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Hey! I'm Hilah. Today we're going to make stir fry. Let's get healthy. Let's get physical.
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All right, first thing first is we're going to use tofu today. Get hard tofu and not a
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silken tofu. I think this is also called cotton tofu. It's sort of a spongy texture and the
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silken tofu is going to FU-up if you try to fry that shit in your skillet. What I'm going
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to do is cut it to open it. I'm hacking at it with a ninja sword over here.
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Now, you have this block of tofu. I'm going to cut it into four slices and one -- four
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slices, ta-da. All right, now I have our little slices. I'm going to lay them out on a clean
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towel and I'm going to press them with this thing for just a few minutes. I'm going to
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let that sit on there for a little while and you're trying to get the water out, so that
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a) when you fry it, it doesn't splatter and burn in your eyeballs and then also I'll absorb
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a little less oil.
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That's healthy and that's the theme of today's show guys: Health. That's been sitting for
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a couple of minutes. Squeeze some of the water out. It looks a little drier. I'm going to
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pre-heat my skillet because that's real important. If you watch my show you know that I'll say
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that all the time. If you watch every time I remember to say it, pre-heat that skillet
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rose and hose.
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I'm going to let it heat up before I even put the oil in. It's hot. I'm going to put
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in -- I never measure this. I bet it's probably like two tablespoons of oil. There's one,
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there's two; yeah, probably two. Just enough to get a little coating and then you can see
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my oil is already starting to boil and shimmer like a desert mirage, so that's good. I'm
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going to let that get pretty, pretty hot; no joke. I'm putting in my tofus, it's going
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to splatter a little bit, so be careful. Here we go. Wicked!
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All right, these are going to fry for, I don't know, I think it usually takes like 4 or 5
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minutes on each side. These are going to -- oh my god, totally burning me. These are going
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to cook for maybe like 4 or 5 minutes on each side, I think. I'll time it for you and then
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we'll find out -- I'm going to put a lid on it because this is getting splattered with
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boiling oil and stuff. It's driving me insane. All right, it's been like two minutes. I'm
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so bad with time, I apologize. Jesus, Lord.
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It's a little dangerous, but you know what? Buck it up, tofu is good for your over even
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stuff, especially if you fry it in some oil. All right, a couple of more minutes. It's
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starting to calm down now. The water has kind of come out and then it's not like freaking
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out like mixing water and oil, like Romeo and Juliet, I think where they talked about
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it's sort of like oil and water. I think that's where that comes from, thanks Shakespeare
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and HilahCooking. I'm going to turn off my skillet, save natural gas. All right, so they're
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like all -- it's a little toasty, a little toasty, crispy, and I'll set those aside while
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I do the rest of my preparations.
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I've got some vegetables cut up here. You can use really literally whatever the hell
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you want, it's awesome that way. You just want to make sure that everything is cut up
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in pretty small pieces because you're cooking at really fast and at really high heat, so
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the more surface area the better, the faster it's going to cook. You will want to put your
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harder things in first. I'll put my carrots and onions in before the broccoli, so that
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broccoli doesn't get all overcooked because everything should still be a little crispy
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and delicious and awesome.
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I have the oil left over from my tofu, and I'm reheating and then I'm going to put in
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my vegetables. First, go in my carrots and then my onions. I learned how to make this
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from my friend's mom in high school. We used to go over there, to her parent's house because
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they had all this land around their house and we would do mushrooms and hang out in
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the woods and stuff. We would go on walks and get hit by cars and then we would come
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back and her mom would be all like, "Do you like some stir fry?" We're all like, "Ugh...
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I don't like the look of that."
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You know, that's just a really vivid and I remember looking at this big bowl of stir
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fry and rice and totally tripping on mushrooms and just poking at broccoli. Anyways, I'm
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going to move on then. I'm actually going to make a little circle to put the broccoli
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in. Since I don't have a wok, this works fine, but you just have to make sure that everything
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is able to touch the skillet at some point. Whoa! You didn't see that.
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All right, and another thing about putting the vegetables in sort of in layers or something
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is every time you add something to skillet it's going to cool it down a little bit. If
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you put everything in at once, it's just going to drop your temperature like dramatically,
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really fast and then you don't get the stir fry effect; you get like a steam effect, which
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is not good. Okay, let's put that on high, do its thing for a few minutes while I cut
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up my garlic.
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I've got two little garlic cloves. Take that garlic. I'm going to smash them and then pull
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the peels out and then chop them up pretty tiny, done. Set it aside. Cut some green onions
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to add just a little bit spice at the end. I'm going to check on my little stir fry guys.
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This is good, this is good, very good. My broccoli is getting bright green. My little
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onions are all caramelize. This is going to be a really good breakfast. If any of your
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little broccolis don't look like they're getting done, just shove them to the bottom. Get down
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there. All right, look at this, it's almost done.
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I'm going to put my tofu back in. First, I'm going to quarter each of these pieces over
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here on my chopping board. I'm going to throw those biz back in there like it weren't nothing. Oh snap! Where's my soy sauce? Dang
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it! I'm going to kill somebody. Nobody freak out, found the soy sauce. All right, so I'm
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just going to put maybe two tablespoons, actually hold. I'm going to throw in my garlic and
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onions on top of there, distribute it as evenly as possible. Oh my god, I'm getting a text,
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hold on; just kidding. I shouldn't have said that, okay.
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It's probably more like a teaspoon actually. I'm going to pot in some red pepper too. It's
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going to be spicy. Screw it. Okay, this is done. One last little stir around to get everybody
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mixed. Turn that off. It's stir fry time baby. Oh my god! It's going to be so good. It's
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going to make me feel like a hundred times better, chockful of vitamins. All right, that's
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it. That's how to make super easy, super-fast, super delicious stir fry.
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Bye!