Jamie’s Top VEG Tips | Jamie Oliver
Right you lovely lot, so I'm celebratingall things veg so I've given you a
whole bunch of different tips and tricksto help you prepping in style.
Let me show you some really easy ways to chop and slice your garlic.
We can slice it. We want to get our thumb out of the way. We want our fingers to go over the garlic
like this and just do that little tapchopping method
and slice it up like that.
Very, very simple. We can just continue to
chop through this to make chopped garlicand that's the cross-chopping method.
Very safe. You can see how delicate andfine it is.
There is another way you can do chopped.
Just grab your garlic clovelike this, just put it on a flat edge
just go about a millimetre slices, notquite to the end, like that
then flip it over and do exactly thesame.
Take your time and then you can put
it on its side and then you can literally just slice. That's rock-chopping method.
Look at that.Very, very nice.
Let me show you how to take the stone out of an avocado.
The humble avocado. Funnily enough, taking the seed
or the stone out of an avocado is one ofthe biggest causes of cuts to the hand.
So there's a really simple way to do itwhich means that it's all good and
doesn't end in tears. So just remove thelittle bit of stem from the end. It might
look like nothing but that can send yourknife in a totally different direction
which is really dangerous and then putthe avocado down very importantly and
then carefully but slowly cut using noweight or power down to the stone in the
middle then slowly rotate the avocado soit just gently cuts around. Twist it.
And then tap it on the board.
And off it comes.
Let me show you how to safely cut
and prepare a squash or pumpkin.
Let's have our hand out of the way.
We got this core here.Get that off first. Get the tip of our
knife in the centre, don't put too muchbody weight into it, rock it down. You're
just taking on the fight with half of itthen we can spin it around. See that cut
there? Put our knife back in, keep itsturdy, keep your fingers out the way.
Sharp blades, moving targets, not very good.
Getting the seeds out, let's just use a spoon.
These little seeds you canroast and of course you could plant
these. Let's get it on a flat edge, holdone end, go in at one half, spin around
and then go back to here. If you go to aquarter, you can use the same principle.
If you want to cut it into differentslices remember we got a nice flat base
here. That's how to tackle a big oldsquash or pumpkin in a nice safe way.
Let me show you how to remove the skineasily and fast from an avocado.
You see people picking this away, likethis, which takes a lot of time. It can be
a little bit bitty. That's the wrong wayto do it, in my view. Let me show you the
right way to do it. This is dead simple.Get a regular spoon like this, go in here,
push the spoon right on to the skin andpush it against the cup of your hand then
simply knock it out. Works every singletime. Really, really good.
And if you want to stop the avocados from discolouring,squeeze some citrus over the avocado.
An old-fashioned way of preparing avocadosin the 80s was to cut it not quite to
the end and then fan it out. It's reallytacky, I never do it these days but it
does tend to make people very happy. Sothere you go guys. Super quick but
doesn't it look good.
Let me show you howto make the most amazing, healthy,
delicious grilled veg.
Get your gas on a high heat then place a
really good-quality griddle pan on thereand preheat it for about four minutes to
get it nice and hot. Finely slice, chophalf or slither any vegetables that are
beautiful and in season. Without any oil,put them dry into a pan to lightly char
on both sides. When you cook veggieswithout oil, you get the most incredible
nutty natural flavour. You don't have tocook it all the way through, it's really
about just taking the raw edge off theveggies, applying a little bit of char
for added flavour and then when youremove it from the pan, we're gonna dress
it in gorgeous homemade dressing. Soveggies cooked like this are fantastic as
any side dish. It's wonderful in an antipastior tapas table. So there you go guys.
Let me show you how to reallyefficiently and easily deseed a chilli.
Let's just click off the stalk at theend, like so, and then very carefully we
want to split this chilli. Put the knifetip in the middle and gently put in to
the middle and down to the bottom likeso. Drag the knife very carefully. Now
I've done that slowly for you guys butit's as simple as this. Click and split.
Nice and easy.I'm gonna take a teaspoon and I'm simply
going to scrape down the contour of thechilli. This little teaspoon scoops out
the seeds. You can put these into alittle envelope and you can leave them
for a couple of months so they dry. Youcan plant these seeds. They'll grow into
wonderful chillies and you never everhave to buy chillies ever again. So there
you go guys, that's how you deseeda chilli nice and safely.
I'm going to show you two reallyquick ways to peel your garlic easily.
The first thing you do is just put your body weight onto your clove of garlic and just sort of break
it all off. Find the little core end here.Put your knife down like that but don't go
all the way through and then what I dois I just pinch off this here and if
you're lucky you'll get a whole stripleft just like that. So I've been lucky,
great, often you are. Then we put it backdown put the knife back down just give
it a good old friendly tap. Do not cutyourself. Angle the blade down.
At that point, we just take the skin, garlic, happy days.
There's another way to do it. Get yourself a rubberglove. Yes, you heard it right.
Take off one of the fingers, take off the end andyou've created a little cylinder.
Get your garlic clove, just pop it in androll it and then when it comes out the
other end, peeled, brilliant.
Let me show you two ways to peel your ginger in the most efficient way.
The most efficient way to peel a piece of ginger is simply to use a little spoon and scrape it.
Just like that.It barely peels just the brown skin off.
Ginger's not cheap, okay, and you don'twant to waste it so getting the minimal
skin off is a brilliant thing and thenyou've got a lovely piece of ginger
ready for some chopping action.
Now - let me show you another way to peel ginger.
You will see me do this quite a lot.
If you just let that dry in your kitchen
you can make the most fantastic gingerteas with a little teaspoon of honey.
It's brilliant any time of year. You canput that into a pan with stewed fruit
and it turns humble fruit like applesand pears into something way more exotic.
Hi lovely people. I'm going to show you howto prepare the perfect fennel.
Remove the top, keep it. Have a look atif there's any mark on the fennel. Remove it.
This is small fennel. It's the best. Soput those on the side then cut them again.
Remove that part which is tough. Youcan wash it if you want at this stage or
you can make a lovely salad.
This part is a little bit tough. Cut it. You can place
them in the oven with a little bit of butter andsprinkle some parmesan on top, fantastico.
With the tops, select it, all the greenparts. This will go very well with the
salads then with the top you can usethem in a stock - just a little bit
because it has a very strong flavour.
I'm going to show you how to prepare a celery.
First of all, chop the end.
Peel all the leaves off, wash under running cold water.
Cut off the ends. You can always use for stock.
Just a little cut. Break it andstart to pull it. Remove all the stringy
bits because the stringy bits it is not very nice.
Discard all the stringys.
I'm going to make a little salad. Chop up the celery, normally tomato, chop it. Nice pinch of
oregano, little salt, a drizzle of extravirgin olive oil, mix all together.
So delicious.
And this is the perfect celeryand tomato salad.
Jamie’s got together a load of great tips and tricks for you, and they’re all about VEG! From peeling garlic, to destoning avocado, he’s got a whole bunch of fantastic ways to prep, including a little cameo from Gennaro at the end. Enjoy! Thanks for subscribing! : https://www.youtube.com/user/jamieoliver?sub_confirmation=1 Links from the video: My New Book VEG 🥑🍆 🌽 🥕 | Jamie Oliver https://jamieol.com/VegBook How to Make Mushroom Stroganoff | Jamie Oliver | VEG https://jamieol.com/MushroomStroganoffVeg For more information on any Jamie Oliver products featured on the channel click here: http://www.jamieoliver.com/shop/homeware/ For more nutrition info, click here: http://jamieol.com/Nutrition x