Well we wanna welcome you back,
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and we're gonna go to
the actual ingredients
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for this particular recipe
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Chicken Salad, it calls for:
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Okay chicken
salad. Now, we're doing a
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chicken salad, not
the real chicken though.
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Right, because we're
trying to mimic that of
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chicken because you started
talking about cholesterol.
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Yeah we can't do the
real chicken on our show.
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Well, I'm gonna show
you, I'm gonna be using
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in the place of my
chicken and that is the
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Tofu and this is a one
and only one type there
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is all different types
out, they come in water
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pack, okay. You know
water pack around the
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tofu itself they come
in a firm and extra firm
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and in this one we
actually have the firm
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let me just take that out now.
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This is the soy shop
type, and it could be
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any type, but
there's many different
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manufactures of
this type of tofu.
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Now I'm gonna tell
you what I do is that when
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I get this tofu
because I'm make chicken salad
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out of it. I will take
the tofu, keep it in it's
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container with the water
and put it in the freezer
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and freeze it for
at least 24 hours.
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Some time a couple of
days the longer it sits
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and firms up the more
it looks like chicken and
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or turkey alright,
okay. Now when you take it
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out of the freezer and
you thaw it out, you're
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gonna notice that all
the water is inside the tofu.
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And so you got to
squeeze that water out.
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Now you can use a
paper towel and press it,
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or you can just
take your hand, and I've
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done some already
but let me just show you.
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The water will come
out, you just squeeze it,
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you don't wanna
squeeze it real, real tight.
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But, you wanna
squeeze it enough to get the
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liquid, the water
out of the tofu so it can
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resemble that of
chicken. So, now the freezer,
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you're gonna freeze
the tofu in a container you
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don't open it up just
keep it in the container
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and put it in the
freezer, right. And this would
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change the
texture and keep it there
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for how many days?
Well at least 24 hours,
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at least 24
hours this will change
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the texture of this tofu.
It will change the texture.
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Now you know when
you buy tofu you'll
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notice it has a kind
of a gritty texture people
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look at it and say
you know will it typically
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like the way it looks,
so how it actually responds.
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Now when I do my
chicken salads, turkey
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salads I put it in my chili.
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Anything that calls for
that I always freeze the
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tofu, because it has
a better texture and it
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looks like that of
meat, okay. Now the other
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thing is there's
two things you can do,
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you take a fork and
you can begin to just press
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against the side
of the tofu, okay.
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Because what you're
trying to do is get back
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of chicken alright or
what you can do is you
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can just take your
tofu and you can just break
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it up, break it
up. And you know I need
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in pieces kind of
reminds you of chicken
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and you're gonna see
that like to see right
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now and you are gonna
kind of look at the see,
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it looks like
chicken pieces okay.
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It looks like chicken pieces
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that you have in
different sizes okay.
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Now while I'm getting
finished with doing this,
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Curtis is going to
take it and mix together.
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We have the Soy Mayonnaise,
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Soy Mayonnaise we
also have the lite
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soy sauce, lite soy sauce.
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Okay we also have
turmeric, turmeric and
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we have lemon juice,
lemon juice, and garlic
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powder, and garlic powder.
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So you're gonna make
that sauce, till I'll finish
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up the last, the rest
of this okay, alright.
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And again this in
your global, this one, this
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chicken salad is
actually in the revised
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vegetarian cooking
made easy cookbook,
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we've just revised that book.
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It's in there already
for those who have already
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have that book but
those who are trying to
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get it, it's in the
revised one okay, okay.
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And you're gonna stir
that up really nicely and
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smooth that out, also
as I'm finishing up the
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chicken, the mock chicken.
I have some friends that
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we were doing chili
and they kept saying that
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I got to have the
ground beef and the chili
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talking about trying
to get that cholesterol
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down, and I say well we
can do tofu freeze it and
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turn it into like a chicken
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combination, put that in there.
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They didn't really believe you.
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They didn't believe
me, they were too happy
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about that
either. And so we did that
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and also there is a
mock ground beef out put up
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by Boca Burger, you
can actually already
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comes looking like
burger crumbles and
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you can put that
in yours as well.
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Now this is like
you wanna put a chicken
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flavor in okay and
I'm having a good time,
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I'm having a good time,
you're just a lot of fun
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than I'm doing
yeah okay I'm sorry,
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I'm sorry you're
not having a good time.
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Well I mean, this is
okay I mean but still,
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okay now at this
point what I'm gonna do is
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I'm gonna go ahead
on and I'm gonna put in
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and like I say.
Come down on the time,
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okay I'm gonna go
ahead and put in my
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celery, alright. I
want you put the green
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peppers in for me,
green peppers going in.
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Green scallions,
scallions, okay those
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are going in.
Okay. And you can see
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this is really become
very, very attractive okay.
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We are gonna also go
ahead on and put in the
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sauce that Curtis
just got finished going,
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why don't you go ahead
and put that in for me honey?
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Okay, scrape
that on down in there,
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and you have to admit
this looks just like a
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chicken salad okay.
And make sure you get
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all the goodies
honey, yes honey.
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All the goodies out,
yes honey okay, okay.
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Then I'm gonna go
ahead on and start
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stirring that up, let
me do especially for this.
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Alright. What we're gonna do is
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we're gonna just mix
that together alright and
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you can see that it
looks like chicken salad okay.
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Now can use this
as sandwich I mean can
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you, you can make a
sandwich, you can put
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in pita bread, pita
bread, you know with your
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tomatoes and your lettuce okay.
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And you know what at
this point we're gonna
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take a break and when
you come back you will
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see the final
product, so stay by.
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