Watch a trailer of chef Millie Peartree’s guide to soul food cooking workshop as she shares some of the cooking techniques and classic Southern recipes she’ll be covering.

A Chef’s Guide to Soul Food

Learn how to prepare Millie’s recipe for mouth-watering fried chicken, using an herbed brine and a buttermilk dredge with a hot honey sauce on the side.

Course: Guide to Soul Food 101 Fried Chicken

Fried Chicken

Bake along with Millie as she reveals how to cook her signature macaroni and cheese, a gooey and comforting soul food classic.

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Southern Baked Macaroni and Cheese

Discover how to prepare both fried green tomatoes and okra as Millie reveals how you can cook these delicious side dishes at the same time

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Fried Okra and Fried Green Tomatoes

Prepare a piping hot pan of fresh cornbread with honey butter on top. Cornbread's sweet yet subtle flavor makes it an ideal companion to any southern dish.

Cornbread with Honey Butter

Learn how to prepare slightly sweetened cornmeal hush puppies as Millie demonstrates how to deep fry them until golden brown on the outside and pillowy on the inside. She also shares how to whip up a honey butter sauce for dipping.

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Hush Puppies

Cook along with Millie as she prepares her recipe for light and crispy fried fish with fresh homemade tartar sauce. 

Course: Guide to Soul Food 102 Fried Fish

Fried Fish

Learn how to cook delicious collard greens with smoked turkey, using tips from Millie. The savory, briny textures of the leafy greens and meat make this classic dish a soul food staple that completes any meal.

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Southern Collard Greens

Learn how to bake Millie’s crowd-pleasing drop biscuit peach cobbler, a delectable sweet treat to round out any soul food dinner. The juicy, sweet peaches paired with a crispy biscuit on top creates a wonderful balance in every bite.

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Drop Biscuit Peach Cobbler

Learn how to prepare classic soul food recipes with chef Millie Peartree.

Community chef and restaurateur Millie Peartree began cooking at a very young age. Inspired by her mother and time spent visiting relatives in the South, Millie crafted her own take on the classic soul food favorites of her childhood. 

Millie Peartree

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Get ready to impress your friends and family. This recipe is sure to put a smile on your face. As all good things take time and care, this recipe is a little bit of a “labor of love.” Make sure you set aside about an hour and a half of prep work and around an hour of cook time. It serves 6 people, maybe 4 if you're hungry!

Fried Chicken with Hot Honey

Do you like happiness? If you don’t, then this recipe isn’t for you. But if you do, then let’s make my macaroni and cheese together. This is the dish that put me on the map. It’s the one everyone talks about and the one that every person who comes over for dinner begs me to make. And the beauty is, it’s so simple. You’ll have friends begging you for this recipe.

Macaroni and Cheese

Fried green tomatoes are delicious, but fried okra, well that’s a dish that is close to my heart.  I grew up eating fried okra, so these are two delicious items that you can prepare at the same time. I’m excited to share this recipe, so you can make them at home. Green tomatoes and okra are both seasonal ingredients. If frying okra out of season, you can use frozen okra that’s been thawed.

Millie Peartree's Fried Okra and Fried Green Tomatoes

Cornbread. There is nothing better. It's a dish that brings smiles and family memories to everyone who can smell that piping hot pan of goodness. No matter whether you’d eat an entire sheet yourself or just like it as a side, it’s a necessary part of any soul food meal.

Millie Peartree's Cornbread with Honey Butter

You can’t have soul food without sides, so I’m going to show you how to make some crowd-pleasing hush puppies. Hush puppies are slightly sweetened cornmeal dough balls that are deep fried until golden and crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. And trust me, make way more than you think, they will go quickly!

You can’t have soul food without some good music and friends, so throw on some of your favorite tunes, and invite over your friends and family because you’ve fried up some amazingly light and crispy fish. Add your tartar sauce if you’ve got it, maybe some hush puppies, or just some sliced wheat bread and enjoy.

Millie Peartree's Fried Fish with Tartar Sauce

Fried Fish with Tartar Sauce

If someone is talking about soul food, I’m sure you’ve heard them mention collard greens, and this is one of my favorite recipes. I grew up eating turnips and mustards (same family as collards), but when I first had collard greens in my late teens, I never looked back. Sorry, turnips.

Collard Greens

You can’t have a great soul food dinner without ending with a crowd-pleasing dessert. So, for our final chapter we are going to make a drop biscuit peach cobbler, and it’s as easy to make as it is delicious. Every recipe I create has one common goal: to help you realize that cooking is easy, it’s fun, and anyone can make great food. I promise you, give it a try, and watch how your family and friends come together and how it turns every meal you make into a special occasion.

A Chef’s Guide to Soul Food

Chapters

IntroA Chef’s Guide to Soul Food

Ch 1Fried Chicken

Ch 2Southern Baked Macaroni and Cheese

Ch 3Fried Okra and Fried Green Tomatoes

Ch 4Cornbread with Honey Butter

Ch 5Hush Puppies

Ch 6Fried Fish

Ch 7Southern Collard Greens

Ch 8Drop Biscuit Peach Cobbler

Meet The Creator

Millie Peartree