Welcome to Cook: 30.
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I'm Jeremy Dixon
from the Revive Cafes
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in Auckland, New Zealand,
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and I also write the
Revive Cafe Cookbooks.
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And today I'm gonna show you
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how you can
make cafe style meals
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in your very own home.
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Cook: 30 food is all
about using whole foods.
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Food that's rich in
nutrients and energy.
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We're gonna be using
lots of proteins like nuts,
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beans and legumes.
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Whole grains like
brown rice and quinoa.
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Lots of fresh
fruits and vegetables,
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and tying it all together
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with great international
flavors and herbs and spices.
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And the best part
about Cook: 30 food
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is you don't have to
slave for hours in the kitchen.
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In just 30 minutes you can cook
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a great healthy
meal for your family
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and I'm now gonna show you how.
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And it's gonna be
easier than you thought.
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On today's menu we have a
bit of an Asian theme going on.
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We're gonna start with
a Asian peanut stir fry.
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It's really delicious.
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We're gonna serve on
the side honey glazed tofu.
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Also, got a great green
salad with Asian sesame greens.
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And on the side
we have some edamame
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which are soybeans,
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which are very
delicious and a nice snack food.
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And to finish off,
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refreshing sliced
pineapple with mint and lime.
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To make sure you want to be
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able to cook
healthy meals quickly
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you need to make sure
your kitchen's set up.
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So we got a nice
clear bench space here.
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Good chopping
board. Nice sharp knife.
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We've boiled the jug.
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And we got two pans on,
nice and hot and ready to go.
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It will save us
quite a few minutes
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in the cooking process.
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First thing to get
underway is the stir fry.
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We want to
start with some onion.
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We're gonna start
with some red onion today,
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primary for color.
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I'm just gonna slice
this up into long slices.
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So this will be the thing that
would take the longest to cook.
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You really want to
make the onions cook well.
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So start off with
a tablespoon of oil.
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And get these onions underway.
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Press them down a bit.
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And just start on
the other vegetables.
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So I've got a
nice red bell pepper
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and we're gonna just
chop this up into cubes.
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We're doing
this nice and chunky.
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Making sure you're
caramelizing all the cuts.
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We're got a squash or a
courgette or a zucchini,
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whatever they call
them in your country.
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And all these different colors
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just add up to
make a great dish.
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So when you're cooking make sure
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you're choosing
lots of different colors.
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I'm cutting
these nice and chunky.
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They're gonna be
taking a while to cook.
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And they'll become
smaller and more bite sized
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when they get
through the cooking process.
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Let's give that
a bit of a stir up.
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We'll just let that sit
there for a couple of minutes.
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We're gonna
also add some ginger,
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and this ginger puree
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is a great addition to any meal.
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So I've got two table
spoons of ginger puree.
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You can use
normal chopped ginger
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if you like, if
you've got it fresh.
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This is such so quick.
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Garlic. So grab
two pieces of garlic.
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They're quite small
so I might grab three.
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And then the garlic press.
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I'm just gonna squeeze them
right through into the dish.
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Look at that.
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Just gonna leave that their
on a reasonably medium heat.
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Just to...
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just saute away and
those will caramelize
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and come nice,
nice and flavor some
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and provide a really
great base for the stir fry.
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Just putting my
things in the bin.
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Keep it clear work
space at all times.
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So we're gonna
do some sesame tofu
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which is a lovely Asian product.
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You can get this
at most supermarkets.
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Just gonna drain it.
Get most of the water out.
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And we're just going to
cut it into nice big slices.
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Might need a bit
of knife help there.
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Just slice it up,
this is firm tofu,
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go for the
firmest tofu you can get.
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I mean, just stays
together a bit easier
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and just into nice
probably, what's that?
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One centimeter,
half inch, third inch,
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kind of, sized pieces of tofu.
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Got another hot pan
here. Nice non stick pan.
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Table spoon of oil, we
don't need much at all.
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And we're just going to
start that cooking away.
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Whoa!
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Water and oil always
seem to splatter a bit.
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So I might turn
it down a little bit.
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And here we go.
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That'll just gently cook away.
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You want to get some
of the moisture out of it,
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and it will just come
to become golden brown.
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Say it will probably take
a couple of minutes just to,
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just to gently pan fry the--
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Now to go with that afterwards
is a really nice marinade.
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So we're gonna add
some-- Make a nice marinade.
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We're gonna use honey.
So what have we got here?
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We have four
tablespoons of liquid honey.
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One, two, three, four.
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Some soy sauce or tamari.
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And we need two
tablespoons of that.
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That's about one
tablespoon, two tablespoons.
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Gonna use some lemon juice.
Just the juice of one lemon.
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Just squeeze it through
your fingers to catch the,
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catch the pips.
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You can use lemon
squeezer if you want,
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but I'm all for shortcuts
when making quick meals.
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And some more ginger.
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Never have too much ginger,
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so another two
tablespoons of ginger.
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And just add a
little bit of water,
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probably about four
tablespoons of water.
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And we give that a
bit of a stir around.
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And this will make
a really nice marinade
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that we're gonna pour
over the tofu when it's cooked.
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Traditionally
marinades, you probably marinade
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the tofu before you cooked it,
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but I think it's much
better to cook the tofu
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that's nice and hot,
when we add this marinade,
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it just sucks it into the tofu
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and flavors it
really, really quickly.
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So we're not gonna do this now,
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but we're just
getting this job underway
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so that when
the tofu is finished
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we can put it straight on.
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So just leave that there.
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Also we're gonna be putting
sultanas in the stir fry.
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And there is
nothing better than--
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Sultanas come in
normally quite dry like that.
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But it's really nice to
give it a bit of boiling water.
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And we're just gonna soak them.
Got some boiling water there.
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We got one cup of sultanas.
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And in about
probably five minutes
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they're gonna be
nice and plum and juicy.
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When we add them to our stir fry
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they'll be just a nice,
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really nice,
juicy sultana stir fry.
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Now we're gonna
make the most delicious
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and easy salad
you'll ever have seen.
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A sesame Asian greens.
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But in
supermarket there's all these
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delicious green vegetables.
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This is bok choy. I
found this one today as well.
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I've got no idea
what the name of it is,
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but it looks green
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and it's
delicious and it's fresh.
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So just go to your supermarket,
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anything that
looks green and fresh
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and it will probably be fine.
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Got some, I think these
are mustard greens as well.
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Just, just a nice big handful
of beautiful green produce.
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Just chop off the
ends. We don't want those.
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They're a little bit hard.
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Might chop a
little bit more off.
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And basically slice
it up. Slice small up.
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And don't forget
these nice end buds
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can be really nice
and crunchy and juicy.
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So don't leave
too many of them off.
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Chop it up.
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Always going across the grain,
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'cause some of them
can be quite stringy.
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But try to eat one
of these by it self,
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it's very, very chewy.
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But the minute you cut it,
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it becomes a very
pleasant experience.
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Chop these up
into one inch strips.
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Pour them in a nice
bowl to present it with.
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So these beautiful greens
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full of so many
vitamins and nutrients.
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Gonna just add just
a bit of color as well.
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So I've got another
bell pepper or capsicum here.
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And we're just
gonna julienne this up,
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so it's nice and finely sliced.
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Be really careful
when you get to the end,
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because it's very easy
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for the knife to
slide into fingers.
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So just slow down
when you get to the end.
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Taking your fingers off
is not a good thing to do
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when you're cooking.
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Give that a nice
little mingle around.
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And then what we're
gonna do is drizzle some honey.
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So probably about two
tablespoons of honey over it.
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Going to
drizzle some sesame oil,
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has a beautiful flavor,
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add the one-two table spoons
depending on how much you want.
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Just give it a light, kind
of, pick up and dress around.
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Little, kind of,
drizzle through the salad.
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Perhaps, just
another top-off with honey.
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And then just a
bit of sesame seeds.
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We got white sesame seeds.
Just a light sprinkling on top.
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And some black sesame seeds.
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And these are
reasonably available
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from all your health
stores and some supermarkets.
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And how simple is
that salad for something
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that's very delicious,
green healthy and fresh?
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So yeah, just go for those
greens in your supermarket.
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They're fantastic.
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The next thing I'm
going to prepare is edamame
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which are soybeans and
you buy these frozen from--
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Most supermarkets have them,
Asian stores definitely do.
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And these are just
little soybeans in pods.
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Just like that.
Quite solid and frozen.
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So we're just going to
put this in the, in a bowl.
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Oops!
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And then pour some
boiling water over it.
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And in about five or ten minutes
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it will be nicely defrosted
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and also, you don't
really need to cook it.
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Just needs to be defrosted
and, kind of, warmed up.
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Sometimes come pre-cooked,
sometimes they come just raw.
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So you just have
to just play around
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with the ones you get.
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So just going to let them
sit for a couple of minutes
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five or ten minutes,
and that will be ready to--
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When we prepare--
Ready to serve our meal.
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Our meal is well underway.
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Our tofu is nicely
browning in the pan.
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The stir fry is caramelizing
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and nearly ready to add
all the flavor ingredients.
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We got the
marinade done for the tofu.
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Sultanas over there are soaking.
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We got the edamame cooking
there in the boiling water.
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And we finished
the green Asian salad.
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If you just
joined us on Cook 30?
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We're cooking a
delicious Asian meal.
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We have an
Asian peanut stir fry.
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Accompanied by
honey glazed tofu.
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And on the side a deliciously
fresh Asian sesame green salad.
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We also are serving
with a side of edamame,
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that's soybeans.
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And to finish deliciously
fresh sliced pineapple
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with mint and lime.
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Now let's just
check on the tofu,
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see how that's going.
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We'll just flip
some of this over.
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Look at that, look how
golden brown that's going.
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Isn't that just beautiful?
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That's just lovely and
brown, so it's half done.
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So just flip all
these guys over here
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and we can do the other side.
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And this will soak up
our marinade beautifully
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when we get to that.
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Whoever said tofu is boring
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never added any kind of
flavors to it, but it's--
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Tofu just sucks up
the flavors amazingly.
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That's a great
ingredient to use.
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So the stir fry,
I'll just get this back up
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and running again.
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We'll just turn this up a bit.
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So these vegetables are
beautifully caramelized now.
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Getting nice,
and soft, and cooked,
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and these provide
a really great base
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for the rest of our stir fry.
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So we're going to start adding
lots of lovely flavors of this.
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So first, it
being a peanut stir fry,
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you wanna add some
peanut that's happening.
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So we'll start with two
tablespoons of peanut butter.
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One and two.
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And we're gonna
mix this with around
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about four tablespoons of water.
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And this will just--
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You just put the peanut butter,
now this is, this lays as it is.
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It won't mix and you
have clumps of peanut butter.
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So this will give
like a nice peanut sauce.
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It's kind of like
the cheese peanut sauce
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that we can put through.
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So we're just gonna pour this
over the stir fry like that.
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We're gonna add some
honey. Nice healthy sweetener.
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Two tablespoons of honey.
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Two tablespoons of
soy sauce or tamari
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just to give it a
bit of nice saltiness.
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I'll just turn it up a
bit, so it starts cooking.
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We'll just start
stirring it together.
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And these flavors
will start to infuse
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in all those vegetables
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and make them
taste really yummy.
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Gonna put in some
spring onions or scallions.
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So just gonna just
slice these thinly.
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It's always good to have things
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and minimize only your chopping.
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You don't want to chop every
single scallion individually.
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So let that cook
in there as well.
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And will put some peanuts.
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We'll put half a cup of peanuts.
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Generous half cup.
It's turned out bit more.
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And you can see it's
coming together nicely.
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Now the most important thing
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of a stir fry is obviously rice.
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So in the fridge what
I've done is yesterday
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we had a rice meal and
we had some rice leftover.
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And this is brown rice,
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so whenever you have cooked rice
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always cook a little bit
extra and put it in your fridge.
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And that'll last,
last a couple of days
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and you can use it in a stir fry
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and you don't have to go
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to all the trouble
of cooking it again.
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So if you're
thinking ahead like that,
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it always works out better.
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So we're just gonna put in
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two to three cups of
brown rice that's precooked.
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Or you can just
cook it, cook it before,
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at the beginning of this
meal if you want to as well.
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I'm just gonna fold that through
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and that rice is just gonna
soak up all that lovely flavor.
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Look at that.
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So stir fry, you
don't want to be too,
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generally as quite have
a little bit of moisture,
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that's just not a liquid event.
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So it's just a
combination of all this rice,
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but you don't
want it to be too dry.
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So as you can see, we've
got a nice, moist peanut butter.
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The soy sauce and the honey
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just giving it
that bit of moisture
00:16:46.37\00:16:47.80
to make it into
authentic stir fry.
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We also got these sultanas,
which are actually raisins,
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I got that wrong
before. So these--
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Sultanas and
raisins are interchangeable,
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we can use either one.
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I generally prefer raisins.
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So they're lovely and
plump now, look at that.
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Just going to drain them.
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Put them in as well.
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And that essence is the
major part of the stir fry.
00:17:15.86\00:17:19.00
And that rice
will just be heating up
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with the heat there,
doesn't need to cook it
00:17:20.60\00:17:22.34
just needs to warm up.
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So it's pretty much done.
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Now the thing tastes actually
very delicious as it is,
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but there's a few
things we can do now
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that just make it awesome.
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And this is three ingredients
and the first one is mint.
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So a good big handful of mint.
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Again, cut in half and
then chop it up finely.
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And that, the smell of this
is just beautiful and amazing.
00:17:46.73\00:17:50.73
Some cilantro or coriander,
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depending on what
country you come from.
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Same herb. Chop that up as well.
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And also lime juice.
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Lime juice is just
gonna add amazing flavor.
00:18:04.28\00:18:06.88
So this mint, the
cilantro, and the lime juice,
00:18:06.92\00:18:09.15
is just going to
add this amazing flavor
00:18:09.18\00:18:13.02
right through the stir fry.
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And that's just gonna
be humming in your mouth
00:18:14.42\00:18:16.26
and you'll just love all
these beautiful Asian flavors.
00:18:16.29\00:18:21.76
So I'm just going
to turn that off now
00:18:21.80\00:18:23.13
and that'll just
continue just to keep warm.
00:18:23.16\00:18:25.43
So that when
we're ready to serve
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it will be ready to go.
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Might just put a
bit more lime juice on.
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Limes, you don't have pips,
00:18:33.64\00:18:34.98
so you can just
squeeze them like that.
00:18:35.01\00:18:37.55
We might just add
a few extra limes,
00:18:37.58\00:18:39.75
just so people can
add a bit more lime juice
00:18:39.78\00:18:42.42
on themselves as well.
00:18:42.45\00:18:49.92
And this beautiful fresh mint
and cilantro herb mix on top.
00:18:54.03\00:19:00.40
And the stir fry will be
one of the best stir fry's
00:19:00.44\00:19:02.54
you have ever tasted.
00:19:02.57\00:19:07.61
Okay, so this tofu
is looking amazing.
00:19:07.64\00:19:11.45
Let's just check on this here.
00:19:11.48\00:19:12.85
Look at that, nice
and brown on both sides,
00:19:12.88\00:19:14.85
it's nice and firm,
it's cooked up beautifully.
00:19:14.88\00:19:17.49
So we got a reasonably
hot, hot, hot pan here
00:19:17.52\00:19:20.26
and marinade, we're
just gonna pour over.
00:19:20.29\00:19:24.23
And that's just gonna bubble
and the water's gonna evaporate
00:19:24.26\00:19:28.10
and it's gonna
become a nice sticky mess
00:19:28.13\00:19:29.80
and it's just gonna--
00:19:29.83\00:19:31.17
Or not a mess, a nice sticky goo
00:19:31.20\00:19:32.70
that's just gonna
just soak into that tofu
00:19:32.73\00:19:35.14
and just make it taste amazing.
00:19:35.17\00:19:37.44
So again I'll just turn
the heat up on that a bit more
00:19:37.47\00:19:40.91
and let that bubble away
and it will just caramelize
00:19:40.94\00:19:42.88
and become really
nice, beautiful tofu.
00:19:42.91\00:19:46.55
And all you need to do
that is to just garnish it
00:19:46.58\00:19:48.02
and it's ready to serve.
00:19:48.05\00:19:52.05
And now it's dessert time,
delicious, fresh pineapple.
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Now before we start dessert,
we've been cutting onion,
00:19:55.66\00:19:58.59
and, you know, non
dessert things on this board,
00:19:58.63\00:20:01.00
so make sure you throw
your board to the other side
00:20:01.03\00:20:03.00
and use the non onion side.
00:20:03.03\00:20:05.03
'Cause onion flavored pineapple
00:20:05.07\00:20:06.40
is probably not the best thing
to impress your guest with.
00:20:06.43\00:20:09.14
Lovely big pineapple.
00:20:09.17\00:20:10.77
Best way to do a
pineapple is chop the ends off.
00:20:10.81\00:20:14.94
Just like that.
00:20:14.98\00:20:17.58
And then we're just
gonna slice down the side
00:20:17.61\00:20:21.05
in a, kind of, a rounded motion.
00:20:21.08\00:20:23.35
And making sure we're
getting all of those eyes.
00:20:23.39\00:20:26.55
So just as simple as that.
00:20:26.59\00:20:27.92
And this is the fasted
way to slice a pineapple.
00:20:27.96\00:20:31.86
Just like that.
00:20:31.89\00:20:34.20
Now this is a really
healthy dessert, just fruit.
00:20:34.23\00:20:36.06
I mean, you
could give your family
00:20:36.10\00:20:37.43
or your guests ice
cream, but I mean, eating
00:20:37.47\00:20:40.00
that type of thing all the time
00:20:40.04\00:20:41.37
is really going to
impact your health.
00:20:41.40\00:20:42.74
And if you have, you
know, make healthy choices like
00:20:42.77\00:20:44.51
fresh fruit, and
fresh vegetarian food,
00:20:44.54\00:20:47.08
you're gonna
notice a huge increase
00:20:47.11\00:20:49.11
in your vitality, and energy,
and just things you do in life.
00:20:49.14\00:20:53.05
So it really does
pay to eat healthy.
00:20:53.08\00:20:54.52
When you eat healthy in
your life it's gonna pay off.
00:20:54.55\00:20:56.89
Not to mention the fact that
00:20:56.92\00:20:58.25
you're gonna live
many years longer.
00:20:58.29\00:21:00.06
So you cut your
pineapple in half
00:21:00.09\00:21:02.22
and then just, just cut the bit
out of the middle, like that.
00:21:02.26\00:21:06.19
So just-- As a little triangle.
00:21:06.23\00:21:08.30
And that should just come out.
00:21:08.33\00:21:09.93
So you don't want the
tough center bit there.
00:21:09.96\00:21:12.30
And we'll do it with
the other side as well.
00:21:12.33\00:21:18.41
There we go. Oh
no, broken in half.
00:21:18.44\00:21:21.08
Just have to use
it as small pieces.
00:21:21.11\00:21:23.45
So again, just
chop into quarters
00:21:23.48\00:21:26.92
and then basically
into nice little segments.
00:21:26.95\00:21:32.59
People can pick up bite sized.
00:21:32.62\00:21:34.82
And when you lay it
out, try and lay it out
00:21:34.86\00:21:36.52
on your platter,
pick it up on one strip
00:21:36.56\00:21:39.03
and then just
fan it out like that.
00:21:39.06\00:21:42.73
And that's the nicest
way of doing pineapple
00:21:42.76\00:21:46.84
or any fruit for that matter.
00:21:46.87\00:21:48.77
So again, we can
do the other half.
00:21:48.80\00:21:55.11
Nice thin bite sized
pieces, assemble them together
00:21:55.14\00:21:59.31
and just fan them out like that.
00:21:59.35\00:22:05.85
So presentation
is really important
00:22:05.89\00:22:07.39
when you're doing food
and it just takes a couple
00:22:07.42\00:22:09.36
of extra seconds in the
kitchen to turn something, like,
00:22:09.39\00:22:11.89
you know, you can just
put it lumps of pineapple,
00:22:11.93\00:22:14.00
but just a few extra,
00:22:14.03\00:22:15.36
you know, bits of
care and attention,
00:22:15.40\00:22:17.00
you can make a dish look
really, really beautiful.
00:22:17.03\00:22:20.97
So there is the pineapple,
we got some more mint.
00:22:21.00\00:22:22.57
Again, mint is a
great Asian flavor.
00:22:22.60\00:22:26.07
So I'm just
going to chop this up.
00:22:26.11\00:22:27.78
Oh, there's a few
black bits in there.
00:22:27.81\00:22:30.25
Otherwise it's
looking pretty good.
00:22:30.28\00:22:31.85
Chopping your,
kind of, ends off.
00:22:31.88\00:22:34.05
So just chop it in half
00:22:34.08\00:22:36.08
and then just crumble
it together and just--
00:22:36.12\00:22:38.72
We'll do this one
really, really fine.
00:22:38.75\00:22:41.16
And this beautiful-- Oh,
the flavor is just amazing.
00:22:41.19\00:22:44.76
So make sure you get some
mint, or a plant, a mint plant.
00:22:44.79\00:22:47.90
We're gonna just
drizzle that over, like that.
00:22:47.93\00:22:51.83
That's probably enough.
00:22:51.87\00:22:53.40
Gonna through
some lime juice over.
00:22:53.44\00:22:55.70
And again, just put it in half,
00:22:55.74\00:22:58.04
give it a squeeze
over, you don't need much,
00:22:58.07\00:23:00.24
just to give that
little extra flavor,
00:23:00.28\00:23:02.98
and this beautiful
pineapple with the mint
00:23:03.01\00:23:06.18
and the lime
will just be amazing.
00:23:06.21\00:23:08.38
So healthy and it
gonna, you know, energize you
00:23:08.42\00:23:10.79
and give you lots of energy
00:23:10.82\00:23:12.15
and vitality
compared to if you served,
00:23:12.19\00:23:13.52
you know,
something like ice cream.
00:23:13.56\00:23:15.19
So there you go
very simple dessert
00:23:15.22\00:23:16.93
and kids will love
it, pick it up and eat it.
00:23:16.96\00:23:19.93
Okay tofu, I turned--.
It's pretty much done now.
00:23:19.96\00:23:23.33
Check this out, its
all lovely and caramelized.
00:23:23.37\00:23:26.47
It's all gooey.
00:23:26.50\00:23:27.84
So I'm just gonna
prepare this over here.
00:23:27.87\00:23:30.64
Move some things out of the way.
00:23:30.67\00:23:33.78
So I'm just gonna
basically pick it out
00:23:33.81\00:23:36.58
and just put it on this platter,
00:23:36.61\00:23:40.72
in a semi kind of arranged way.
00:23:40.75\00:23:48.69
Try as much of that
sauce as you can with it.
00:23:56.46\00:24:00.14
It might just
get up a little bit.
00:24:00.17\00:24:04.21
So don't just
make it look perfect,
00:24:04.24\00:24:05.57
but just kind of semi-cared for.
00:24:05.61\00:24:08.31
And on top of it
we're just gonna put
00:24:08.34\00:24:10.25
some black and
white sesame seeds.
00:24:10.28\00:24:13.05
My favorite
garnishing thing to use.
00:24:13.08\00:24:18.55
Just like that.
It's looking great.
00:24:18.59\00:24:23.86
And again just a
small drizzle of honey
00:24:23.89\00:24:26.19
just to give it
that nice little glow.
00:24:26.23\00:24:30.13
And that's ready
to go on the table.
00:24:30.17\00:24:31.97
Very nicely with this sir fry.
00:24:32.00\00:24:33.94
Also, thought I might just add
00:24:33.97\00:24:35.30
some chopped
peanuts to the stir fry.
00:24:35.34\00:24:37.54
So just add a, just a
bit of a handful of those
00:24:37.57\00:24:39.97
just to give it
some more authentic
00:24:40.01\00:24:41.91
peanut taste and it kind
of presents better as well.
00:24:41.94\00:24:45.91
Now the edamame, the soybeans,
00:24:45.95\00:24:47.72
these little
babies are all cooked now,
00:24:47.75\00:24:49.45
just been sitting
in this boiling water
00:24:49.48\00:24:50.82
for about 20 minutes.
00:24:50.85\00:24:52.49
We're gonna drain them.
00:24:52.52\00:24:54.82
You wanna drain
them reasonably well.
00:24:54.86\00:25:02.50
Just pour it back in the bowl.
00:25:03.73\00:25:06.03
I'm just going to be
very lightly salt them.
00:25:06.07\00:25:09.00
So we're talking like,
under quarter of a teaspoon.
00:25:09.04\00:25:11.47
Just a very
little bit of a salt,
00:25:11.51\00:25:12.91
you don't need much at all.
00:25:12.94\00:25:14.54
Just a sprinkle.
00:25:14.58\00:25:16.01
And just a touch of oil,
again, just a little drop.
00:25:16.04\00:25:20.98
Just to add a little bit
of a extra flavor to them.
00:25:21.02\00:25:25.29
Toss them around.
00:25:25.32\00:25:29.66
And what happens is
you don't actually eat
00:25:29.69\00:25:31.06
the whole edamame,
you just basically eat it
00:25:31.09\00:25:33.73
and you use your
teeth, just slide it out
00:25:33.76\00:25:37.27
and then it just
pops, there you go,
00:25:37.30\00:25:38.93
pops out of the edamame
00:25:38.97\00:25:40.30
and then you eat them like that.
00:25:40.34\00:25:41.67
And they come out.
00:25:41.70\00:25:43.04
So you just put
them on the table,
00:25:43.07\00:25:44.41
pick them up with your
hand, and eat them like that.
00:25:44.44\00:25:47.48
It's a lovely,
fresh little thing
00:25:47.51\00:25:48.84
to have on the table
to make it interesting.
00:25:48.88\00:25:51.55
Pour it in to the
bowl. And there we go.
00:25:51.58\00:25:55.82
Stir fry is done, tofu
is done, edamame is done,
00:25:55.85\00:25:59.89
Asian salad is
done and the pineapple.
00:25:59.92\00:26:02.46
Thirty minutes, fantastic.
00:26:02.49\00:26:07.00
And there we have
another Cook: 30 meal.
00:26:07.03\00:26:09.70
We have the Asian peanut satay,
00:26:09.73\00:26:13.00
we have the lovely
Asian salad with sesame,
00:26:13.03\00:26:16.44
just delicious.
00:26:16.47\00:26:17.81
And we got the edamame as well.
00:26:17.84\00:26:21.44
The tofu with the ginger
00:26:21.48\00:26:23.01
and the honey
infused all through it.
00:26:23.04\00:26:25.65
And we got this
beautiful pineapple.
00:26:25.68\00:26:27.62
Hasn't God made
some amazing fruits
00:26:27.65\00:26:29.58
that we can enjoy?
00:26:29.62\00:26:30.99
I just love this.
00:26:31.02\00:26:32.35
Thanks for
joining me on Cook: 30,
00:26:32.39\00:26:33.86
and I look forward
to seeing you next time.
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