Find out what
Mexican Antojitos are and
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learn how to eat
this prickly thing here.
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Ouch, we'll be right back.
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Welcome to Let's Cook Together.
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I'm Cari Christian and
our special guest today
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is Maria Ronquillo.
She is gonna tell us what
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Mexican Antojitos
are. Did I say right?
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Yes, you said it right.
Mexican Antojitos I guess,
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something like
light meals. The actual
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translation is Mexican
Cravings, but we're gonna
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make these light meals
and just enjoy our time
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together I think.
Okay let's get started.
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Yeah let's make our
first recipe for Guacamole.
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I'm sure you've
heard about that before
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Guacamole. Oh
yeah I like Guacamole.
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Okay let's read the recipe.
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Okay. The ingredients are
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2 or 3 avocados, peeled & mashed
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1 medium tomato, chopped
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½ medium onion, chopped
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1/4 c. cilantro, chopped
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2 limes, juiced
and salt to taste
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Okay, so we are
ready for our Guacamole.
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And we have the
avocados ready here and
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what you wanna do is
mash them, you can use
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a fork but this is a
lot easier using the potato
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masher. Yeah that
does work well. Doesn't it?
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Yeah really fast, and
so well we're using two
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here you can use
as many as you want,
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it depends on how
big of our recipe,
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how many people you
are feeding I guess.
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And Guacamole is
always great for party.
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Guacamole is a
great thing for parties
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because you can use
it as a dip, and you can
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use it top up things
even for chips and stuff
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like that. And you can
even put it on a sandwich.
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Yeah, I mean every,
tortillas, it's good.
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So what else I would be putting.
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We putting some
onion and here it's also to
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taste kind of because
some people like it a lot
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some people do like so
much onions so I rather,
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I put a little bit, I
don't put a lot but a lot
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of people like a bit
more onions than I do.
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So between maybe
half of an onion to a
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whole onion would be
good for two to three
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of avocados. And
now we're gonna put the
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tomato, never tried
tomato in there before
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but I like that, I
mean this is a variety.
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Yeah, that means
some people make a little
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bit different than
others. So you can add a
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little bit of tomato,
you can add a whole tomato
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and some cilantro.
Cilantro is good but I
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remember the first
time I tried I wasn't quite
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prepared for the taste.
Yeah. It's little thicker.
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I love pepper and
familiar with cilantro.
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It's something that
is used a lot in Mexican
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cooking for sure. And
it's good in taste I would
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say right? Oh but
now I like it. You have
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acquired the taste. I
have acquired the taste,
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first time I thought
it taste a little bit like
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soap, okay, but now
I've stead it. You know it's
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pick I need it. It's
like a Mexican version of
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parsley I guess, yeah.
We got to put some salt
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and some lime
juice or lemon juice,
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you can use either one. Okay.
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Yeah. So does the
flavor make a difference
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really between the
lemon and the lime? Yeah.
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It's a little bit
different the flavors between
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the lime and lemon, yeah
there is a little bit of a
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difference. But I
guess is whatever you like.
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It's one of those
recipes that you make to your
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own taste. Now
that'll keep it from turning
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brown right. It sure,
will help yes absolutely.
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So this ready to eat
or you could let it sit
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for little while and
let flavors blend a little
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bit more, but this is
ready to eat right now.
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So what I wanted do
is make the Guacamole
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first for also, for our
next recipe to top it off
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with Guacamole. Okay. So
let's move on to our next
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recipe. Our next
recipe is Mexican Taco Burger.
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The ingredients are
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1 pkg. vegetarian
ground burger, crumbled
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½ medium onion chopped
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½ green bell pepper chopped
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½ tsp. mild chili
powder which is (optional)
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½ tsp. paprika 1/4 tsp. cumin
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1 tsp. oregano 1 tsp. olive oil
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So this recipe is very
easy, and very quick and
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you could use it for a
lot of things like you can
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make Tacos, you can
make Taquitos, you can
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make enchiladas,
you can make a lot of
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applications with this
same recipe that we are
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gonna make. And it
should be lot of fun so
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let's start with a
skillet, here that is very
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warm we're gonna put
some olive oil and we're
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gonna add some onions.
I noticed that's pretty
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finely chopped,
yeah. Yeah that's how it's
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better that way
because we're gonna use a
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little bit of veggie
burger crumble so this is,
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it's and so already
crumbled the big pieces
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of onion kind a
interfere a little bit, yeah
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So let's put some of
the bell pepper, okay,
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shall I dump it
there, sure, yeah. So this is
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just to give it a
little bit of more taste to it.
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You could use just the
vegetarian crumbles all
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by themselves but this
sure adds to the taste,
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adding the onion and
the bell peppers so let's
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add some of the
other things we have here.
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Little bit of oregano,
and the cumin, I think,
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cumin's good. It sure
brings out some flavor,
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yeah. And paprika and
optional chili powder,
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this is up to you
really if you want some chili
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powder you can have
some but if you don't,
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you don't have to.
You make it to your own
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taste, really. Well
there are different kinds of
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chili powder too
right. Yeah some of them are
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milder and that's what
I use it. If I use chili
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powder at all, I'm gonna
use a mild for some case.
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Okay. But other
people like a little bit hot,
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some people even
eat the cayenne pepper.
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And the cayenne pepper
is a little bit too hot
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for me to be
quite obvious, yeah.
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Even though it has a
little bit of medicinal
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properties to it, I
try to not use it too much
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for my food. But
other people like it so it's
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really up to your
own taste. And see how we
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already starting to see
a little bit of softening
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of the onions. Yeah
this is starting to get a
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little bit clear. Aha
that's exactly what you
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want when they are
all nice and clear,
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you would add
your vegetarian meat
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substitute but you
don't have to use even this.
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You can use some
bulgur wheat instead and
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or you can use beans
for this recipe we're gonna
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make, you can make
your Tacos and Taquitos
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with beans instead.
Oh, that will be good.
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So that's another
option but usually when we
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see Mexican people
eating tacos they use meat.
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So a lot of times in
order for us to help them
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transition out of
the meat eating habits we
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help them out with
products like this that's
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seen familiar to
them. Yeah. You know,
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the texture is little
more familiar, exactly and
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the taste is very
similar. You know you won't
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believe how similar
sometimes it is and it's
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not that we want to
may be keep on having that
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habit, it's just that
we want to help people
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transition into a
healthier diet, right,
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and these products
that made out of soy are
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very healthy actually
because they are low in
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fat and the soy
contains the soy protein is
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actually prevented in
some of the diseases that
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we see nowadays in our
society. So it's actually
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a good thing to
add to your diet.
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But if you can add
you know things like Tofu
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which are little bit
more natural than these
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packaged
things, are even better.
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So let's go ahead and
club our next recipe which
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is very, very easy
because we only gonna need
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one more ingredient
and then we could make our
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Tacos. Okay, yeah, so the recipe
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for Tacos and Taquitos.
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Okay it calls
for 24 corn tortillas
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1 Mexican taco
burger recipe which is
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fried there on the
burner, that's right.
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Tacos and Taquitos!
That's exactly what we're
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gonna make. So this is
so easy Tacos and Taquitos
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are traditionally fried
in a lot of oil that would,
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and what the
tortillas, corn tortillas,
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one of the characteristics
about corn tortillas is
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that they actually
absorb all the oil.
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So they get very
fattening that way, you know,
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oh yeah. So what we're
gonna do is we're gonna
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actually use the oven
instead of the frying pan
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and we are gonna just
spray this baking sheet
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with some olive or
any type of oil spray you
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want and we have some
tortillas they have been
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warmed already. These
are corn tortillas from
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the store, so
should be easy to find any
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grocery stores,
major grocery stores,
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carry them and you
wanna either warm them up
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on a griddle or may be
in the microwave something
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or steam them as well,
so that they are nice and
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soft. Okay so
warming them softens. Yeah,
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yeah exactly because
if you just get them out
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of the bag like that
they are not gonna be soft,
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they are gonna stiff.
Okay. So we're gonna put
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a couple of
tablespoons of the filling, and
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just for the Tacos you
just basically fold the
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tortilla in half and
that's it. Do you wanna make
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one? Yeah I do.
Okay. So just couple of
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tablespoons in it,
yeah, or however much you
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can fit in it. Lots and
lots, yeah. So those are
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usually Tacos right,
that's what you think of,
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yeah, hear the word
Taco. Now the Taquitos
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which actually in
Spanish are more called Flautas,
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flute I guess, you would
just roll it up instead of
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holding it in half. Oh
it's different variation.
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But it's basically the
same ingredient or same
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thing, okay, just a
different way to fold it.
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So you should try your
own. Look I make couple
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of more and lay
them on this, like this.
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And what I do if this
is optional, is just spray
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a little bit on top as
well. And its kind a helps
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that give nice little
texture. And so they will
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go in the oven at
about 400 degrees, at that
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temperature you
would have to watch them
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closely because they
won't take more than half
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an hour they probably
take between 15 and 20
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minutes. It depends on
the oven too, so you kind
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of have to know your
oven but you kind of have
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to be watching make
sure they don't burn.
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And they look nice and
crispy when they are done
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may be we can show the
final product how it looks
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when it's done, it's
nice and brown. See it's nice
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and crispy; it looks
good, nice and crispy, exactly,
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yeah. So when you
could do with the Taco when
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it's done, it's out of
the oven is that we can
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actually put a little
bit a Lettuce and Tomato and
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just some shred it
Lettuce like you would have it
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out there Mexican
restaurant I guess,
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maybe some sour
cream and we have some
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Tofu I guess soy sour
cream here. Okay is that
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enough or do you want
more? Put a little bit
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more, more okay. And
let's do another one with
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a little bit of our
Guacamole that we just
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made, oh yeah. And the
Taquitos as well, you can
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serve them with a
little bit of dressing on
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top you can serve with
Guacamole, you can serve
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them with sour
cream, yeah there we go,
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that's a nice top.
See that's how you would
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serve them and we
can maybe serve some
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Guacamole on top
our Taquitos as well.
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So just right on top,
just like that, yeah sure on
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side. However you want
that this is your plate,
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okay, yeah. And again
this will quite that make
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great party foods as
well things you could just
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pick up any with your
fingers, yup. So exactly
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and this is very tasty
that your kids will actually
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love you when you
make this I think because
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they are crispy thing, I
think children like things
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like crunch. You
know they are crunchy;
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oh I wouldn't love
this when I was a kid.
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I like it now. Yeah,
yeah so this is wonderful.
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So let's move on
to our next recipe.
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Okay, the next one. Oh
this is interesting its
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Cactus Salad.
Yeah, yeah so let's
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read the recipe. Okay its
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1 jar of nopalitos,
sliced (tender cactus)
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1 large tomato, diced
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½ medium onion, chopped
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1/4 c. cilantro, chopped
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1/4 tsp. oregano, lemon juice to
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taste and salt to taste.
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Maria I've been
looking forward to this one,
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how do you eat that
without gonna stickers on
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your tongue? That's
right well do you know what
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that is? This is a
Cactus, looks like a Cactus.
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Well amazingly enough
people to eat this and
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it's actually very tasty
and it's very nutritious.
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Really? It's actually
good for people who have
00:13:04.72\00:13:06.12
diabetes too because
it has good kind of fiber.
00:13:06.13\00:13:08.42
I didn't know that. Yes
now we are learning a lot
00:13:08.79\00:13:10.85
of things today. So
there are two ways you can
00:13:10.86\00:13:13.28
buy Nopalitos, you
can buy them brought like
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that or actually you
can actually go to the plant
00:13:15.58\00:13:17.19
and cut a piece, it
has to be a young leaf,
00:13:17.32\00:13:20.25
I guess patter something.
You have to cut it and
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scrape off the
thorns, you have to be very,
00:13:23.80\00:13:25.75
very careful with this,
this is like prickly pears
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you have to be
careful not to, you don't get
00:13:28.02\00:13:30.16
thorns on your hands
and you would scrape off
00:13:30.17\00:13:33.00
the thorns with peeler
and wash it really good
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and slice it and steam
it and that's how you would
00:13:36.56\00:13:39.92
make your recipes.
Now the other way to buy
00:13:39.93\00:13:42.50
them or to bake it is
to buy a jar. And these are
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found just about
anywhere because I found
00:13:45.81\00:13:47.65
them here in this
geographical area that
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means just about
anywhere you can find
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them, that's amazing,
yeah. So yeah that is good
00:13:51.08\00:13:53.07
and nopalitos, they
are called Nopalitos,
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nopalitos, nopalitos,
nopalitos is the Spanish
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word for Cactus. You
know when you get them
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out of the jar what
do you want to do is put
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them in a strainer and
actually rinse it off with
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a lot of cold
water. Oh why's that?
00:14:09.44\00:14:11.26
They come with a
slimy liquid inside and
00:14:11.27\00:14:13.40
actually nopalitos
are kind of slimy when you
00:14:13.41\00:14:15.70
cook them to, so you
also want to rinse them.
00:14:15.71\00:14:17.61
But you wanna rinse
up all this stuff that
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comes with the jar
and then you are ready to
00:14:20.76\00:14:23.53
chop them because
they come in long strings
00:14:23.72\00:14:26.92
like this, yeah it kind
of looks like a green bean,
00:14:26.94\00:14:28.78
it looks like a green
bean actually and the taste
00:14:28.79\00:14:30.82
is a little bit similar,
not too similar but they
00:14:30.83\00:14:33.22
come, you can
actually eat them like this too
00:14:33.35\00:14:35.53
but before the salad
that we're make we're
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gonna chop them
into smaller pieces.
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So here we have our
chopped up nopalitos
00:14:39.59\00:14:42.28
they're been rinsed
and ready to go for our
00:14:42.32\00:14:45.86
salad and salads one
of those easy things that
00:14:45.98\00:14:47.98
you can just drop
together. Yeah. So let's
00:14:48.05\00:14:51.39
start with our
recipe, let's put a little bit
00:14:51.41\00:14:53.77
onion and I put
about half an onion to a
00:14:53.78\00:14:56.92
whole onion it
depends on who is eating it.
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If I'm eating then I would only
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put half of onion or may be a
00:15:01.10\00:15:02.75
quarter of an onion,
but some people like lots,
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yeah it's true, but
some like lots of onions.
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So we put the onion
and then we put our fresh
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looking tomatoes
delicious looking tomatoes and
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again we have our
friend the cilantro here.
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And cilantro like I said
before it's very commonly
00:15:17.51\00:15:19.74
used in Mexican cooking
so this is another thing
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that is absolutely used
in all the time, it's in
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the nopalitos salad.
And then you could put
00:15:26.18\00:15:28.38
some, the salt is
optional if you gonna use the
00:15:28.52\00:15:30.99
canned version of the
nopalitos because there is
00:15:31.13\00:15:33.05
already salt in it. So
you don't really have to add
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any salt and the
lemon too it's' optional. I
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won't gonna add a
little bit because they are
00:15:39.23\00:15:42.51
preserved in some
citric acids. So it already has
00:15:42.58\00:15:44.85
a little bit the
lemony taste. And we're gonna
00:15:44.86\00:15:48.54
add just a little bit
of oregano may be that also
00:15:48.64\00:15:51.81
something that you
don't have to put but
00:15:51.83\00:15:53.69
actually salad is
pretty much ready to eat now,
00:15:54.03\00:15:57.34
but it's better if you
put it in the fridge and
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then it sit for a
while, especially if you want
00:16:02.94\00:16:06.64
the onion taste
to not be so strong,
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so you would put it in
the refrigerator and let
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it maybe for about
half an hour, let it say for
00:16:12.59\00:16:15.41
about half an hour and
the way the flavors will
00:16:15.42\00:16:18.92
be, they can just
mingle, mingle yeah and they
00:16:18.93\00:16:21.91
just come out very
nicely. And like you said the
00:16:22.03\00:16:24.34
taste or the flavor,
this taste a little bit like
00:16:24.51\00:16:27.97
green beans of the
textures, little bit similar
00:16:28.09\00:16:30.60
to the green
beans. But it's not quite,
00:16:30.61\00:16:33.08
so if you haven't ever
had this, this is something
00:16:33.60\00:16:36.90
that you have to taste
to really know if you like
00:16:36.91\00:16:40.10
it or not, you can
make a judgment just based
00:16:40.11\00:16:43.16
on the fact that
you never tasted it.
00:16:43.17\00:16:44.33
So I think it's something
that people need to try
00:16:44.34\00:16:47.20
and like I said it's
very nutritious and very low
00:16:48.10\00:16:52.22
in, I mean very low in
fat. It's got almost no
00:16:52.31\00:16:55.31
fat. And it's actually
good for you and good for
00:16:55.41\00:16:59.59
diabetics. It's good
for diabetics. Traditionally
00:16:59.60\00:17:02.14
it is used in
Mexico; people who have
00:17:02.15\00:17:04.35
diabetes traditionally
eat a lot of nopalitos.
00:17:04.36\00:17:06.99
Now the other thing
you can do with the Cactus
00:17:07.13\00:17:09.75
here is that you can
make scrambled tofu and
00:17:09.79\00:17:14.89
add the Cactus, nopalitos
too it because Mexicans
00:17:14.94\00:17:20.82
eat nopalitos with
egg sometimes, and so that
00:17:20.94\00:17:26.01
would be another way
to eat it another way
00:17:26.02\00:17:28.00
to eat it would be to
make soup and to add it
00:17:28.10\00:17:31.17
to any of your stews
or any type of like bean
00:17:31.18\00:17:37.06
dish or something
like that you like add,
00:17:37.09\00:17:38.83
that's good too.
People audit to their mole
00:17:38.92\00:17:40.94
sometimes with mole
sauce, there are so many
00:17:40.95\00:17:43.48
things you can do
with that it's very,
00:17:43.49\00:17:45.23
very good. It
sounds very versatile,
00:17:45.24\00:17:46.87
that's it's an
entirely new food for me so.
00:17:47.05\00:17:49.55
Entirely new food
for lot of people there
00:17:49.56\00:17:51.30
watching today I
think. Probably so but I'm
00:17:51.31\00:17:53.62
looking forward to
trying that, it smells good and
00:17:53.71\00:17:55.36
I wish to had a spoon
right now 'cause I snag
00:17:55.52\00:17:57.78
a little bit. Anyway
what do we have next, Maria.
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Well the next recipe
is I guess the Mexican
00:18:00.91\00:18:03.21
version of Hot
Chocolate; of course we are not
00:18:03.25\00:18:06.04
gonna use chocolate, no?
No I don't need chocolate.
00:18:06.05\00:18:08.68
What we're gonna use?
We're gonna use carob.
00:18:08.69\00:18:09.99
Carob! Why is carob
better than chocolate? Well
00:18:10.10\00:18:12.53
first of all Carob
does not have caffeine and
00:18:12.65\00:18:17.15
some of the other
addictive substances that
00:18:17.16\00:18:21.31
the chocolate has.
Chocolate used to prepare
00:18:21.32\00:18:23.68
with a lot of oil or fat
as well, sure, and is also
00:18:23.69\00:18:26.94
prepared with sugar
so it's high in sugar and
00:18:27.84\00:18:30.40
high in fat. And it's
not good for you because
00:18:30.41\00:18:32.92
it has caffeine and
other substances that are
00:18:32.93\00:18:35.65
actually make it
addictive. People do become
00:18:35.71\00:18:37.64
addicted to
chocolate. So it's not a myth,
00:18:37.74\00:18:39.84
people literally beco
me addicted. There is a
00:18:39.94\00:18:41.58
biochemical reason
why people become addicted
00:18:41.59\00:18:43.86
to chocolate so,
that's interesting, that is
00:18:43.87\00:18:45.67
interesting. It's not
just that people actually
00:18:45.68\00:18:47.84
like the taste
nobody becomes addicted to
00:18:47.85\00:18:49.34
broccoli. Now I've
never heard of a single
00:18:50.05\00:18:53.42
broccoli added,
exactly but there is actually
00:18:53.43\00:18:55.46
a reason why
people become addicted to
00:18:55.47\00:18:57.04
chocolate we're not
gonna use chocolate in this
00:18:57.05\00:18:59.36
recipe. So let's read
it, let's go ahead and
00:18:59.43\00:19:01.05
read it. Okay this is
Champurrado, calls for
00:19:01.27\00:19:05.22
½ c. masa harina 2½ c. soy milk
00:19:05.47\00:19:09.59
1½ c. water 2 tbsp. carob powder
00:19:10.12\00:19:14.13
½ c. Sucanat or
one cone "piloncillo"
00:19:14.71\00:19:18.19
1 stick cinnamon (optional)
00:19:18.77\00:19:20.69
Champurrado,
Champurrado that's correct.
00:19:24.57\00:19:26.68
It's a Mexican version
of hot chocolate I guess,
00:19:27.06\00:19:29.71
without the chocolate
apparently. Yeah we're
00:19:29.72\00:19:31.40
not gonna use
chocolate, we're gonna use
00:19:31.41\00:19:33.03
carob and we're saying
how that good is to not
00:19:33.16\00:19:37.93
eat chocolate but we
haven't said anything
00:19:38.12\00:19:39.59
about carob. Yeah
what so great about carob?
00:19:39.69\00:19:41.93
Oh carob is actually a
good source of protein.
00:19:41.94\00:19:44.68
It's a good source
of B Vitamins. Proteins?
00:19:44.88\00:19:46.59
And it has minerals in
it, so it's actually good
00:19:46.60\00:19:48.49
for you, I supposed
to do chocolate being
00:19:48.50\00:19:50.44
actually bad for you
so if we can substitute
00:19:50.45\00:19:52.66
something bad for
something good that
00:19:52.68\00:19:54.85
actually tastes similar
that's a win win situation
00:19:54.94\00:19:57.67
I think. Good,
something good for something,
00:19:57.72\00:19:59.68
yeah. yeah, yeah,
yeah, so and then we're gonna
00:19:59.69\00:20:01.72
use, we're gonna use
this product that was able
00:20:01.83\00:20:04.48
to find it, and it's a
cone of sugar like product,
00:20:04.49\00:20:09.45
I guess it's evaporated
cane juice and it's the
00:20:09.56\00:20:12.68
most unrefined
version of sugar you can ever
00:20:12.69\00:20:14.40
find and here's the
packet that it came in and I
00:20:14.70\00:20:18.65
was able to find
here, so you can find it in
00:20:18.66\00:20:21.10
just about most
grocery stores I would say,
00:20:21.11\00:20:23.86
pretty much
anywhere, yeah. Well what's the
00:20:23.87\00:20:25.56
advantage of using
this kind of unrefined sugar
00:20:25.60\00:20:28.00
say it's opposed to
white sugar? Well white sugar
00:20:28.14\00:20:30.47
has nothing but empty
calories; it has no traced
00:20:30.55\00:20:33.64
minerals left in it.
It has no nutrition at
00:20:33.74\00:20:36.14
all except for just
the calories from the sugar
00:20:36.15\00:20:39.08
and plus we find
refined sugars, all the refined
00:20:39.56\00:20:41.62
sugars, all the refined
sugars actually raise your
00:20:41.72\00:20:43.03
body sugar too
fast and that can create
00:20:43.47\00:20:46.24
problems later on. So
you definitely want to
00:20:46.35\00:20:49.21
avoid more refined
sugar, it has no nutrition
00:20:49.37\00:20:52.25
in it but this does
have some traced minerals
00:20:52.28\00:20:54.46
in it and
nutrition. So you do wanna use,
00:20:54.47\00:20:57.68
if you gonna any type
of sweetener and sugar in
00:20:57.69\00:21:00.23
your diet it's been to
use the unrefined sugars.
00:21:00.24\00:21:03.23
And so this is the
Mexican version of the
00:21:03.83\00:21:05.32
unrefined sugar. Well
that looks interesting.
00:21:05.36\00:21:07.32
If you don't find
this you could always use
00:21:07.51\00:21:09.04
Sucanat and stuff so
that's another option.
00:21:09.36\00:21:12.27
So does it taste
different than regular sugar?
00:21:12.43\00:21:14.98
It has more than
molasses flavor still left so,
00:21:15.16\00:21:19.15
yeah it's kind a like
sucanat that sense that
00:21:19.16\00:21:21.04
has a bit of molasses
richer flavor I guess,
00:21:21.15\00:21:24.14
sure it adds to the
recipe is that which is plane
00:21:24.21\00:21:26.95
sugar. Yeah I do like
that sucanat as opposed
00:21:26.96\00:21:29.90
to the white sugar
because, just because of
00:21:29.91\00:21:31.67
that very fat has a
worm flavor. Yeah and this
00:21:31.68\00:21:34.15
will have too. Okay.
Now the only difference is
00:21:34.16\00:21:36.30
that this, you will
only be able to you said in
00:21:36.35\00:21:38.81
recipes that have a
liquid in it because you
00:21:39.68\00:21:41.87
kind of have to melt
it in hot liquids so.
00:21:41.88\00:21:44.60
So that's the only
difference unless you
00:21:44.85\00:21:46.07
want to grade it or
something in that we do
00:21:46.08\00:21:48.62
a lot of work. But
that's the only difference so
00:21:48.63\00:21:51.32
anything that has hot
liquid in it you can use.
00:21:51.33\00:21:54.20
It looks like that
liquid is getting pretty hot.
00:21:55.07\00:21:56.60
Yeah we're gonna go
ahead and we already
00:21:56.61\00:21:58.27
warming the milk so
that it will be faster that
00:21:58.32\00:22:00.57
way but what we are
gonna do first is blend
00:22:00.58\00:22:03.41
with this blender
and we have the, again we
00:22:04.26\00:22:08.63
have the masa here
flour and that will make it a
00:22:08.64\00:22:14.01
little bit thicker than
traditional hot chocolate.
00:22:14.02\00:22:16.02
Traditional
chocolate is just milk, right,
00:22:16.29\00:22:19.20
but that this will
be a little thicker.
00:22:19.48\00:22:20.78
We're gonna about 1½
cups of water. So it's
00:22:21.33\00:22:24.66
the masa
traditional for this drink?
00:22:24.67\00:22:26.39
Yes, yes. Although
seven people eat or drink
00:22:26.52\00:22:30.47
some other types of
hot drinks that are don't
00:22:30.92\00:22:33.04
have masa they
might have corn starch,
00:22:33.12\00:22:37.78
sometimes in Mexico
they also drink hot drinks
00:22:37.90\00:22:41.53
that have oats in
it, blended oats and to
00:22:41.59\00:22:44.74
thicken the drink so
this is another option.
00:22:44.75\00:22:47.64
So let's go
ahead and blend this.
00:22:47.84\00:22:48.84
Alright. It's ready
to go, you wanna go ahead
00:23:05.07\00:23:07.38
and dump it for
me. My pleasure! Okay.
00:23:07.39\00:23:10.51
So you can get it
out, there you go, okay.
00:23:11.80\00:23:15.14
And go ahead put that
in here and then I gonna
00:23:16.29\00:23:21.53
go ahead and put
our cone of piloncillo,
00:23:21.63\00:23:24.90
we're able to get
that word. I practice
00:23:25.11\00:23:27.60
piloncillo, yeah
good, good job. And this is
00:23:27.78\00:23:30.32
optional cinnamon.
Cinnamon just gives the
00:23:30.33\00:23:33.15
taste when I actually
gonna eat it or drink it,
00:23:33.16\00:23:36.25
it's just give a
taste and then when you are
00:23:36.27\00:23:37.65
ready to serve it
you would remove it.
00:23:37.66\00:23:39.46
And when you would
do is simply stir up not
00:23:40.12\00:23:43.77
constantly maybe just
frequently you can leave
00:23:43.98\00:23:46.30
it for a while they
come back and stir a little
00:23:46.31\00:23:48.10
bit longer but you
don't wanna leave it too
00:23:48.11\00:23:50.00
long without stirring
because it's now start
00:23:50.13\00:23:51.85
sticking to the bottom
of the pan but you wanna
00:23:52.06\00:23:54.28
stir and once this
starts to boil it will thicken.
00:23:54.31\00:23:58.96
And do you wanna wait
until the piloncillo if you
00:23:59.39\00:24:01.45
are using it, it's
completely melt it and
00:24:01.46\00:24:05.14
then it's pretty much
ready to serve but it's
00:24:05.15\00:24:07.12
gonna meet very, very
hot. So what I do is if
00:24:07.13\00:24:10.08
I serve it right away
plus it's gonna be little
00:24:10.25\00:24:13.42
bit sweet because
it's gonna be kind of sweet
00:24:13.43\00:24:16.24
because of the piloncillo.
So what I do is that I
00:24:16.25\00:24:18.44
actually serve it and
then add a little bit soy
00:24:18.45\00:24:21.59
milk on top to
diluted and also to cool down
00:24:21.60\00:24:24.98
a little bit and that
way it's ready to drink.
00:24:24.99\00:24:27.05
So you can enjoy it
right away. Yeah and this
00:24:27.15\00:24:29.24
is will be great for
one of those cold nights
00:24:29.25\00:24:31.55
that you wanna
just sit by the fire or
00:24:31.58\00:24:33.98
something, this will be perfect.
00:24:34.01\00:24:35.37
That sounds good. Yeah.
Okay, so well it'll take
00:24:35.38\00:24:38.78
a little while for
that piloncillo to melt down
00:24:38.79\00:24:41.48
won't it? Yeah. So
when we come back may be
00:24:41.51\00:24:43.29
we can show at the end
how it will look served
00:24:43.30\00:24:46.38
ready to go to
drink. Okay, so we'll be
00:24:46.39\00:24:49.72
back to show you
the finished product.
00:24:49.85\00:24:51.45
We hope you have
enjoyed cooking with Maria
00:24:54.61\00:24:56.10
Ronquillo. Now
let's take a moment
00:24:56.11\00:24:58.40
to review our Mexican recipes.
00:24:58.54\00:25:00.20
For the Guacamole, you will need
00:25:01.17\00:25:02.67
2 or 3 avocados 1 medium tomato
00:25:02.86\00:25:06.58
½ medium onion 1/4 c. cilantro
00:25:07.55\00:25:11.63
2 limes and salt to taste
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For the Mexican Taco
Burger, you will need
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1 pkg. vegetarian
ground burger, crumbled or TVP
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½ medium onion ½
green bell pepper
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½ tsp. mild
chili powder (optional)
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½ tsp. paprika 1/4 tsp. cumin
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1 tsp. oregano 1 tsp. olive oil
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For the Tacos and
Taquitos, you will need
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24 corn tortillas
1 Mexican taco burger
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For the Cactus
Salad, you will need
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1 jar of sliced (tender cactus)
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½ medium onion 1 large tomato
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1/4 c. cilantro
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1/4 tsp. oregano, lemon
juice and salt to taste.
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For the
Champurrado, you will need
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½ c. masa harina 2½ c. soy milk
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1½ c. water 2 tbsp. carob powder
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½ c. Sucanat, 1
stick cinnamon (optional)
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If you would like
more information or if you
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would like to contact
Maria you may write to
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3ABN, PO Box
220, West Frankfort,
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IL 62896. Or call
us at (1800) 752-3226.
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Welcome back Maria this
food looks beautiful and
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delicious. It sure
does. We feel like eating it
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right now. Yeah. So
let's talk about what we
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made. We made the
Guacamole first and it's
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an excellent dish
something that you can
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use as to
accompanying other foods as well
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then we made our
Mexican Taco meat in order
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to make our Tacos.
And our Taquitos that we
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made nice and
crunchy and low fat and low
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in fat because
they are not deep fried.
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And then we made our
Cactus Salad which is the
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one thing that
people are learning to eat,
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yeah getting
familiar with. And then at the
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end of course we
finished with our hot carob
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Champurrado. And
I've got my eye on that.
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Well it looks very good
for sure. Indeed it does.
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Well I understand
you are working on a
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cookbook. Yes. And
it'll have all these recipes
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and it'll have even
more recipes international
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flavored recipes.
Great. So yeah, it is
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gonna good. Well
Maria thank you so much for
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being here today. Well
thank you and thank you
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for spending your
time with us here in
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the kitchen on
Let's Cook Together.
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