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

Martha Stewart has written thousands of recipes, but she told Insider these are the five that everyone should learn.

• Martha Stewart told Insider five of her recipes she believes everyone should learn how to make. 
• Stewart wants her apple pie and lemon meringue pie to be part of her legacy. 
• She also recommends learning how to make her mother Big Martha's pierogies.  

Martha Stewart has given us dozens of cookbooks and thousands upon thousands of recipes.

So where do you even start when you want to cook like the lifestyle icon?

Insider recently sat down with Stewart to discuss her new partnership with Pure Leaf, so we had to ask which recipes she believes everyone should learn how to make.

She happily obliged — and gave us five.

Martha Stewart hopes her apple pie will be part of her legacy

Apple pie was the first recipe Stewart named for us, and she recommends everyone learn how to master her all-butter pie crust (also known as a pâte brisée).

"If you know how to make my pâte brisée, you'll always know how to make a good pie," she told Insider.

Stewart recently demonstrated how to make pâte brisée on her TikTok. You can also find recipes for both her pâte brisée and her old-fashioned apple pie on MarthaStewart.com.

Stewart also counts lemon meringue pie among her favorites

Stewart recommends that home cooks learn how to make one of her lemon meringues.

"The mile-high lemon meringue pie is very delicious," she said. "And my upside-down lemon meringue pie has a meringue crust, and the lemon is in the crust and then topped with whipped cream. I think you'll find it very enticing."

Stewart's upside-down lemon meringue pie was actually inspired by a recipe for "lemon angel pie" made by her recipe tester's grandmother, Josephine Rege. Stewart has shared recipes for both the upside-down lemon meringue pie and the mile-high lemon meringue pie on her site.

Stewart recommends everyone learn how to make her mother's pierogies

Stewart's first inspiration in the kitchen was her mother Martha Kostyra, also known as "Big Martha."

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

Pierogies are Stewart's favorite comfort food, and she's shared recipes on how to make the basic dough, as well as many of her mother's sweet and savory variations.

"If you learn how to make that dough, you can make pierogies filled with potato or cabbage or fruit, you can do cherry — those are my favorites," she told Insider.

Stewart swears by this simple salad vinaigrette

"If you know how to make my vinaigrette, every salad will taste delicious," she told Insider.

Stewart's favorite vinaigrette features olive oil, white wine or rice wine vinegar, Dijon mustard, salt, freshly-ground black pepper, and a pinch of sugar. All you have to do is throw the ingredients in a mason jar and give it a few shakes.

Stewart also recommends drizzling the vinaigrette over dishes including rice pilaf, steamed green beans, baked chicken, and fish.

And Stewart starts every morning with her favorite green juice

Stewart has been drinking her morning green juice for over a decade, and she believes it's the secret to her glowing skin. You can find the full recipe on her website.

Stewart cut out alcohol and continued to drink her green juice every day while preparing for her historic Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover.

"Alcohol is really bad for you in quantity. It's just not the best thing in the world to take in," she told Insider. "But I'm not a big drinker anyway, so it wasn't a big sacrifice."

Stewart said her juice features celery, cucumber, fresh spinach leaves, "a little bit of mint and parsley," a "tiny piece of ginger," a peeled orange, and "you can add a pear if you like."

"If you had my green juice every day, you would just feel great all the time," she added.