Welcome to Healthy Living, I'm you host Margot Marshall. 00:00:01.36\00:00:03.30 Because there is so much deskilling in Australia... 00:00:03.33\00:00:07.14 Thanks to take aways, frozen meals, packet meals, 00:00:07.17\00:00:10.97 some people grow up never having so much as cut up a 00:00:11.01\00:00:14.84 fruit salad. How refreshing to see each of the three children 00:00:14.88\00:00:19.35 in the Ramirez family assisting their mother to prepare 00:00:19.38\00:00:22.92 the family meals. Stay tuned. 00:00:22.95\00:00:25.62 Welcome to the Mexican cooking class of the Ramirez family. 00:00:50.85\00:00:54.78 It's a pleasure to be here and we're going to be showing you 00:00:54.82\00:00:58.59 a very good tasty recipes so make sure you have your pen 00:00:58.62\00:01:03.89 and paper ready. 00:01:03.93\00:01:05.26 With me today I have my beautiful wife Susan... 00:01:05.29\00:01:08.90 Hello! And my beautiful daughter Talitha. 00:01:08.93\00:01:12.43 Hi! Which will be helping to make this recipe a reality. 00:01:12.47\00:01:16.87 So the recipe that we have it's called Pico de galic. 00:01:16.91\00:01:22.44 Pico de galic means the beak of a rooster. 00:01:22.48\00:01:27.85 There are many theories where this name came from. 00:01:27.88\00:01:30.99 One of them says that it has to do with the chili 00:01:31.02\00:01:34.72 because the chili has like the beak of a rooster. 00:01:34.76\00:01:39.09 Some say that's the origin of this. Some other people 00:01:39.13\00:01:43.47 say it's called Pico de galic because you eat it 00:01:43.50\00:01:48.10 like a rooster, with your fingers you pick things 00:01:48.14\00:01:52.14 on this recipe and another name of this recipe is called 00:01:52.17\00:01:58.75 De salsa of the flag and that's because if you notice 00:01:58.78\00:02:04.65 the ingredients that we are going to be using... 00:02:04.69\00:02:08.06 The Mexican flag has green, white and red and this recipe 00:02:08.09\00:02:16.16 also is going to have elements that are green, white and red. 00:02:16.20\00:02:23.20 So in order to make this recipe we need to have fresh 00:02:23.24\00:02:29.48 ingredients, that's one of the secrets of this recipe, 00:02:29.51\00:02:33.35 you can just freshly chop them off and have them ready, 00:02:33.38\00:02:37.65 that's going to be the best thing. 00:02:37.69\00:02:39.09 So Susan tell us what are going to be the different 00:02:39.12\00:02:41.96 ingredients to be used? 00:02:41.99\00:02:43.32 Okay, so great, first we have our red tomatoes, 00:02:43.36\00:02:46.76 we have our white onion, we have our green chili pepper, 00:02:46.80\00:02:52.37 and we have our green cilantro. Along with some lime juice 00:02:52.40\00:02:57.34 a little bit of salt to taste, a pinch of oregano, 00:02:57.37\00:03:01.14 and we serve this with chips. 00:03:01.18\00:03:04.95 This is a very flexible recipe, you can have it in a little dish 00:03:04.98\00:03:13.82 together with some chips, you can put this over your beans, 00:03:13.86\00:03:17.79 you can make a burrito and put it inside of it, 00:03:17.83\00:03:20.93 so it is a nice flexible recipe easy to do and fast. 00:03:20.96\00:03:26.43 So let us get busy, let's see how we do this. 00:03:26.47\00:03:29.37 Alright Talitha, do you think this is going to be hard? 00:03:29.40\00:03:31.81 No. Go ahead and put that in, you can put it in and I'll... 00:03:31.84\00:03:38.71 One of the keys of Mexican food is that it is fresh. 00:03:38.75\00:03:43.28 So now we put in the chili's... We have the tomatoes an onion. 00:03:43.32\00:03:49.52 You can put as much as you want, a little bit just to give 00:03:49.56\00:03:53.80 taste, not so that it's spicy. Cilantro, lime juice. 00:03:53.83\00:03:59.40 Lime juice will bring antioxidants that will keep 00:03:59.43\00:04:05.47 the Salsa nice and fresh, it will actually stop to a certain 00:04:05.51\00:04:10.51 process, the oxidations process. 00:04:10.55\00:04:12.35 And just a pinch of Oregano. All right Talitha I think 00:04:12.38\00:04:18.19 the only thing left to do there is to stir it. Yeah. 00:04:18.22\00:04:21.79 So you want to mix those ingredients nicely so that 00:04:21.82\00:04:25.13 they're evenly distributed... and you can see the colors 00:04:25.16\00:04:28.50 of the Mexican flag there. 00:04:28.53\00:04:29.96 You know in a lot of Mexican households, 00:04:32.77\00:04:35.04 the mother of the house goes to the market every day 00:04:35.07\00:04:38.61 because she wants to have the best fresh ingredients 00:04:38.64\00:04:40.98 in her food so it works best just to go to the market 00:04:41.01\00:04:43.75 every day. It is nice to go and get your tomatoes 00:04:43.78\00:04:47.05 and your Cilantro and your onions, some basic things 00:04:47.08\00:04:52.29 in the Mexican household for cooking... 00:04:52.32\00:04:54.16 and that's all that you have for this recipe except for 00:04:54.19\00:04:58.79 to enjoy it. 00:04:58.83\00:05:00.16 That's right and there are some chips and you can actually dip 00:05:00.20\00:05:02.76 them there and enjoy them. I'm sure you are going to love 00:05:02.80\00:05:06.23 this simple recipe. 00:05:06.27\00:05:08.10 Now we are going to talk about a very important recipe, 00:05:11.27\00:05:14.64 especially if you are single, they say in Mexico 00:05:14.68\00:05:17.48 that you are not fit to get married unless you know how to 00:05:17.51\00:05:21.48 cook this dish. This dish is called Chilaquiles. 00:05:21.52\00:05:26.25 We'll be having a very useful helper...What is your name? 00:05:26.29\00:05:31.53 Rebekah. It is my middle daughter. 00:05:31.56\00:05:34.33 So this dish is a very old dish, it comes from the Indian word 00:05:34.36\00:05:42.14 Chilaquilittle and every house- hold has a variety of this. 00:05:42.17\00:05:48.91 So there are literally hundreds of verities of this recipe... 00:05:48.94\00:05:54.08 We'll be showing you a vanilla version that you can adapt, 00:05:54.12\00:05:59.32 add, remove, but this is the basis of the red Chilaquiles, 00:05:59.35\00:06:04.36 there is white and there is brown and so forth. 00:06:04.39\00:06:07.56 In this recipe what are we going to be using Susan? 00:06:07.60\00:06:11.60 For the base of our recipe we're using tomatoes and chili's 00:06:11.63\00:06:16.47 but we will cook those and we've already done that here 00:06:16.50\00:06:20.04 to make it go faster...We are also going to be using 00:06:20.08\00:06:23.58 about a tablespoon of Olive Oil once we have the salsa 00:06:23.61\00:06:27.98 all together, we have salt to taste, 2 tablespoons of garlic, 00:06:28.02\00:06:32.42 2 tablespoons of chicken like seasoning, and about a quarter 00:06:32.45\00:06:36.22 of an onion. Then for garnish we have avocado, sour cream 00:06:36.26\00:06:40.46 and refried beans. 00:06:40.50\00:06:41.93 The origin of this recipe is that people have tortillas 00:06:41.96\00:06:47.17 and these tortillas as they got older, people wanted to do 00:06:47.20\00:06:51.51 something with them, so what they did, they cut them 00:06:51.54\00:06:54.54 in pieces and this was the base of this recipe. 00:06:54.58\00:07:00.35 We are using chips for sake of speed, but you can also 00:07:00.38\00:07:08.26 do the same with some tortilla's in an oven over night 00:07:08.29\00:07:12.16 for a few hours and that will dry the tortilla and you can 00:07:12.19\00:07:16.70 cut it and also use it in this recipe. 00:07:16.73\00:07:19.63 So let's get busy on this recipe. Okay Eddie you get to do 00:07:19.67\00:07:24.74 the pleasure today, you're going to blend this for us. 00:07:24.77\00:07:27.28 Once he's got that blended Rebekah, you're going to give 00:07:27.31\00:07:34.55 him these three...So this is just the chili's and tomatoes... 00:07:34.58\00:07:44.69 Cooked in a little bit of water. Thank you. 00:07:44.73\00:07:49.26 This is also another fast recipe, very quick to make 00:07:49.30\00:07:56.20 and my girls really love it. Whenever they find out that 00:07:56.24\00:07:59.24 they're going to have Chila- quiles, everybody gets excited. 00:07:59.27\00:08:01.94 We'll add a few more of the ingredients, we'll be adding 00:08:13.05\00:08:16.59 the chicken style seasoning and a little bit more of 00:08:16.62\00:08:21.96 fresh onion and the garlic. 00:08:22.00\00:08:29.24 There you go. Thank you. And just a little blend, 00:08:30.91\00:08:43.49 a little bit more. 00:08:43.52\00:08:44.85 You can start to smell the nice smell of the onion and of the 00:09:01.30\00:09:08.98 garlic and the chili. So what we are going to do now is we are 00:09:09.01\00:09:13.78 is we're going to heat up a little bit of oil 00:09:13.82\00:09:15.52 and we're going to cook the salsa. 00:09:15.55\00:09:19.52 You'll see how fast this recipe is. Thank you. 00:09:19.55\00:09:27.66 Alright. So we're just going to let this cook for a couple 00:09:35.87\00:09:40.44 minutes and while this is cooking, I wanted to tell you 00:09:40.48\00:09:44.81 about the refried beans. Eddie where does the name refried 00:09:44.85\00:09:49.08 beans...did we fry our beans or how did that come about? 00:09:49.12\00:09:52.39 It comes from the word by the fact that when you have the 00:09:52.42\00:09:55.02 fresh beans, you use a little bit of oil and that process 00:09:55.06\00:10:03.37 of putting the beans in a little bit of oil...that's where the 00:10:03.40\00:10:07.54 name refried bean comes from. 00:10:07.57\00:10:09.47 So first you have your cooked beans, a lot of times we use 00:10:09.50\00:10:13.44 pinto beans and that's very traditional. 00:10:13.48\00:10:16.38 You can use black beans for this recipe, we use something 00:10:16.41\00:10:19.58 similar to pinto beans...so we have the pinto beans here 00:10:19.61\00:10:25.05 and they are refried. So we cook the pinto beans 00:10:25.09\00:10:27.92 and then we put them with a little bit of onion 00:10:27.96\00:10:31.83 and smashed it up and that's how we have our refried beans 00:10:31.86\00:10:35.03 and it tastes very good to eat together with Chilaquiles. 00:10:35.06\00:10:38.63 Something that is important here is that when you are using 00:10:38.67\00:10:41.97 you tomatoes and you cook them, you actually increase the amount 00:10:42.00\00:10:46.57 of nutrition in them because the heat breaks down the cells 00:10:46.61\00:10:52.51 and that releases the lycopene and actually the body's able to 00:10:52.55\00:10:57.65 absorb much more of that lycopene, so it's a good way 00:10:57.69\00:11:00.72 of increasing your lycopene in your diet. 00:11:00.76\00:11:03.26 By the way, very good for prostate health. 00:11:03.29\00:11:07.76 Once this sauce gets to be a little bit darker red, 00:11:07.80\00:11:14.30 the only thing left to do is to add your chips. 00:11:14.34\00:11:19.74 So depending on how much sauce you like, sometimes you like 00:11:19.77\00:11:27.18 to have more sauce in your Chilaquiles. 00:11:27.22\00:11:29.12 I like to have a bit of sauce on my Chilaquiles, 00:11:29.15\00:11:31.52 that will depend upon how much chips you add. 00:11:31.55\00:11:33.66 Since these are already prepared chips, 00:11:33.69\00:11:38.59 we didn't add to much salt to this sauce. 00:11:38.63\00:11:41.26 Just break those in there... You want to serve this quickly 00:11:41.30\00:11:51.17 because if you serve this too long, the salsa gets 00:11:51.21\00:11:56.01 on the chips and then they get soggy and so forth... 00:11:56.04\00:11:58.71 I like them when it's cooked and served immediately because 00:11:58.75\00:12:05.05 then it's nice and fresh. 00:12:05.09\00:12:06.55 That's actually with a lot of recipes of Mexican cooking 00:12:06.59\00:12:09.66 isn't it? A lot of them are better served fresh. 00:12:09.69\00:12:12.59 Off the pan, that is the way you usually use them. 00:12:12.63\00:12:16.67 If you notice these ingredients are available anywhere, 00:12:16.70\00:12:21.07 you don't have to have to travel to Mexico to buy these 00:12:21.10\00:12:24.34 exotic ingredients that you can find in your local 00:12:24.37\00:12:28.08 grocery store. Nice fresh and convenient, it's fast too. 00:12:28.11\00:12:36.58 Do you like to eat Chilaquiles? I love to eat Chilaquiles. 00:12:36.62\00:12:41.06 Me too. Me too. Alright, so we have our tortilla's coated 00:12:41.09\00:12:47.70 very nicely, our tortilla chips and the only thing left to do 00:12:47.73\00:12:53.03 Rebekah...is to eat them. I think that you are right. 00:12:53.07\00:12:57.21 So you can see, very simple recipe, something that you can 00:12:57.24\00:13:02.21 quickly do, especially in the morning. This is a dish that 00:13:02.24\00:13:05.08 usually is eaten for breakfast or brunch and nice nutritious 00:13:05.15\00:13:10.45 together with those legumes will give you that energy 00:13:10.49\00:13:13.02 that will help you to have a very good day. 00:13:13.05\00:13:16.26 Now we are going to cook a very yummy recipe of something 00:13:19.33\00:13:23.67 that you may not have even think that you can eat. 00:13:23.70\00:13:26.27 nopales. But for this recipe we have the help of, 00:13:26.30\00:13:32.44 What is your name Elizabeth? Elizabeth, my smaller daughter 00:13:32.47\00:13:36.41 is going to be helping us cook this yummy recipe. 00:13:36.44\00:13:40.12 So this is called nopales, Nopales is not Nepal, 00:13:40.15\00:13:46.55 Nopal, Nepal, it's a different spelling. Nepal comes from an 00:13:46.59\00:13:51.56 Aztec word Nopali, a very old Indian word from the Americas. 00:13:51.59\00:13:57.53 We can find some of these nopales wild here in Australia. 00:13:57.57\00:14:06.37 This is a photo actually that I took this weekend as I was 00:14:06.41\00:14:10.81 running around here in Australia. nopales is that type 00:14:10.85\00:14:15.38 of cactus that is a pad and it has little thorns 00:14:15.42\00:14:21.39 Now in the science world, they have described 114 types of 00:14:21.42\00:14:28.60 different nopales and this plant has the characteristic that is 00:14:28.63\00:14:35.30 good to maintain your glucose, it's good for people with 00:14:35.34\00:14:39.97 diabetes to eat a nopales. If you are going to be cooking 00:14:40.01\00:14:44.61 your own nopales, as you know it has thorns, 00:14:44.65\00:14:47.52 of course you are not supposed to eat the thorns...Some people 00:14:47.55\00:14:50.89 what they do, they put some tape on their fingers 00:14:50.92\00:14:54.39 and they grab the nopales, you remove every single one 00:14:54.42\00:14:59.49 of those thorns. Another tip, if you are going to be using 00:14:59.53\00:15:02.66 some of the nopales that you find in the wild, 00:15:02.70\00:15:05.70 make sure that it is thin and it is a young Nopal, 00:15:05.73\00:15:11.37 not an old one, it becomes hard and is hard to cook 00:15:11.41\00:15:14.94 so you want to have nice and tender. 00:15:14.98\00:15:17.45 Also to clarify, there is a difference between nopales 00:15:17.48\00:15:22.15 and cactus, here we have a cactus, this is not what 00:15:22.18\00:15:26.82 we are talking about, okay, and the word cactus comes from 00:15:26.86\00:15:32.79 the Greek (káktos) and they have described more than 00:15:32.83\00:15:36.93 1,700 different species. Yes, nopales is one of those 00:15:36.97\00:15:43.10 species of this cactus. So you can actually find some of the 00:15:43.14\00:15:49.34 precooked nopales here in Australia we went to visit 00:15:49.38\00:15:54.95 the store and we found some here or you can go and find 00:15:54.98\00:15:58.92 your own. So Susan what are we going to be using 00:15:58.95\00:16:02.19 to make this recipe. Okay, so here we have our cut nopales, 00:16:02.22\00:16:07.00 these were as mentioned, these we already found in the store 00:16:07.10\00:16:11.33 so these are already cut, cooked and ready to go for our 00:16:11.37\00:16:15.20 recipe. We have some chopped tomatoes, we have onion, 00:16:15.24\00:16:19.84 we have olive oil that we're going to use to sauté our onion 00:16:19.87\00:16:23.95 and we have a little salt just to salt to taste 00:16:23.98\00:16:27.62 we have garlic and we have Oregano. 00:16:27.65\00:16:30.69 This is nopales, the Indians in Mexico have been eating 00:16:30.72\00:16:36.52 nopales for literally thousands of years, which means that 00:16:36.56\00:16:41.13 there are a hundred different ways of cooking this nopales... 00:16:41.16\00:16:45.80 This is just one of them, one of the multiple ways you can do it. 00:16:45.83\00:16:48.64 Now Elizabeth does it sound strange to you to eat cactus? 00:16:48.67\00:16:53.34 No! It doesn't sound strange to you. Do you like to eat cactus? 00:16:53.38\00:16:56.78 Yes! Yes, I like to eat it too. I must admit, the first time 00:16:56.81\00:17:00.72 that I tried it, I thought oh, it's ok, but now everybody 00:17:00.75\00:17:05.52 in our family loves nopales, and usually whenever we cook them 00:17:05.55\00:17:09.42 there's none left over. So we are going to just go ahead 00:17:09.46\00:17:13.80 and sauté the onion...and whenever I sauté onion, 00:17:13.83\00:17:18.90 I like just to add a pinch of salt, it helps bring out the 00:17:18.93\00:17:21.40 flavor and we will sauté that until it's clear. 00:17:21.44\00:17:26.27 And these nopales that people eat in Mexico at all times, 00:17:26.31\00:17:41.79 for breakfast, you can eat it for lunch, 00:17:41.82\00:17:43.46 you can eat it for tea, it's up to you. 00:17:43.49\00:17:46.80 The nice thing about nopales is that you can put different 00:17:46.83\00:17:51.03 flavors and it will capture those flavors. 00:17:51.07\00:17:54.70 This is actually very good to eat together with tofu 00:17:54.74\00:17:57.47 as a matter of fact. We eat it with tofu, we eat it with beans 00:17:57.51\00:18:01.04 with a variety of things and we eat it with tortilla's too, 00:18:01.08\00:18:05.25 don't we? Yes! In Mexico the tortilla is something that 00:18:05.28\00:18:10.05 people eat every single day. They say that the meal 00:18:10.09\00:18:14.06 is not complete unless there is some tortillas. 00:18:14.09\00:18:17.53 The Indians have this saying, that they used to call it 00:18:17.56\00:18:21.30 the three sisters, the three sisters were composed of 00:18:21.33\00:18:25.40 the pumpkins, the beans and the corn, so every meal 00:18:25.43\00:18:30.87 had to have some of that. 00:18:30.91\00:18:32.77 And we just added the garlic, yep...we just added the garlic. 00:18:32.81\00:18:39.51 Okay, we added the garlic, now we are going to add the oregano 00:18:39.55\00:18:43.89 and we are just going to stir that a little bit. 00:18:43.92\00:18:47.42 And then we're going to add the tomato. 00:18:49.52\00:18:53.73 You notice that all these ingredients are fresh, 00:18:53.76\00:18:59.77 that's the way that most house- holds use their ingredients. 00:18:59.80\00:19:05.97 And once the tomatoes start to give off their juice, 00:19:06.01\00:19:11.81 we are ready to add the nopales. 00:19:11.85\00:19:15.45 Elizabeth can you give me the nopales please? 00:19:15.48\00:19:17.59 Thank you so much. Once I get these in there, do you want to 00:19:17.62\00:19:23.26 help me stir. Yes. Yeah. Okay, thank you dear. 00:19:23.29\00:19:31.73 When your here, you can start to smell the nice flavor 00:19:31.77\00:19:40.04 of those nopales...and if you look, you can also see that 00:19:40.08\00:19:43.95 we have the colors...it actually looks like a Christmas dish 00:19:43.98\00:19:48.18 doesn't it? Yeah. Red, white and green. 00:19:48.22\00:19:51.69 Which is the colors of what? The flag of Mexico. 00:19:51.72\00:19:56.39 And there's a lot of Mexican cooking that has the very 00:19:56.42\00:20:00.30 patriotic, that have to colors of the Mexican flag. 00:20:00.33\00:20:02.63 This is something that you can eat by itself or you can put it 00:20:02.66\00:20:07.77 together with some rice, you can put it together with some 00:20:07.80\00:20:10.97 beans...It's a matter of you being creative on how you are 00:20:11.01\00:20:14.34 going to be presenting this. There's also...actually 00:20:14.38\00:20:17.28 we don't just eat it cooked like this, we can also use the 00:20:17.31\00:20:21.08 same ingredients the nopale is cooked, but we can use the 00:20:21.12\00:20:24.42 same ingredients, the tomato, the onion, the garlic, 00:20:24.45\00:20:28.66 and we can make a nopale salad and we would add 00:20:28.69\00:20:31.83 a little cilantro to that. Thank you Elizabeth. 00:20:31.86\00:20:35.33 You know I do a lot of research and plant based diets 00:20:35.36\00:20:41.40 are one of the best foods that you can eat, you can find 00:20:41.44\00:20:45.64 some of my research if you Google the words researchgate 00:20:45.67\00:20:50.51 and Francisco Ramirez. When you come to that page, 00:20:50.55\00:20:54.82 there's more than 80 studies in the literature, 00:20:54.85\00:20:58.85 they are all free, you can go on and access them and learn 00:20:58.89\00:21:02.42 more how to care better of your health. 00:21:02.46\00:21:06.73 Well Eddie, our nopales are done, there's only 00:21:06.76\00:21:08.46 one thing left to do. What's that Elizabeth? Taste it. 00:21:08.50\00:21:10.83 Yes, you're right. So these nopales are ready to cook, 00:21:10.87\00:21:15.04 you saw, it takes a few minutes and you have a nice 00:21:15.07\00:21:19.61 complete meal. You will see that when you eat these nopales 00:21:19.64\00:21:23.28 you will feel satisfied and this is the type of food 00:21:23.31\00:21:26.61 low glycemic index, which means that this food would last 00:21:26.65\00:21:31.95 for a long time inside of you without you being tempted 00:21:31.99\00:21:36.09 to be snacking and so forth. So very simple recipe, 00:21:36.12\00:21:40.70 please try it in your own home and enjoy this classic 00:21:40.73\00:21:44.47 Mexican food called nopales. 00:21:44.50\00:21:48.54 Here is the end result of the dishes that we have been 00:21:50.71\00:21:55.31 working on and beautiful, colorful, delicious. 00:21:55.34\00:22:00.22 As you can see we have the Pico de galic and then we have 00:22:00.25\00:22:04.55 the Chilaquiles and finally we have the Nopales. 00:22:04.59\00:22:07.82 If you notice, every single one of them is garnished with 00:22:07.86\00:22:11.13 avocado, you don't need to eat it with avocado but 00:22:11.16\00:22:13.36 usually a lot of the dishes in Mexico have avocado 00:22:13.40\00:22:17.93 since avocado originally came from Mexico to all the world 00:22:17.97\00:22:22.80 and you can use different verities. In this case we are 00:22:22.84\00:22:27.04 using some chips to accompany some of those dishes 00:22:27.08\00:22:30.18 or you can also use some tortillas, warm, nice warm 00:22:30.21\00:22:35.15 together with this as another way of eating this. 00:22:35.18\00:22:38.79 So let us see how these dishes came out. Go ahead Talitha, 00:22:38.82\00:22:44.06 let's see, try your Pico de galic, Umm, it's good. 00:22:44.09\00:22:50.90 Tastes nice and fresh? Um hum. Yes. 00:22:50.93\00:22:53.34 And what about your' s Rebekah? (Thumbs up) Is that good? 00:22:53.37\00:23:06.61 And what about your' s Elizabeth? Mmm. You like the 00:23:06.65\00:23:17.56 nopales? Um hum. Good. So as you can see, healthy food 00:23:17.59\00:23:21.80 available for everybody. 00:23:21.83\00:23:23.57