness food, and she's shared recipes for making the basal dough, arsenic good arsenic galore of her mother's saccharine and savory variations.

"If you study really to make that dough, you tin make pierogies filled pinch murphy aliases cabbage aliases fruit, you tin do cherry — those are my favorites," she told BI.

Stewart swears by this elemental crockery vinaigrette

"If you cognize really to make my vinaigrette, each crockery will sensation delicious," she said.

Stewart's favourite vinaigrette features oliva oil, achromatic vino aliases atom vino vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt, freshly crushed achromatic pepper, and a pinch of sugar. To make it, conscionable propulsion nan ingredients successful a mason jar and springiness it a fewer shakes.

Stewart besides recommends drizzling nan vinaigrette complete dishes including atom pilaf, steamed greenish beans, baked chicken, and fish.

And Stewart starts each greeting pinch her favourite greenish juice

Stewart has been drinking her greeting greenish juice for complete a decade, and she believes it's nan concealed to her glowing skin. You tin find nan full recipe connected her website.

Stewart trim retired intoxicant and continued to portion her greenish juice each time while preparing for her historical Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover.

"Alcohol is really bad for you successful quantity. It's conscionable not nan champion point successful nan world to return in," she told Insider. "But I'm not a large drinker anyway, truthful it wasn't a large sacrifice."

Stewart said her juice features celery, cucumber, caller spinach leaves, "a small spot of mint and parsley," a "tiny portion of ginger," a peeled orange, and "you tin adhd a pear if you like."

"If you had my greenish juice each day, you would conscionable consciousness awesome each nan time," she added.