If you've just joined
us on Cook:30 For Kids,
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we're cooking up a
storm in the kitchen.
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We have Sam from Mississippi
and Chloe from Tennessee.
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What is on the menu, guys?
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Well, we have a
Turkish mezze platter
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with fresh falafel,
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hummus, and garlic bread.
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That sounds delicious.
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And for dessert we have
pistachio baklava balls.
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Let's get cooking.
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Okay, let's get into
the final part of the show.
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So here you are with these.
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They're looking
nice, aren't they?
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Yeah. Look at
that, sizzling away.
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So we just take some
out and what we got here,
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we got a nice big
round white platter
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so hope you've got
one of these at home,
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if not they are relatively
inexpensive in homeware stores.
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We're just gonna start putting
clusters of food on here.
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So I'll just show
you how to get started.
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So just give a
little one of these.
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I think you're gonna
start putting them here
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in the corner like that.
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Okay.
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Try not to damage them too much.
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They are very precious.
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So get those there.
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And we'll start on
the other ingredients.
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So firstly, we're gonna put
lots of different colors on.
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And when you're putting colors
on this type of the thing,
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we wanna make sure
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we're putting
things in clusters.
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We're not gonna
scatter everything everywhere.
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We've got like a
cluster of green,
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a cluster of
different colors around.
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So we're just gonna cut these
into a nice little shape here.
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So perhaps we'll just
do something interesting.
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So if you're just
gonna cut them into like
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little kind of things like that.
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You can cut
about three of those,
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and we'll put those
in little cluster there.
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And when you're
putting them here,
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Sam, just put them
on top of each other.
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Okay. How's it going there?
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Get them out, there
you're chasing around the pan.
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They're going everywhere.
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Don't bother about the in
bits, just do the outer bits.
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That's cool.
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So we got a lot
of, bit of green here.
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We're gonna also
use some cherry tomatoes
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just to give some extra color.
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So just put a
handful of yellow ones,
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and a handful of red ones.
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So we're just building
this beautiful array of colors.
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What do you think?
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Look at that,
nice cutting there.
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So when cutting it, you
know, you wanna make sure
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you're sliding
through with the knife,
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what you're
doing which is great.
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And we're looking
for different cuts,
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like normally we
might put it straight,
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I think we could
do it on an angle,
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we could do it on
another kind of shape.
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So it's always
different ways of cutting things
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and that makes our
meals very interesting.
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Look after your thumb
there with the sharp knife.
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It's great.
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And again we just, to do the job
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we just gonna just,
you know, put the rest,
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just put it in the
little kind of pile there.
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We're looking for height
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and trying to
keep them in one place.
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Wow, these things
are so easy to make.
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Oh, exactly. You're
doing so well there.
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So just get rid of all this...
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We got little bit of
shred in the pan here.
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We'll just get rid of
that in the rubbish bin here.
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We'll just give
it a quick clean here
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with a paper towel.
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And if you're
gonna put some oil in it
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and do another
batch, that will be great.
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Sounds good.
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So now you're an
experienced chef.
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Well, thank you.
First day in the kitchen.
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So if you want
to put some oil in
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and oops, I'll just get
some of the stuff out here.
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Get it all out
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'cause you don't want little
burnt bits coming back again.
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So it's very hot.
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And so if you
want to put some oil in
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and make up some more falafel.
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Okay. Go for it.
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Let's do it.
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Looking good there.
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Now if you want, we've
got some artichoke hearts
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and we'll just gonna
make things interesting.
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So if you wanna
perhaps drain those...
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Okay. See, we've
got water in this.
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So when you go to the sink
just put your hand over it.
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Try not to cut yourself.
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And just put your
fingers over like that
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so the water goes out
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and the artichoke
kind of stay in there.
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Okay.
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That's great.
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I've also got some dried figs.
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This is just a nice thing
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that comes from the Middle East.
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Just having some
fruits on the plate
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is something
different is really nice.
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So I'm just gonna use
about that many dried figs.
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Now I'm just
gonna cut them in half
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just to make them interesting.
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As you can see
it's just beautiful,
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beautiful little seeds in there
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so they just look
really, really nice.
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That look so cool.
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It does.
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So if you want to
dump some of those
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just perhaps there
in the next location.
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This is the fun
part of doing a platter,
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just lots of interesting things.
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You know, some of these things
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you may not have
in your supermarket
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or don't like or some
of them may be expensive,
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you can just
substitute with other things.
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So it's a very, very
flexible way of cooking.
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And what are those called?
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Those are artichoke
hearts and these are figs.
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Here we go. We'll
put a pile of figs here.
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And again we're
going for height.
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We're putting things up.
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We're clustering them together
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so they look
lovely and colorful.
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See, it does look beautiful.
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Awesome.
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And now we've got some olives,
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can't have anything
Middle Eastern without olives.
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So again if you can,
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make sure you got pretty
much most in there, lovely.
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If you're gonna
drain the olive juice
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and do the same thing again.
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Let's put these over here.
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Going really well.
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I've got some hummus.
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So you may have,
if you've got time
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you can make your own hummus
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or there's some really
nice natural preservative
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kind of store bought hummus'.
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So we're just gonna
spoon this into here.
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And add some hummus.
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This setting looks so pretty.
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It is, looking very pretty.
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How is it looking over
there? Oh, they look good.
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You're getting some
good bowls out there.
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Don't forget to put little
bit of oil in there as well.
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Okay.
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So we're just
gonna put some hummus in.
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Hummus looks really nice.
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When you put a
little bit of well in it
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and just put a little
bit of olive oil in it.
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It just makes it shine and
gives a little extra flavor
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so just do that.
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Little bit of olive oil.
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Just makes a hummus a
little bit more special.
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I'm gonna put it over here.
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Look at that.
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It looks so cool.
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I can't wait till it's done.
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I know.
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If you gonna put a few olives
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on the top of
the hummus as well.
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Just put two olives.
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Just on the top of the hummus
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just to make it look
a little bit special.
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That's great.
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And I've got some sun
dried tomatoes here as well.
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So if you know, I'm gonna drain
some of the oil out of those,
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it's probably not olives.
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This stuff is so
squishy and green.
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Are these?
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Is it working?
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Look at that, well,
it's turned off a bit.
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Have you put oil in here?
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Not yet.
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I'll just try
some oil in for you.
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Just a little bit at the
edges to have a go around
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and just give it a little
bit of a shake up just to...
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Oop, oh, no, sorry.
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I might have...
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Well, that's not
what we're calling it
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falafel crumbled.
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If something ever
goes wrong in your dish,
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just change the name of it.
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Just make sure you're
keeping it nice and squishy.
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Crisp them
together nice and hard.
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Lovely, look at that,
these lovely falafel balls.
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Okay, these are looking good.
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And I'll put some of
these on here as well.
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And we need to
get to the end of it.
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It might have
everything spread out.
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So we're just gonna just
spread some of these things out
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a little bit more just
to cover the whole platter.
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And we just need those
falafel things and that is done.
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So now we've got
a couple of minutes
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to finish the
dessert, the baklava balls.
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And baklava is
a Turkish dessert,
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normally with lots of
pastry and unhealthy stuff.
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This is a very healthy version.
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So if you wanna
measure out, I'm half a cut.
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This is a half cut
measure of roasted almonds.
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You can get those
in the supermarket.
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Okay.
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So half cut roasted almonds,
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we're gonna do
half a cup of dates.
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I think pretty much all
the ones in the bag I think.
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So you're just
getting from the bulk bins
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and put them in bags like this.
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Yup, that's close
enough that will be fine.
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Use all those here.
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Cool, and I'll
just get throw it in
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into the food processor.
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We've just washed
it during the break
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and do half a cup of dates.
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There we go. Put it in as well.
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And we're gonna put,
if you want to measure out
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half a cup of pistachio nuts
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and these are the special
nuts to make this baklava.
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And I'm putting in
three tablespoons of honey...
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like that.
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This is coming together so nice.
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It is gonna be nice with
these lovely ingredients.
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And yup, put those
in as well, few more.
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And then we
gotta process these up
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and see what happens.
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Ready? Let's go.
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What is going around?
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Check what's happening over here
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in the fry pan department.
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Oh, that's very cool.
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These do break up sometimes.
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I don't think they're too bad.
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You can use your finger to
help sometimes if you want.
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Apparently just got two.
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Look over the finger.
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Beautiful lovely.
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So all the ones that
get crumbled you can eat,
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and we'll put the good
ones back on the platter.
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So there we go, look at that.
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And there we have a lovely mix.
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And what we do now
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is we're just gonna
roll them into the bowl.
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So take the blade out
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and just grab a little bit.
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Wow, looks so good.
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Yeah, oh, I've
forgotten an ingredient.
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We've got a little
bit of some old spice.
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Where's that gone?
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Well, cinnamon just basically
we want half a teaspoon,
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we just mix it
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and normally we put in
the blender to begin with
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and then we're gonna mix it up
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and we're gonna
make little balls.
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So if you want to make
some little balls like this
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and these are lovely old treat.
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Just get them small like that,
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focus on this
beautiful little plate here.
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And these become baklava balls.
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Isn't that wonderful?
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We've got little one.
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We've got varying
sizes, that's great.
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So all we have to do now
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is finish those
falafel on the platter,
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push the bread in the oven
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and our meal,
Turkish meal is all finished.
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Can't wait.
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