Bread Flip: Jacques Pépin: More Fast Food My Way | KQED

I love sausage and I love kielbasa sausage. Get them right out of the market. I take a skillet, I put pomegranate juice, I put some ketchup in it, I put a little bit of Tabasco. I cook that to reduce it. I add my sausage to it until it glaze and I glaze it as it is now. Et voila! Glazed I am Jacques Pepin. This is fast food, my way. Happy cooking. Production funding for this series has been brought to you by Cuisinart, with the next generation of food processors. From bread dough, to pizza, to stir fries, we do the work to save you time. Cuisinart, the next generation. And by Scharfenburger, makers of fine artisan dark chocolates. Recipes available at scharfenburger.com. And by Spectrum Organics, a purveyor of fine culinary oils and condiments. Spectrum, the taste of goodness. And by OXO Good Grips, makers of kitchen tools that make everyday living easier. See the amount of your flour in there? Yeah, you said a little bit. Shoray, my granddaughter, your daughter. My daughter. Loves salmon and vegetables. This is a great menu for a busy woman like you are to make, a busy mother. We're going to do risotto with broccoli stem. Stem is the best part of the broccoli, right? That's what you say. Salmon burger on baby arugula and grapefruit supreme. And then we're going to start with a bread I want to show you how to make. Okay. So I have a cup and a half of flour, put a cup of water in there. I'm giving you a teaspoon of. Do I have to go slowly and mix? No, no, no. Just put it in there. Salt. That's it. So, you know, when you come from work and all of a sudden you say I have no bread in the house, you can make a bread in about 15 minutes. That's it. You stir this. We're going to start cooking this with a little bit of olive oil. Stir it into a gooey stuff. It is definitely gooey. How about a tablespoon of olive oil? It doesn't have to rest or anything? There is no resting here. No resting for the bread. That's good. That's it. It's a bit like a soda bread that you do, Irish soda bread, you know, a little bit of the same idea. But you just do it stove top. Yeah, because this is, I saw that in a, I went to a restaurant, Tibetan restaurant in Middletown, Connecticut, and there was a bread on the table like this. And I was interested in it. I asked and they told me, no, we do it in a fry pan. So I start fooling around with it. And here we are. So this is kind of a very gooey dough. Bring a bit of the oil here to pat the top. And that's it. And what you want to do at that point, put a little bit of water, like a couple of tablespoons of water around to start steaming it a little bit. And you put it around, you don't put it on top. Yeah, it's better so that it goes around. Okay. And then we'll put a lid on it. Yeah, put the lid. Medium to high heat there. And it should cook about, about 10 minutes. That's it? Yeah, 10 minutes on one side, we cook it and cook it maybe five on the other side. Oh, nice. This is fast bread. Yes. That's the Tibetan bread. Now let's do some broccoli. And risotto. And rice. Yes. So you see the broccoli here. Very often you have recipe which use the broccoli floret. Yes. Very often. It's what I'm most familiar with. People throw that out. This is the best part of the broccoli for me. I know. You know that. I know. I know. It's, it's really, really good. Providing that you peel it and you peel it by grabbing the end and pulling around. You know, you have a thick, a very thick stem here. That's kind of like what you do to celery. Yeah. And that's very good when it's, when it's peeled. I mean, it's quite tender actually. A little bit like the artichoke bottom, you know. Oh, yeah. All right. This one I did already. Do you? Here. That's very good. You know what I do with that too? So how do you come? Okay. Yeah. When it comes here, you know, you know, it peels by itself. Don't be afraid to take some from the outside. Sometime I slice this and I put it in with salt. And then I put some sesame oil, some, what do I put in it? Sesame oil. And I think I put garlic, a lot of garlic and soy sauce and all that. And we eat it, we eat it raw like this. Yeah. That's really good. But it is, it's very tender. It's much more pleasant to eat than like the raw florets of the broccoli. All those little dice, we're going to put to blanch. So you have boiling water there. Boiling water. Yeah. So it should boil. Do I have to put salt in the water? Does it matter? No, that doesn't matter. So that should boil one, two minutes at the most and we drain it. We're going to add that to the risotto at the end. Okay. So onto the risotto. Onion. I'm going to put some button mushrooms, some of this in there. You know what? We should wash the mushroom, you know? You know, so many people tell me, oh no, you can't wash the mushrooms. You'll destroy the mushrooms if you wash the mushrooms. I have heard from you. Yes. Wash the mushrooms if they're dirty and wash them right before you use them. That's the point. It's not a question of washing it. It's a question of washing them and using them. Do you want me to take the stem off or do you want me to keep the stem on? No, no. Everything cut into pieces and you can put a little bit of oil over there and you can start, you can slide them, put the slice together to cut it. So what I'm doing, I'm just doing it in slow motion. No. You're doing the same thing. A lot slower. Okay. I'm going to put the oil in here. Yeah. Do you want to start with the onion? Yeah. Go ahead with the mushroom. The mushroom already. Put the mushroom in there. Okay. I'll give you the onion. How much onion you want like? That much. That much is just right. I need a little bit more oil in here. Okay. Here is your onion, scallion. You can put all of this or you can put none of this, you know. Yes, but it tastes much better with all of this. No, but you know, sometime risotto. So, you know, the risotto itself, basically when you cook rice, you cook it one to two, a cup of rice, two cup of liquid, but not the risotto. The risotto take at least three times the amount of liquid. The reason is that instead of putting all the liquid and covering it up and cooking it, you put some of the liquid, you let it cook, and after you cook it on top of the stove. So of course, by cooking it on top of the stove, as you put the liquid in the hot pan, it evaporates actually. A great deal of that liquid evaporates. So here you are. Go in there. Should I put the rice in now too? Well, stir this. Good. Is there enough oil? Should I add some more oil? No, no. We're going to put some butter at the end. So now you want to put your risotto in it. And this is where you see, this is the type of rice. This is a small, a round rice, a risotto. It's an Italian rice, you know, and those are, you know, tiny, rounder grain that you do the risotto with, as opposed to a Carolina, long grain rice, you know, which is a short grain rice. And it absorbs a whole lot more. No, no, no, no, no. It doesn't absorb more. It absorbs more because if I were to put all of the liquid in that risotto and cover it and cook it for a regular rice, I would have like a soup. So I only put some of the liquid, cook it, and after the rest is added on top of the stove and Oh, okay. Okay. No, that makes sense. Do you want me to put about half of the liquid in it? Do we turn down the heat or should we? No, no. You have to bring it to a boil, so a little more, dash more. Okay. That's fine. So I know, you know, there is a lot of risotto maker and lover. They're going to tell you, no, from the beginning you add in small quantity, but I feel that I always add half of my liquid at the beginning, cover it, cook it seven, eight minutes. By then everything is absorbed. It's still kind of raw. Then I start adding in small quantity at that point. Cover yes, cover no. Yeah. Cover yes. You know what? This is all bluff. This is done. No, this is okay. And then let's taste this here. I'm pretty willing to bet what do you think? Cooked enough or not? No. How about fine? So we can drain it. Okay. You can drain it in there and leave it here. We're going to put it in the broccoli. I mean in the risotto. Okay. And we're going to start on the salmon burger that we have. Claudine, when this comes to a strong boil here. Yes. You will stir it and then reduce the heat to lower. Okay. We'll have time to look here. We check on the bread. I think the bread may be going a little fast here. Looks just right. The lower it goes too fast, it's a little burn. I like it burn. I mean, okay. It's hot. So I started cooking it 10 minutes on one side, five on the other side, about seven minutes on that side, about seven minutes on the other side. Okay. Oh, that'll be nice. Lower temperature. Lower. Okay. So let's see here. You're going to handle the machine there? Yes. I'm good at that. You know, when I have a big filet of salmon, sometimes I use the center piece. You know, sometimes I scrape the bone and all that. So all of the pieces you have like this, you can do a burger with it. So you cut it into... I'm going to just coarsely chop some bread just because it's probably easier on the machine if things are cut a little bit. Yeah. You want to cut it into cube. Yes. Okay. All of it. I could do that all by hand, but in the machine, you know, you want to put it, but not too long enough. Is that why you cut it up first? Yeah. Otherwise, I probably have too much mushroom here. Too large one would be enough. You can put the salmon in it too. Okay. This. And then we'll put some salt and pepper. Yeah. Put salt and pepper in there. You want to season it well. You know, we do burger with a lot of different things now. It's not only with beef that we do burger. And we don't add any oil or... No, no, not for the time being. Okay. Some reason I thought about adding an egg. And then I was like, well, it's not a meatloaf. Well, you could actually, but... Okay. Let's see. So we're just going to pulse this a couple of times? Yeah. I want the last piece from the top, you know, to go underneath. If you turn your machine, you know, the higher part float around and the bottom part become into puree. So you stop, start, stop, start a little bit so that it turns better. Okay. I want to do four burger. I take about half, which I break in two again. So that I have about the same size burger. Okay. And if there's a little one, sure you can have it. This one is smaller, so we have to fix it up. Yeah. That looks perfect. Okay. So I love salmon. You know, I have to say, I've never thought about making a salmon burger like this, because every time I've ever had one, they've been very, very dry. Why would they be dry? Okay. When they are dry, sometimes probably first overcooked. Secondly, here, the bread, as well as the scallion and the mushroom, which give you a lot of liquid, you know, is going to keep it moist. Okay. Here we are. Okay. You're going to clean up the table. I'm going to lower the heat a little bit on this. And I think that I'm going to look at the bread first. Did you just flip it? Yeah. Well, it's easy to flip. It's hard. Yeah. I put it on really, really low. So I'm going to put it on a bit higher to brown it a little more. This smells so good. Let's see the rice now. It should be about time. I'll put this here. Let's look at it now. So now you can see the bottom of the pan. You know, basically there is no liquid there. Cook it maybe higher heat. Okay. So a little more. So you'll do that three or four times? Yeah. Two or three times. You test it at the end until it's nice and tender. It should still be a bit al dente in the center. Really? Oh, yeah. Slightly. Okay. So I'll let you do this. Do you want me to stir, stir, stir? Well, you stir occasionally. Yeah, it's cooking here good. A little more. And I think my burger could probably be turned now. I don't want to overcook my salmon either. You see the amount of heat that I have in my burger now, the amount of heat that I have in the pan and the way it's cooked now, I could really basically, well, maybe in 10, 15 seconds, I shut it off and I leave it like that in the hot, you know, in the hot pan. And we are going to do an arugula salad to serve with the salmon. Okay, I'm shutting it off now. Salmon is really good with Pinot Noir. Yeah. You know, with red wine, it's perfect for it. Here is my arugula. This, I actually have a little Napa Valley Merlot, which I think is going to be quite lovely with it as well. Thank you. Is this a good spot for you? Any place you put a glass, it's a good spot for me. Shall we drink? Drink and taste. Oh yeah, this is good. This is very good. Yeah. Just remember the name for me. Okay. One, two, three. That looks so pretty. Doesn't that look good? And you can say, okay, but, and it's, it's light and there's no carbohydrates, so we're going to serve it with risotto. Oh, here, would you like a plate for that too? Yeah. There you go. You want to flip it? No. Okay. Not particularly. I'm going to cut it maybe on the counter here. Why don't you put it here? The risotto is pretty close. So see, it's like, you can see the inside. Oh wow. You have a hole like this. It is like soda bread. Yeah. But I mean, this is a cinch to make a bread when, you know, you come home and you have no bread. I'm sure he's crying. See, I want bread with my dinner. Okay. As long as we have butter, you know, your granddaughter. Yes. I think that's my favorite thing ever. Our salmon on arugula salad. We have the bread here, the Tibetan bread. The risotto is really close. I think we can probably add the cheese and stuff. That's it. Well, now you put the rest of it. Now it has to cook for another minute. Now, do you want to taste? Yes. Always finish with butter. Yeah. It's starting getting crusty a little bit in the butter. That's good. Isn't that called sopra when you do it with, is that what it's called when you do it with paella? When you do it with paella? You know, that crust that you get on the bottom? Oh, the crust, with the crust on the paella. That's in Spanish. This is in Italian. That is different. Now, cheese. Yeah. A fair amount. Butter. Fair. I like that term. It's fair. A couple of tablespoons. Not even. Tablespoon and a half. Maybe two tablespoons. Okay. Stir it. I want to put my broccoli in there. Good. This is what good food is about. Is what you're going to eat next. I'm putting a little bit of parmigiano on top. Good. That's really good. Okay. Here we are. The risotto with broccoli stem, salmon burger on baby arugula, and the Tibetan grape. Now, I want to show you how to make the grapefruit supreme. Oh, we do this for Christmas a lot, too. You do that for Christmas. You know, when you go to the market and it does cost a great deal of money when you buy those candied rind of orange, grapefruit, and all that. This is the way you do it. Usually, you want to pick a nice red, what do they call it? Ruby red. Ruby red, yeah. For this, I mean, just with one, you have a lot. Yeah, definitely. So, basically, here, about that length, I'm cutting pieces like this. And it's okay to leave the pit on? Well, on this one, I'm leaving the pit on. It makes it much thicker and all that. You'll see. It's unique to the grapefruit, I think. By the time it finishes, it becomes really completely transparent and pink. If you don't put the pit on, remember, I've shown you how to do it when you cut the top with a vegetable peeler. So, you just have the top part of it. Then you blanch it once. But now, if you do it as I'm doing here, then you blanch it like three times. Otherwise, it's really bitter. Oh, and that's how you get rid of the bitter taste? So, I have more than enough here. What I wanted to do, they're all about the same size. Okay, you can get rid of that. So, what you do, you put that into cold water, and the water is boiling here. But basically, you want to put that into cold water. Then you want to bring it to really a strong boil. Boil it for like 30, 40, 50 seconds, a minute. Then you drain it. Then you do it again. And basically, after all that time, this is what you have. Oh, wow. Okay, so it does. It's getting transparent, but this is not good. So, now we're going to put sugar in water. Three quarters of a cup of water, a third of a cup of sugar, and that's it. Now, I bring that to a strong boil, and it's going to have to boil for about seven, eight minutes, I would say, before it gets totally candied. You see that, Titine? Oh, nice. See the way it reduced? And it's clear. I mean, they really are. They're almost transparent. You see the way they are transparent? Yeah, that's beautiful. Good. So, the syrup here is almost to the ball stage, and that's fine. You don't want to reduce it too much because those things now get very, very hot. So, here you have about half a cup of just regular sugar, right? That's fine. So, what I want to do here, you put that in, and you do, of course, the same thing with orange and candied. Okay, I'm going to use this. Now, here, yeah, you can... Oh, here I am trying to be all nice and neat. No, no, you want them to be totally coated with the sugar. Do you press the sugar, or you just toss it? No, no, no, no, no, no. Just whatever sticks, sticks. So, we have some more. Now, you see this? Bring this here. Look this way. This is hard. So, they get hard? They get hard, yeah. So, we put those right here. They keep for a long time, too. You can put it in a jar and have it for 20, 30 years, 40 years. You can have it. You might not eat it, but you can have it. Okay, go ahead, do that. And you know what you can do also, which is a great treat? We can dip them in chocolate. So, after they get a little hard like this one here, you can dip them in chocolate, and then you put that on wax paper, like I have wax paper here. You put them on top, put them in the refrigerator. They will cool off, and they will look exactly like this one here. You can have white chocolate, of course, and you can have, you know, milk chocolate and so forth. Milk chocolate? No. No, no milk chocolate. Okay, so the dessert that we're going to do here, I have my syrup, which is pretty thick and nice. Inside, I'm going to put a little bit of Grand Marnier. Far away from the flame. It's still on the orange family there, and make me a beautiful syrup here. That's good too. And then we'll put some of the orange, the grapefruit segment here. I have my segment, dry cranberry there. I like dried cranberries. I do too. So, this is really a winter type of dessert, you know, which is beautiful. You're going to pour sauce on it? I'll wait for it. I'll put a little bit of a beautiful sauce with the Grand Marnier on top here. So, basically, this is just the leftovers of making this beautiful dish. Well, this is the leftover of this, or this is the leftover of that, or I don't know. But yeah, you could put it around, but you really don't want, or serve it at the last moment, you know, so that it doesn't really melt of this and that. And this is a beautiful Christmassy type of dessert, you know, the grapefruit supreme. Now, when your family is all together around the table, life is good. Life is good. Happy cooking. Visit our website at kqed.org slash more fast food my way to learn more about Jacques Pepin. 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