Welcome to Cook: 30.
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I'm Jeremy Dixon,
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from the Revive Cafes
in Auckland, New Zealand.
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And also author of
the Revive Cafe Cookbooks.
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And today I'm
gonna share with you,
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how you can make
delicious cafA(C) style meals
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in your very own home.
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Cook:30 food is
about using delicious,
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whole food ingredients.
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We gonna be using
protein sources like nuts,
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lentils and beans,
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whole grains like
Quinoa and brown rice,
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fresh fruits and vegetable
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and tying it together
with international flavors,
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and fresh herbs and spices.
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And the best part
about Cook:30 food,
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you do not have to spend hours
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slaving away in
the kitchen to make it.
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I'm gonna show you
in the next 30 minutes,
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how you can make a delicious,
nutritious meal for your family
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and you'll be
surprised how easy it is.
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On the menu today,
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we have a combination of salads.
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And these are the--
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my customer's favorite
salads in my Cafe salad bar.
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We have French Puy Lentils
and Roasted Beetroot salad,
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a Spanish Smoked
Rice with Peanuts,
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Fresh Cos Caesar
Salad with Croutons,
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and a Thai Green Curry Mingle.
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We're gonna top
it off with hummus
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and finish with the
Sparkling Fruity Punch.
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Now, quick meals do
not happen by accident.
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You're gonna make
sure your kitchen is setup
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and ready to go.
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A nice clear workspace,
chopping board, sharp knife,
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I've got the oven on
at 400 degrees Fahrenheit
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which is about 200 Celsius,
a pot and a pan on the stove,
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boiling water in
the jug, ready to go,
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and a pantry and fridge
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enlightened
with fresh vegetables
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and all the
things we're gonna need.
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So a bit of
preparation is really important,
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and then you can make
your meals really quickly.
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First of beetroot.
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Roasted beetroot is a
great ingredient in roasting,
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but it can often
take up to an hour,
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so we're gonna take
a bit of a short cut
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and get on first.
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So beetroot or beets,
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as you may call
in some countries,
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so we're just
gonna, just take a raw one,
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you may not have
used it raw before,
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and just slice it into
rounds and then chop it up.
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Now, we're gonna
chop it up quite finely
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because we want
it to cook quickly.
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So make sure, you keep
it properly about under,
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you know, half a centimeter
or half to one centimeter.
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So we have about
two large beetroots
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or around about three
small ones on to a tray.
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Drizzle of oil.
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And we're gonna add really
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beautiful spice
of ground cloves.
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And this beautiful...
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Hmm, aromatic
spice would just give a,
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just a little a
specialness of flavor.
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So probably want to add
about two teaspoons here.
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Give it a good mix around.
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Use your fingers,
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we can mix it in
the bowl if we want to.
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We want to evenly
coat the beetroot,
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and put it straight in the oven.
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So you want to make
sure it has full 30 minutes,
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and it will need that too.
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You're gonna make sure
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it kind of become
soft and caramelizes.
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Next ingredient is
kumara or sweet potato.
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I'm gonna use probably one
to two large or three small.
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Go with those ones.
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And again, we're just
gonna, gonna slice these up.
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Let me just clean the knife.
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We don't want beetroot
all over a sweet potato.
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And again, just
crop it into quarters,
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and then just
chop them out finely.
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Chop them as evenly as you can
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and again just
on to an oven tray.
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These oven trays are great,
they go on the dish washer.
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Again, drizzle of oil.
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And we're just gonna
give this quick, quick mix up.
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Don't need much oil,
or just enough to stop it
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from burning and help it cook.
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And again in the oven.
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These will take
about 10 minutes,
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so we'll pull them out earlier.
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And they can happily
cook there with the beetroot.
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Okay, next
ingredient we want to do is some
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broccoli and cauliflower,
this is for another salad.
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So we want around about
a quarter of a cauliflower.
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So just a quarter, dissect it
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and we're just gonna pull
the leaves off and manky bits.
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Now, it's looking
very beautiful in there.
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And just gonna, just chop it up
into little bite size florets.
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Just keep chopping in
half, half again, very rough.
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You want to make sure
something that you can
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pop in your mouth without
becoming very rude at dinner.
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So pot's already hot.
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We got some boiling
water here, ready to go.
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They're hotter than I thought,
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but that's better,
better than too cold.
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And you're gonna
get that underway.
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This can take about
five or six to seven minutes
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to become soft.
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We don't want to
overcook it and become too soft.
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We're gonna add
some broccoli as well,
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and this will take
about three to four minutes.
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I'll just clean my
knife, and again same thing,
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just into lovely,
bite sized florets.
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I'm using these
lovely fresh vegetables
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really makes
the salad beautiful.
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And obviously it's
healthy for you as well.
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Here we go.
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Lid on and we'll come back
to that in a couple of minutes.
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Next job as well, we've
got another cooking job.
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We're gonna make some
delicious heroine croutons
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for the Cos salad.
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Now, I've got some beautiful
rye, dark rye bread here,
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and the crouton
you buy in the shop
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it's just all white
flour and heavily processed.
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Again, just gonna cube
these into little cubes.
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You can use stale
bread for croutons
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or fresh bread,
it doesn't matter.
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Sometimes, staler is the better.
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I hope you don't,
you're gonna make sure
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it doesn't have
mould all over it.
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And again, we're just
gonna put those in a pan,
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with a little bit of oil.
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Already nice and hot,
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and just quick,
briefly fry them.
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Just, just give them
a bit of a toss around.
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I mean, when you're tossing,
you're kind of tossing things
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forth and bringing it back.
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So it's kind of
bouncing off the end of the pan
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and bouncing back.
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So it's kind of like
a-- like a round motion.
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You're not kind of
throwing it up and down.
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So it's very, very
light coating of oil.
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And we'll just throw in a
good punch of salt as well.
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In a couple of
minutes we're gonna have
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our own delicious croutons.
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You want these nice and
crisp, but not hard and dry.
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So here we got
four jobs on underway,
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the main cooking job's done.
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So the rest of salads
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will just be
basically an assembling job.
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Now most salads
require a good dressing
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and we use many
different dressings in my cafes,
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but here is a great
one that you can use
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and use across the
multitude of different salads.
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It's a tahini dressing.
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So we're gonna need some tahini
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which is basically
ground up sesame seeds.
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I'm gonna put this into blender.
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You can also use a stick
blender as well if you like.
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So we're gonna put
four tablespoons, four...
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And we're gonna add
a tablespoon of honey.
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We can throw in some
dates if you want as well,
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but honey is quiet
convenient and easy.
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And we're gonna
throw in some lemon,
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so we want quarter
a cup of lemon juice.
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And we're just
gonna slice these in half,
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and use this lemon squeezer.
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Lemon juice gives a
really nice bite end
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with the acidic
to the dressings.
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So pour that in here or
just pour through my fingers
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so that I catch
most of the seeds.
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If the odd one tries to jump in,
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it's not the end of the
road, it will be blended up.
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Here we go, a little bit of salt
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and I think we need
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half teaspoon of salt, this one.
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And some garlic,
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so I've got one clove of garlic.
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I'm just gonna use
the whole this time.
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Give it a squash,
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chop off the ends and peel it,
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and then just
give it a bit of extra,
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extra chop to help it blend.
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And there we go, simple as that.
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Mix it up.
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We also need some water.
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So you probably want to start
with about four tablespoons
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and you can just alter it
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depending on how
liquidly you want it.
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So you want it so it
can pour over a salad
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but not be too runny,
just have little taste here,
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so that's kind
of perfect I think,
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now it can drips
and tastes amazing,
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nice and acidic
with the lemon juice,
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bit of salt there.
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You can just taste the garlic
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and tahini isn't
too overpowering.
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So make sure you try dressings
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because they can
alternate differently.
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So it's finished basically,
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so we gonna use
it and set it aside,
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when we come to
assembling our salads,
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we just gonna add a bit
of dressing to some of them.
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Okay, aren't these
babies here finished?
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Look at that.
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Just steamed, just gonna
pour them into a colander,
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and I just gonna
give them a bit of water,
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just so cool them down
a bit, I put a cold water,
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just to stop
the cooking process.
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I'm gonna just put in there
and come back to those later.
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The croutons,
because they're just nicely.
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Just crunchy but not too hard.
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So that is done as well.
So we'll turn this gas off.
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And they'll be
happy setting there
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until we come to see the salad.
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I'll just check
the sweet potato.
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Beetroot still
needs a bit of time
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but the sweet
potatoes all ready to go.
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It's nice and soft look at that,
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so we just put that over here,
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and we'll come
back to that shortly.
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And now we gonna make
the Spanish rice salad.
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This is really easy,
it's just an assembly job.
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We gonna some rice, brown
rice that I cooked yesterday,
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so whenever you cook
rice make sure you cook extra,
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so you can make
salads like this.
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We got some green peas as well.
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There's just
some precooked rice,
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you could cook it on
the day if you wanted to.
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Just want about three
cups, one, two, three cups.
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And we're just basing in
five ingredients into this bowl.
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And some frozen peas,
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it seem we just
kind of go about a cup of
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sweet peas that are
frozen, these don't need cooked,
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that'll just kind of defrost
as we put ingredients in.
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Also gonna put
some wet dressing in
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as I will be dressing
then I put about half a cup.
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So pour that over.
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And the magic ingredient
for this is smoked paprika,
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so we want two
teaspoons of smoked paprika
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and this gives a beautiful,
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beautiful smokey kind of flavor.
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That's about two teaspoons.
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Table spoon of
sweet chilly sauce.
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So these are
ingredients that are great
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to have in your pantry.
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And something
that makes the rice
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sort of really
special is peanut,
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so they just always seem
to fly at the door at my cafe
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when you throw
peanuts into rice salad.
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So about half a cup of peanuts.
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We gonna dice up a red pepper,
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just cut the end of
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and dice just into
little dice, so cut into strips,
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and then chop it into dices.
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Otherwise when you cut
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so you don't have to cut
everything multiple times
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and just very rough and rustic.
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You don't need to
get too perfect about it.
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And I think that's
all the ingredients.
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So what we're doing now
is just put your hands in,
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give it a good mix around,
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this is a fun
part of making salads
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is when ingredients are all in.
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Now smoked
paprika just got rubbing
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and the color
will start coming out.
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And this is a
truly delicious salad.
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There you go, I
just wash my hands.
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And to finish it off
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we're just gonna use
some cherry tomatoes,
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I have some
beautiful, cherry tomatoes,
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few different colors,
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so I got some yellow ones,
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I got some red ones.
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I'm just gonna chop
them up, just into half.
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If you're skilful you
can chop up two at a time,
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plus it's nice when you
tear into a cherry tomato
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to have bit of edge they say,
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just try and chop
into half roughly.
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Just like that,
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and just finish off with
the bit of Italian parsley
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just a few slices.
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And this salad is done
and is ready for the table.
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If you've just
joined us on Cook:30,
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we're cooking the
four most popular salads
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in my cafe in Auckland.
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We have the French Puy Lentils
and Roasted Beetroot Salad,
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A Spanish Smoked
Rice with peanuts.
00:15:29.02\00:15:31.99
We had a Fresh Cos
Caesar Salad with Croutons.
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A Thai green curry mingle.
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And serving over the
top with delicious hummus
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and finishing off with
the sparkling fruity punch.
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So we got a couple of minutes,
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we're setting out
to get punch underway.
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So just going- to a
mix of orange juice,
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just getting some
nice pulpy orange juice
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and some, we gonna add
some extra bits into it,
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to make it a bit more
special than you normally would.
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So probably around about
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just under a quarter
or liter of orange juice
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and we just gonna
add some strawberries,
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just gonna take
strawberries and chop them up
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really finely
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and they just add
some beautiful color.
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This is a great punch
to use in Christmas time.
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You can just make your
punches just look a little
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look more special.
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Just chop them up anyway
you can into little cubes,
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little bit finish at the end
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and into the
punch, just like that.
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I'm gonna add some
limes for color mainly,
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a little bit of
lime juice as well.
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So just quarter
of these long ways,
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fire them in.
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And I'm just
gonna squeeze one in
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just to add some juice.
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Well, that's it.
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And some mint, always
adds an amazing taste to drink.
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And because you're drinking it,
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you want to make
sure it's chopped up
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really, really fine.
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You don't wanna
be choking on some,
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some large pieces of
mint, that in as well.
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And we got better it serve,
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all we gonna do is
add some sparkling water,
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so I've got some
sparkling spirits of water
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or soda water, and some ice,
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but we gonna do that
right before we serve.
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Every morning at my cafA(C),
we prepare all the vegetables
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and ingredients for the salads,
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so that when it comes to
assemble, it's an easy job
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and that's what
we've come to here.
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So we got that sweet
potato beautifully cooked,
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so this is what we gonna
mixing straight in the bowl,
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we gonna be serving in.
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Has a beautiful
caramel or sweet potato.
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I got these lovely fresh
broccoli and cauliflower.
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Look at those amazing colors.
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So it's basically
the bulk of that salads,
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now we want to add lots
of yummy, delicious flavors.
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So this is a
green curry it seems.
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So I got some green curry paste
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and that's available
for most super markets
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in health stores,
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make sure you don't get
the ones is shrimp paste
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or herbal things like that.
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So we just gonna put in,
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around about a
teaspoon of this curry paste.
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You don't need much at all.
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Little bit of water.
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And I also got
some lemon grass paste,
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which is available at
most supermarkets as well.
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You could use fresh
lemon grass and chop it up.
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But this is much easier.
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This provides a
really delicious flavor start
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for the salad.
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And the reason we
mix some water in this
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because we want to make
sure it distributes evenly.
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So just gonna put
that over like that.
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Doesn't need much at all.
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We gonna add the
dressing that we made before.
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So around about half
a cup of that dressing
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and little bit of salt,
a quarter of a teaspoon.
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And we got these
great bamboo shoots,
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this is a nice ingredient
to have anything Thai.
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Again you can get
it from health shops,
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some
supermarkets in the Asian oil.
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And this just a
little bit of some bamboo
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you can just plug into the salad
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to make it more
authentic in times.
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I just gonna drain them.
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We don't want water
floating around in the salad
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so try and get
most of the water out,
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I'm gonna add them in as well.
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And then for color
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nothing like a good
old red pepper to color
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'cause we are using
the other salad diced,
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I'm gonna slice this
one, so if you are doing that,
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repeating a
particular ingredient in a meal,
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make sure you
prepare in a different way.
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Lots of nicely salted
and sliced, there we go.
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We gonna do just
tablespoon of honey
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or date puree just
to sweeten it up a bit.
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And I take these
whole ingredients.
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Again get your hands in
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make sure they
are washed of course.
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And just combine all those
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delicious flavors
ingredients around.
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And we make that salads in big,
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big buckets every morning,
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and just toss around all
these deliciously colorful
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and great
ingredients with dressings
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and flavors and
things like this.
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As you can you see the
broccoli pokes through,
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and that looks
absolutely amazing.
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And to garnish
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I have like a bit of
fresh cilantro or coriander,
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I'll just throw
some of that on top
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and the salad is
ready for the table.
00:20:45.37\00:20:48.24
My favorite lettuce is
romaine or cos lettuce,
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I'm gonna use
this for the cos salad.
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And this is just a
delicious crisp green lettuce.
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So if in doubt,
00:20:58.99\00:21:00.32
cos or romaine is
just the way to go.
00:21:00.36\00:21:02.49
So just gonna cut it down low,
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and they just got
beautiful, beautiful leaves
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so we just kind of just
put on the salad platter
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just like that,
we're not gonna chop it up.
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Look at these beautiful little
many half things you can get,
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many put some lettuce there.
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Just absolutely beautiful,
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so it just gonna be a
leafy leaves like that,
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just platter up, so
it looks nice and even.
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We gonna add something
now, it's a cento tomatoes,
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which give a lovely flavor.
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Cos salad would
traditionally have things like
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cheese and bacon
and, and try these
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but you can make it really nice
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healthy plant based one.
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So just slice
the cento tomatoes,
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you can get these
from any supermarket.
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Just nice and thinly.
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I do a couple more,
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just try to avoid as
much oil often as you can.
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Just gonna sprinkle
all those over like that.
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For just a bit for color.
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Avocado is a great
ingredient as well,
00:22:06.69\00:22:10.83
so I'd just slice
the avocado in half,
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open it up and
this is a good one.
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Look at that beautiful,
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stab the stone
don't cut yourself.
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The stone off.
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Just peal it off and
then we gonna dice it
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into once in a
medium or half inch cubes.
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Just like this.
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And again cut
marks on your chopping.
00:22:37.59\00:22:40.46
Chop two halves at a time,
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and it's gonna just
driven right across there.
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Just like that, few black buds,
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make sure you get them out.
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And then we just gonna
sprinkle over this dressing.
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Just drizzle over like that.
00:23:02.58\00:23:04.45
So you don't totally drown up,
00:23:07.22\00:23:08.55
you can see the
ingredients coming through
00:23:08.58\00:23:10.49
and a beautiful fresh
croutons over the top as well.
00:23:10.52\00:23:15.16
You got yourself a deliciously
healthy Caesar Salad.
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Very yummy.
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I'll often cook
off a batch of lentils
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and put them in the
freezer and that way it's great,
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you can use
them any if you want.
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What we have to do is
put them in the colander,
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and then just pour some
boiling water over the top
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and make sure
defrost reasonably quickly.
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And pour some hot water,
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you can also use canned
lentils if you want as well.
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Might as run some more
hot water over as well.
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We can cook here on the
day, what do you want to do.
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It's great to get your freezer
stocked of lots of lovely
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ingredients out
that you can use.
00:24:00.67\00:24:04.81
There we go, make
sure to defrost it now,
00:24:04.84\00:24:07.71
make sure to get as much
water out of them as you can.
00:24:07.74\00:24:13.45
You don't want too much
water floating around in salad
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into a mixing bowl.
00:24:16.12\00:24:19.55
So it is three to
four cups of lentils,
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beetroot, let
see how it's going?
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Look at that,
00:24:25.29\00:24:28.06
that shrunk a lot,
00:24:28.10\00:24:30.10
there as you can see
00:24:30.13\00:24:31.47
it's a soft, very
spices and very sweet,
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you are gonna get those
hands of the clove panel here.
00:24:37.54\00:24:40.74
And normally you put
a bake beetroot in that
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will probably take
about an hour to cook,
00:24:43.91\00:24:46.18
so I gonna see
if a little beetroot
00:24:46.21\00:24:48.48
what could be
wonderful in the salad.
00:24:48.52\00:24:51.12
So beetroot, lentils
and we gonna add some color,
00:24:55.52\00:25:00.00
so we got a yellow pepper here.
00:25:00.03\00:25:04.00
And we just chop this up
into little fine, fine dices.
00:25:04.03\00:25:11.31
So once that's here, we
can throw that in as well.
00:25:27.22\00:25:31.19
I'm not actually gonna make
a specific dressing this time,
00:25:31.23\00:25:33.26
but just throw
in some ingredients,
00:25:33.29\00:25:35.26
we have some
whole grain mustard,
00:25:35.30\00:25:37.17
so we are gonna
add a tablespoon of it.
00:25:37.20\00:25:42.64
Two tablespoons of
sweet chilly sauce,
00:25:42.67\00:25:44.97
half teaspoon of salt,
00:25:49.28\00:25:50.61
juice of a lemon,
00:25:53.88\00:25:56.02
so it's kind of a
dressing as it as we go
00:25:56.05\00:25:57.59
as we make the salad,
it saves a bit of time,
00:25:57.62\00:26:00.12
we could have
actually put these ingredients
00:26:00.16\00:26:01.76
and mix them together.
00:26:01.79\00:26:03.19
There is nothing to
at least in this blending
00:26:03.22\00:26:05.59
or anything like that,
00:26:05.63\00:26:08.00
and just a clove of
garlic, and the garlic press,
00:26:08.03\00:26:11.10
squeeze it through
just a little bit in there
00:26:11.13\00:26:13.50
to just give it
a bit of a flavor.
00:26:13.54\00:26:16.94
And some dash of honey
00:26:16.97\00:26:19.57
or date puree for sweetness.
00:26:19.61\00:26:22.24
And then we just
gonna mix this around.
00:26:22.28\00:26:25.41
And our salad
would nearly be done.
00:26:25.45\00:26:27.32
Now a little bit of oil,
00:26:27.35\00:26:29.05
so you can put a little bit
of olive oil in this as well,
00:26:29.08\00:26:31.95
just a dash.
00:26:31.99\00:26:36.26
And then we gonna
garnish this with mint.
00:26:36.29\00:26:38.76
And it's gonna be finished
and ready for the table.
00:26:38.79\00:26:41.40
Take nice bowl.
00:26:43.26\00:26:44.90
And this
beautiful beetroot flavors
00:26:49.64\00:26:51.21
will come out really nicely.
00:26:51.24\00:26:53.07
And just a really good,
00:26:56.75\00:27:01.12
nice big bunch of mint,
00:27:01.15\00:27:03.15
some color and just
some extra fragrance
00:27:03.18\00:27:06.22
will kind of blend
really nicely with the cloves
00:27:06.25\00:27:08.82
and the
sweetness of the beetroot.
00:27:08.86\00:27:11.73
And here we have
four delicious salads
00:27:17.57\00:27:19.70
from my salad bar at my cafes.
00:27:19.73\00:27:21.87
Put them together in
a bowl with some hummus
00:27:21.90\00:27:23.91
and you got
yourself a complete meal.
00:27:23.94\00:27:26.31
Thank you for
joining me today on Cook:30.
00:27:26.34\00:27:28.48
I hope you've
learned some new things
00:27:28.51\00:27:30.05
and I look forward to
cooking with you next time.
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