Equipping your kitchen with stainless steel cookware is a great way to experiment with new cooking techniques and explore different cuisines. Ultimately, each piece of stainless steel cookware is best suited for different recipes, depending on its shape and size.
Whether you need a piece of cookware that simplifies stirring for a risotto, or require a shallow cooking surface to braise veggies, our versatile line of stainless steel cookware has you covered. Le Creuset’s stainless steel cookware is crafted with premium materials, featuring an aluminum core bonded between two layers of premium stainless steel, guaranteeing its durability and ability to conduct heat more quickly.
Here are Le Creuset’s essential pieces of stainless steel cookware along with recipes they are best suited for.
Stainless Steel Essentials and Recipes
We have carefully curated a list of recipes that are perfect for each piece of stainless steel cookware, ranging from the classic Stainless Steel Fry Pan all the way to the Risotto Pot.
Stainless Steel Fry Pan
Our Stainless Steel Fry Pan is undoubtedly a Le Creuset essential, representing the ideal piece of cookware for searing and pan-frying ingredients. Featuring a flat bottom, slightly-sloped sides, and an ergonomic stay-cool stick handle, this versatile piece of cookware is designed to tackle a number of everyday cooking tasks and is built to last.
Crafted with heat-retaining stainless steel, our Stainless Steel Fry Pan is particularly ideal for searing, exposing ingredients to a consistent heat source. When it is not being used to sear ingredients, this piece of cookware can also be used to whisk a delicate sauce until it is completely reduced.
Chili Lime Snapper
Our Chili Lime Snapper makes for a great show-stopping main course, providing a hearty and healthy meal for the whole family. The Stainless Steel Fry Pan is perfectly suited for this recipe, frying each side of the snapper until it is golden brown. This versatile piece of cookware delivers superior heat retention and even heat distribution, ensuring all the spices and surrounding ingredients infuse themselves throughout the dish.
This recipe takes under an hour to prepare from start to finish and can serve between two and four people at a time. Be sure to garnish it with red chilies, green onions, lime slices and cilantro for added flavour!
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Our Stainless Steel Saucepan makes for another great addition to your stainless steel collection, serving a number of purposes. Whether you are reducing sauces, cooking grains, or blanching vegetables, this versatile piece of cookware accommodates with ease.
The Stainless Steel Saucepan comes equipped with tall sides to hold liquid and prevent messes, while its tight-fitting lid locks in heat and moisture. This versatile piece of cookware also has interior capacity markings, ensuring you can easily measure ingredients and liquids in no time.
Poached Pears
Our Poached Pears recipe is extremely easy to put together and is the perfect sweet treat for family and friends. The combination of cardamom, white wine, sugar, lemon juice and salt ensures your pears are packed with flavour. Be sure to have your Stainless Steel Saucepan ready for this dish, regularly stirring the mixture until it completely dissolves.
With the mixture combined, introduce the pears and let them simmer for approximately 20-30 minutes. This versatile piece of cookware delivers even heat distribution until your pears are poached to perfection and cooked all the way through. Finish by spooning syrup over the pears before serving and voilà – poached pears for the whole family!
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No kitchen is complete without a reliable stockpot. Our Stainless Steel Stockpot is the ideal piece of cookware to boil pasta, seafood, and grains and is equally suited to blanch veggies. This versatile piece of cookware simplifies meal preparation, serving up large batches of meals for the whole family to enjoy.
Its tight-fitting lid is designed to lock in heat and moisture while the stockpot’s ergonomic side handles help you transfer it from the stovetop to the table with ease. Our Stainless Steel Stockpot comes in two sizes (6.6 L and 10.2 L), accommodating recipes both big and small.
Mussel Pasta
Our Mussel Pasta is yet another great dish to experiment with your Stainless Steel Stockpot with Pasta Insert. This piece of cookware can be used for every step of this recipe, minimizing cleanup.
Our Stainless Steel Stockpot can be used to cook the pasta al’ dente before browning the bacon to perfection. Once that is complete, this versatile piece of cookware is best suited for steaming the mussels! With the mussels all but ready, introduce all the ingredients in the stockpot one final time and allow all the rich flavours to immerse themselves throughout the dish.
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Our Stainless Steel Saucier, also referred to as the Chef’s Pan, will help you tackle new recipes with ease, especially if they require constant stirring and complex flavours, such as risottos, custards, and sauces.
The saucier’s rounded bottom and curved walls keep ingredients moving to prevent them from sticking to corners and burning, while its flared sides are ideal for whisking and stirring. This piece is great for reducing a sauce or preparing a delicate risotto. Its stainless steel construction not only ensures its durability but delivers superior heat conduction and retention at every turn.
Mixed Mushroom Risotto
Our Mixed Mushroom Risotto recipe is everything a homemade risotto should be: Rich, creamy, and will ultimately leave you asking for seconds. Like with any risotto, the key is constant stirring. Our Stainless Steel Saucier has been carefully crafted with a rounded bottom and flared sides to facilitate stirring and simplify risotto preparation. No wasted risotto here!
Serve with freshly-grated Parmesan and finely chopped parsley and enjoy! Mixed mushroom risotto made easy thanks to your Stainless Steel Saucier.
Get the recipeStainless Steel Sauté Pan
Our Stainless Steel Sauté Pan embodies versatility in the kitchen and can help you elevate traditional weeknight meal preparation. Whether you need to sauté veggies and noodles or sear meat and create a pan sauce, this piece of cookware is the one you should reach for.
Our Stainless Steel Sauté Pan is great for preparing larger recipes, offering home cooks and chefs alike a generous cooking surface with straight and high sides. Its tall sides along with its ergonomic stay-cool stick handle ultimately ensures you can sauté vegetables and all other ingredients with ease.
Shakshuka
Make your way to North Africa with our delicious Shakshuka recipe. This recipe is a great way to start, combining a wealth of spices, including cumin, paprika, and cayenne pepper all within your Stainless Steel Sauté Pan.
This versatile piece of cookware is perfectly suited for this recipe, cooking the vegetables before stirring in all the spices. The Sauté Pan’s straight and high sides help you stir in the remaining ingredients with ease, all-while preventing a mess. Its tight-fitting lid plays a crucial role for this age-old recipe, locking in heat and moisture, delivering a flavourful final dish.
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Looking for a versatile piece of cookware to add to your collection? Look no further than our Stainless Steel Rondeau. Arguably the most unique shape from our stainless steel collection, our Rondeau can be used to braise and poach ingredients to perfection. Its wide base and tall sides accommodate a number of cooking techniques, and can even help you simmer ingredients to perfection.
This piece of cookware provides a shallow cooking surface, ensuring liquids evaporate quickly. The end result is truly flavourful and delicious meals. Our Stainless Steel Rondeau also comes equipped with a tight-fitting lid with a built-in steam vent to prevent overflow, locking in heat and moisture.
Butter Chicken
Mix things up in the kitchen this week and experiment with our very own take on Butter Chicken. This traditional Indian recipe is full of flavour, featuring a rich combination of herbs and spices. The Stainless Steel Rondeau is all you’ll need for this dish! Its wide base allows for easier stirring of the tomato paste, coconut milk, and butter, exposing ingredients to a consistent heat source.
Once the chicken is introduced, bring the Rondeau to a simmer and let it cook for approximately 45 minutes. Crafted with heat-retaining stainless steel, this piece of cookware will deliver a delicious final dish, offering superior heat retention every step of the way.
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Our Stainless Steel Risotto Pot is yet another Le Creuset stainless steel essential, serving a number of purposes in the kitchen. While its primary purpose is to prepare delicious risottos, this versatile piece of cookware can also be used to simmer sauces and soups.
Its rounded bottom and flared sides prevent ingredients from sticking to the corners, simplifying stirring. Built to last and featuring a heat-responsive aluminum core, our Stainless Steel Risotto Pot is the perfect complement to any existing Le Creuset collection.
Beetroot Risotto
Mastering the art of risotto ultimately requires time and patience, but our Beetroot Risotto is a great place to start. Combining beets, goat cheese, toasted hazelnuts, and Arborio rice, this dish makes for a decadent and well-balanced main course.
Our Risotto Pot was carefully crafted for exactly this purpose, offering you the perfect piece of cookware for this recipe. Whether you need to regularly stir the rice or bring the chicken broth to a boil, this versatile piece of cookware accommodates with the minimum of fuss. Be sure to serve dollops of fresh goat cheese, chopped chives, and toasted hazelnuts for a truly show-stopping meal!
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Transform tough cuts of meat and vegetables in no time with our Stainless Steel Braiser. This piece of cookware has been crafted to deliver tender, fall-off-the-bone final dishes, using wet and dry heat. Providing a generously-sized cooking surface, this braiser can help tackle recipes for the whole family.
When you are not busy braising ingredients to perfection, our Stainless Steel Braiser can be used for shallow-frying, searing, and cooking down liquids. It also comes equipped with a tight-fitting lid with a built-in steam vent to prevent overflow.
Braised Beets
Our Braised Beets recipe is a delicious and healthy no-stress side dish that can help you make the most of your Stainless Steel Braiser. Whether you are expecting guests, or want to whip together a complete meal in no time, this dish has you covered.
Our Stainless Steel Braiser is the perfect piece of cookware for this recipe, cooking the beets on low and slow heat until they are tender and delicious. The braiser’s shallow based and domed lid locks in flavour and moisture, slow-cooking the beets right until they are ready to be served. Requiring six simple steps and ingredients commonly found in any pantry, this side dish is as easy to prepare as it is delicious.
Get the recipeGet Cooking with Your Stainless Steel Cookware
Adding stainless steel cookware to your Le Creuset collection is a great way to elevate traditional meal preparation and start tackling recipes and cooking techniques with which you were not otherwise familiar.
Each piece of stainless steel cookware serves its own unique purpose in the kitchen, delivering superior cooking results every single time. From our delicious Shakshuka and Mixed Mushroom Risotto to our Chili Lime Snapper, each piece of stainless steel cookware is ultimately best suited for a certain type of recipe.
These were just 10 of our favourite recipes perfect for each piece of your stainless steel cookware collection, but for more inspiration, visit our blog for all the latest tips on getting the most out of your Le Creuset cookware.
