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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with Toby from Chicago
and Anjali from Arkansas.
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What's on the menu today?
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Well, we have tuscan
lentil and butternut stew
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with Thai green curry rice.
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And for dessert, we
have cranberry-oatmeal balls.
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That sounds really good.
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We've made amazing progress.
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So we've got the
lentil stew is underway.
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The pumpkin or the butternut
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is probably not quite soft
but it won't be too far away.
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How can you tell if it's ready?
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They are basically soft.
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So basically you
just put a knife in
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and they basically come out.
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We can just tell
how soft they are.
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Okay.
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So the next ingredient
we want to add to this is
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because it is
heating up nicely is lentils.
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If you can grab
some cans of lentils...
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I'll grab it. Okay.
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Toby's got his hands, so let see
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if we can grab that one.
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Yeah, don't worry,
I'll get this one here.
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So you want to open that
without cutting yourself?
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You're right with
it. How do you do this?
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So this one, you just
kind of lift up like this,
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push it in that way
and then lift it up.
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And if you can go
to the sink with these
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and just hold your
hands in front of them
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and pour them
through so the water goes out
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but the lentils stays inside.
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Okay. That's great.
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It's a lovely ingredient.
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We're going to also
add a little bit of honey
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just for sweetness in this dish.
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We're using tomatoes.
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Tomato is quite
acidic so you generally
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want to add a
little bit of sweetness
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so adding a tablespoon of honey,
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you could add agave,
date puree, or any kind of,
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you know, healthy sweetener.
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That is going to be wonderful.
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So lentils go in there.
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The next ingredient
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we're going to
be looking at is...
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Where can we find
it? Coconut cream.
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Just a little
bit of coconut cream,
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so we're just gonna shake
this and we're going to just
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basically put
this in this to make it
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a little bit creamy.
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So give it a bit of a shake.
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Is that actually from a coconut?
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It's actually from the coconut.
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Basically they get
the sides of the coconut,
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scrape it down,
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squeeze it through
them, make a cream,
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something like that.
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But basically island
nations in the pacific
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where I come from,
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coconuts are just
everywhere, it's amazing.
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Coconut is an
amazing, amazing food.
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Whole communities live on it.
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they can use it for
food, they can use it to...
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They make clothing out of it,
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it's just a
very, very versatile...
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How do you make
clothing out of coconuts?
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All the husks and
things and the different...
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I'm not sure exactly
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but they make lots
of stuff out of them.
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Basically it's a very,
very important product.
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Excuse me. Good question there.
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So we just need to
put the lentils in.
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So if you can
put those in, Anjali.
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It's great. And I cannot,
this is what I was looking for.
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So do we put it in
here? Right in here?
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Sorry. Yep, put
it right in there.
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Just pour it in.
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I'll try and
find the missing can.
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Now, here it is, right
in front of me as usual.
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So you can cook lentils
up yourself if you want.
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Beans are really easy to cook.
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You just basically
cook them for about
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half an hour
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because we have
only limited time here,
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it's much easier with lentils,
so it's the kind of ingredient
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you want to have in
your pantry at home.
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Lentils or any kind of beans
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'cause they're really
quick, really good for you
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and they are great
vegetarian protein source
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that you can use.
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This smells really good.
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I just finished it, so
should put it the oven?
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Yeah, put in the oven. Okay.
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So we're gonna
put this in the oven.
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These take about probably
10 to 15 minutes to cook.
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So just put them in there
and they will just simmer away,
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be just kind of
combined together
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and kind of be
like a oat cookie,
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except we haven't got
sugar or white flour in there.
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It's kind of like a really
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healthy oat
version of a cookie so...
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I'm having an awesome
time. Oh, great, that's cool.
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You're doing very well,
so give that a good stir,
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stir underneath as well.
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So the next thing
we'll look at is the rice.
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So we're gonna
serve this on rice.
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Rather than just cook up rice
as normally as heade by itself.
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We're gonna make this
rice a bit more exciting.
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So in the fridge,
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I'm actually
gonna use leftover rice.
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So whenever we cook
rice, cook a bit more
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and you got
leftovers and the beauty is,
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it's so easy to
make a rice to start.
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So here's this rice.
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Smells good, that brings
about probably a day or so old.
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And as you can see,
what does it look like?
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Does it look nice
and soft? Yeah, kind of.
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It's kind of very
hard. Kind of. Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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So what we wanna do is actually
make this nice and soft.
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There's a very
simple technique for this.
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I'd like to
learn that technique.
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It's very simple, just
pour boiling water over it.
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So what happens is
this is dehydrated.
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See it's very kind
of very, very, dry.
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So what we're gonna do is
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put it in a
bowl over here and...
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Shall I get the water?
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Yeah, get the boiling water.
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And we're just gonna put
some boiling water over it.
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Yeah, just pour it over.
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It's such a simple
method, I didn't even know.
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Yeah, we'll just
pour the water over it.
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Okay. Go hard, push on here.
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And we'll just give it a
couple of minutes in there,
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and this will just
kind of hydrate nicely,
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and we are almost as good
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as if we cooked just fresh rice.
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So rice, it will
probably keep in the fridge
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about two to three days.
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And you gonna make sure
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if you do keep
them in the fridge,
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it's got to go straight away
and because you can't grab it,
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two or three days it's great
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and that will just be
a lovely, lovely, fresh.
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Can you smell it?
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You need to smell that lovely
rice smell coming through.
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Do we need more water in
that? No, that's still enough.
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This is just enough just a
bit, just to get it hydrated.
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We're also gonna
add another ingredient.
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There is some frozen peas. Oh.
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So this is another thing
you wanna have in your freezer.
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Will they get soft in the
water as well as the rice?
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Yeah, basically,
these are frozen peas,
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generally you cook
them in boiling water,
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but they just need to
be just slightly defrosted.
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So in that boiling
water they would just
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become just nice and
soft and that'll be very good,
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just to make this
rice more interesting
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rather just boring rice.
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Yeah, the white and
green really looks good.
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Exactly, yeah,
and that's awesome.
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So this is there, so if you can,
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that's ready to go now.
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So, Toby, if you can just
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strain that
through the strainer?
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And cut back and
put back into the bowl.
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So is there a strainer around?
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Well, there is a
big one floating around.
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Here we go. Use
this nice big one here.
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Strain it through this
and take the water out of it.
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I've heard that colorful
cooking makes you eat more.
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Exactly.
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Well, people
eat with their eyes,
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so if it looks good, you gonna
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want to eat it more, don't you?
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So garnishing is
really important.
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So you just
check, what we do here
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is just check this butternut.
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Oh, yep, see how I
put the knife in here.
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How it goes
through really easily.
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It looks really soft
and good. Which means...
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It's really,
yes, it's really soft.
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So you wanna serve kind of soft,
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you don't want
to serve too mushy,
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but this is just
done and ready to go.
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Where should I
put the rice and peas?
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Just put it back in that bowl
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and we're gonna mix in
more flavors with it as well.
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I'm sure that's gonna
be some flavorful rice.
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That's gonna be good.
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So if you wanna give
that a little bit of a stir.
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Check it's not
burning on the bottom.
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Thanks, Toby.
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I want you, Toby,
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since you're
the colander person,
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if you can grab this pumpkin.
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Now, the handle is really hot,
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so if you wanna
use this tea towel here
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just to hold it,
and don't burn yourself,
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and see if you can drain
it through so just see it.
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It's great, strain
it through the colander.
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Now we're gonna add one
of my favorite ingredients
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that's really good is
green Thai curry paste.
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Curry paste are amazing.
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You can make your own,
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but just these little
jars of wonderful flavor
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can just transform it.
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So we're just gonna
add just a teaspoon of this
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green Thai curry
paste into this here.
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I'm just gonna mix in
with a little bit of water
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just because to make
sure it kind of flows better.
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Should I turn off the
fire? What's the paste made of?
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You tell us, it'll be
great. So the paste, isn't it?
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Great question,
it has like garlic,
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and ginger, and chilies,
and all that type of things.
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So we're just
gonna add this in here.
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So you just gonna
make a little paste
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and just add it to the rice,
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and just give a
just a little bit
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of just
wonderful, wonderful, flavor.
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Anjali, you like the pumpkin.
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Pumpkin, if you can just pour it
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straight into the lentil dish.
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So look at the
way, Anjali. Okay.
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Just pour it in
and stir that through.
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Oops, there's a little
bit of rice got in there.
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Just, no one
noticed, just keep stirring.
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They didn't see anything
here. Stir that through.
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Well, the pot is really
full. It's getting full.
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We gonna add a little
bit of honey here as well.
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Yep, you can put
that in the sink actually.
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A little bit of a honey,
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we gonna add a
little bit of salt
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with the sautéing up going.
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Do I keep on
mixing? Keep on mixing...
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Like that.
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I'm just gonna give
it a little bit of a stir
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and I'll probably add
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a little bit of
cilantro to it as well.
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Is cilantro spicy?
Well, cilantro is just a herb.
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So we're gonna
add some fresh herbs.
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And I'll keep it
in the refrigerator,
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so basically
it's nice and fresh.
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Keep it in some wet paper towel.
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We're just gonna
slice the ends up
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which are
particularly flavorsome
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and just slice
those really thin.
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My mom uses a lot of
cilantro in her kitchen.
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Cilantro is great.
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And we're gonna
add this to the rice
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and we're gonna
use that as a garnish
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on the other dish as well.
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So, Toby, if you can grab
that wooden bowl off the table.
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You have to mix
more or is this good?
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Yeah, that's
cool, just a few minutes
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for those flavors to mingle.
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And then we're gonna
add this coconut cream.
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Here we go on
there, put that there.
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So we're gonna
add some coconut cream
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so that lentil thing
there and that will be finished
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and we'll go over to garnish,
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and this lovely
rice is ready to go.
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Oh, it looks delicious. Wow!
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The oaty balls are
few minutes in the oven
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and we are now finished
our meal in just 30 minutes.
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That was really quick. Yeah.
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