[0:00] I'm guessing when people come to this
[0:01] channel for the first time they probably
[0:03] think being a pro home cook means you're
[0:05] making bread for 2 days straight or
[0:07] you're cooking up meals that take hours
[0:09] to produce but the truth is I'm busy
[0:13] just like all of you and a lot of times
[0:16] my meals do not look like that at all I
[0:18] get home from a busy day and I'm just
[0:21] trying to produce a meal in 15 minutes
[0:24] and that's what a pro home cook is still
[0:27] showing up when you're tired when you're
[0:29] busy to put food on the table and that's
[0:32] what today is all about I'm going to be
[0:34] showing you my top four 15minute meals
[0:38] those dishes that are super customizable
[0:40] that I continue to go back to when I'm
[0:43] either busy when I'm lazy or I just want
[0:46] a really delicious meal in a short
[0:49] period of
[0:51] time so first off here's the new set the
[0:53] new PR cook set it won't look like this
[0:55] for long and I'm not getting rid of the
[0:57] studio I'll explain all of that later
[1:00] but here's what we're working with now I
[1:02] wanted to film a video here before I
[1:05] renovate and make this more within the
[1:08] pro homecook Style just to have a little
[1:10] before to compare it to the after but
[1:12] that's coming over the next few months
[1:14] for now let's get into the recipes and
[1:15] the first recipe we're doing is a
[1:17] 15minute pasta just a quick tomato sauce
[1:21] and most people in a Flash would go for
[1:24] a can of tomato sauce like this or jar
[1:27] but today is about making 15-minute
[1:28] dinners that are still complet
[1:29] completely made from scratch that's the
[1:32] challenge and the best way to accomplish
[1:34] that are these babies right here cherry
[1:37] tomatoes why because they are packed
[1:40] with flavor they're packed with sugar
[1:43] you don't need to Stew them down for
[1:45] hours and hours to get a lot of flavor
[1:48] it's going to take a very short period
[1:49] of time first things first let's get a
[1:52] pot of water on the burner and just
[1:54] bring that up to a boil for the pasta
[1:57] next I'm going to get a pan on a burner
[1:59] pre heating on a low heat I'm going to
[2:02] dice up an onion nice and small so it
[2:05] Cooks quickly and I'll dump in a good
[2:07] bit of olive oil to coat the bottom of
[2:09] the pan and there's really not many
[2:11] ingredients so a high quality olive oil
[2:13] is really going to help you out so I'll
[2:15] throw the onions into the pan and start
[2:18] sweating them down and in the meantime
[2:20] I'll chop up some garlic and generally
[2:22] I'll just slice it because it's quicker
[2:24] and I find that it's a little easier to
[2:26] protect from burning when you got those
[2:27] bigger chunks I'll toss that in with the
[2:29] onions and cook everything down for a
[2:31] few
[2:32] minutes so I'm just sweating the onions
[2:35] and garlic you can see I'm not really
[2:37] getting too much color but that is a lot
[2:39] of Flavor now a lot of things are about
[2:41] to happen salty dump in these Tomatoes
[2:44] whole they'll pop they'll stew down put
[2:46] a lid on that so they start to break
[2:48] down now my water is boiling so I've got
[2:52] some pen here use whatever you want
[2:55] throw that in there I'm guessing that's
[2:57] like 7 or 8 minutes 12 to 14 minutes
[3:00] that seems aggressive this is a pretty
[3:01] vigorous boil I don't think it's going
[3:03] to take that long if it does we're
[3:04] already breaking rules so I'm going to
[3:06] keep my eye on that I'm going to keep my
[3:08] eye on that in the meantime I'm going to
[3:10] chop up some parsley you can use basil
[3:13] if you want and some Parmesan so
[3:15] typically I would microplan the parmesan
[3:18] right into the pasta but I don't have
[3:19] one right
[3:21] now I think that works sort of eh good
[3:25] not good so let's take a peek here so
[3:29] those tomatoes look amazing and
[3:30] typically I would take like a potato
[3:32] masher but I only have a few tools right
[3:35] now in this kitchen so let's see what I
[3:37] this might work and I just want to smash
[3:39] it's really going to speed up the
[3:43] process I'll turn that down to very low
[3:47] I'm telling you that took no time and I
[3:50] mean that looks pretty damn good to me I
[3:52] don't even have a spoon to try I'm using
[3:55] this
[3:55] spatula so sweet already incredible
[3:58] that's why I love those ch little bit
[4:00] more salt Cracked Pepper can I do this
[4:02] with one hand not very well Che in on
[4:05] the pasta cooking away so that was like
[4:08] 10 minutes and this is definitely alente
[4:10] so watch how this comes together this is
[4:12] looking amazing even though that's
[4:14] reduced a lot totally fine cuz we're
[4:16] going to add a lot of liquid right now
[4:18] pasta right
[4:19] into sauce We'll add just a little bit
[4:22] of that for now now we really want the
[4:24] noodles to suck up that sauce and to
[4:26] create a creaminess with all of that
[4:28] extra starch like right now that's
[4:30] looking a little bit weak noodles look a
[4:33] little bare take a little more of this
[4:35] create more sauce let that reduce and
[4:38] get thick okay now we'll get that cheesy
[4:41] in
[4:42] there a little more pasta water now it's
[4:46] looking so much better when it's at that
[4:49] point we'll add the fresh you can use
[4:51] basil too little water to just thin it
[4:54] out a bit transformation
[5:00] little
[5:03] pepper I don't even have a goddamn Fork
[5:07] bone up
[5:08] petite now don't extract 15 minutes the
[5:11] very first time you make this anytime
[5:13] you try something new it's going to take
[5:14] some time to get into the flow but this
[5:17] pasta dish right here is an absolute
[5:19] crowd pleaser the tomato sauce is loaded
[5:22] with depth of flavor it's got the
[5:23] sweetness got the creaminess the
[5:25] cheesiness perfect and you don't need a
[5:27] store-bought tomato sauce or tomato
[5:29] sauce that's going to take you an hour
[5:31] to make I wanted to hit multiple
[5:33] Cuisines giving you options plus that's
[5:35] how I like to eat so I'm going to do
[5:37] some Mexican food and generally with
[5:39] Mexican Cuisine you need a bunch of
[5:41] different elements to bring a dish
[5:44] together but if you make a
[5:46] quesadilla now that's something that can
[5:48] come together in under 15 minutes and
[5:51] that's what I'm going to do right now a
[5:52] quesadilla with a little twist I'm going
[5:55] to start off getting a sauté Pan
[5:56] preheating on a medium heat I'm using a
[5:59] nonstick but a stainless steel a carbon
[6:01] steel or a cast iron will work great for
[6:03] this as well first ingredient I'm
[6:05] prepping is the bacon so I'm going to
[6:07] chop up four pieces into small chunks
[6:10] get that sizzling away and rendering
[6:12] down in the pan now there's only a
[6:14] little bit more prep for this dish all
[6:16] I'm going to do is slice up a tomato
[6:18] nice and thin and for the cheese I'm
[6:21] using some fresh mozzarella and a little
[6:23] bit of spicy goua which is what I have
[6:25] but it's a quesadilla anything that
[6:27] melts will probably taste good what I
[6:29] like doing is tilting the pan a tad so
[6:31] you start deep frying that bacon in its
[6:33] own fat so you can finish it off with a
[6:36] nice even cook and I'm also going to
[6:38] save some of this extra fat for frying
[6:41] the quesadilla since we only need a
[6:43] little bit right now to sauté a whole
[6:46] bunch of spinach and the spinach is only
[6:48] going to take a minute to develop a
[6:49] little bit of color and to wilt down and
[6:51] you don't need any salt for that because
[6:53] there's plenty of residual salt in that
[6:55] fat from the bacon now all we have to do
[6:57] is Assemble two flour tortillas bottom
[7:00] layer mozzarella then I go on with the
[7:02] crispy bacon a nice even layer of
[7:05] spinach then about two to three slices
[7:08] of tomato per Dia and then sandwich that
[7:10] in with a top layer of spicy goua or
[7:13] whatever you have and smooshy smush so
[7:16] remember that save Bacon Fat well that
[7:18] goes back into the pan and I'm going to
[7:20] pop in those Dias and cope the bottom
[7:22] with fat and then flip them over right
[7:24] away making sure that one side doesn't
[7:27] absorb all of that fat in the cooking PR
[7:29] process and now my friends we fry which
[7:31] is actually a great time to get ahead of
[7:34] the cleaning always think about
[7:36] multitasking especially with these quick
[7:38] meals I know sometimes when we're
[7:40] preparing dinner it's a mad rush but it
[7:42] is nice to not be left with a huge mess
[7:45] at the end of your cooking process so
[7:48] I'm going to clean as much as possible
[7:49] while these quesadillas fry away
[7:58] [Music]
[8:02] now the beautiful thing about making two
[8:04] folded quesadillas rather than stacking
[8:07] two are these beautiful folded edges I
[8:10] personally like a folded Edge piece
[8:13] better than a piece like that that's
[8:15] already leaking out the side this is a
[8:16] contained bite right here plus it's much
[8:19] easier to flip and make now there is one
[8:22] more thing totally not necessary this
[8:26] baby is loaded with flavor already but
[8:29] because I have it because I have it and
[8:31] yeah I'll throw a recipe in the
[8:33] description this right here is an
[8:35] avocado cilantro Crema you could
[8:37] probably make it within the 15 minutes
[8:39] if this is frying I was actually
[8:40] thinking about that
[8:45] dippy typical quesadilla is usually just
[8:47] cheese maybe some shredded meat I like
[8:49] adding as many veggies as possible to
[8:51] make it more of a complete meal it's
[8:53] just something that's super simple to
[8:54] make it's quick and you can replace out
[8:57] those ingredients with anything I make
[8:59] this with with eggs all the time really
[9:01] whatever I have in the pantry is being
[9:03] customized into my
[9:05] quesadillas so this next one is a noodle
[9:07] stir fry something I make all of the
[9:09] time and you knew a stir fry would make
[9:11] it on this list because they're super
[9:13] quick to bring together now it's
[9:14] inspired by aatu the popular Thai Dish
[9:17] but I'm certainly not calling this
[9:19] traditional because I customize this
[9:21] with whatever I have in my fridge or in
[9:23] my
[9:24] pantry bring together something really
[9:27] delicious but there is one traditional
[9:28] ingredient I got to go grab real
[9:34] quick everybody's hanging out over
[9:37] here except
[9:40] you oh jackpot I would say eggs are the
[9:43] one mandatory for this
[9:47] dish thank
[9:51] you this stir fry starts off with a base
[9:53] of onions and peppers and make sure you
[9:56] slice your veggies up pretty thin so
[9:58] they cook faster when you're trying to
[10:00] make a quick dinner I would suggest not
[10:03] using olive oil it's just the only thing
[10:05] I have in this kitchen right now use
[10:06] something more neutral for this dish
[10:08] just coating the
[10:10] Bottom now while the veggies are stir
[10:12] frying on a high heat I'm going to work
[10:13] on some aromatics I'm using ginger and
[10:16] garlic I'm going to slice through both
[10:17] of them separately and then I can
[10:20] combine them and rock a fine chop then
[10:22] those go into the pan and I'll stir fry
[10:25] everything together for a few minutes
[10:27] it's all about high heat and quick color
[10:29] for a stir fry like this which you can
[10:31] see is developing nicely here now over
[10:34] here I wash some Bak Choy but any greens
[10:38] will be great you can use spinach haale
[10:41] any leafy green but I love box choy cuz
[10:43] it holds up nice to the stir fry and
[10:45] I'll just go
[10:48] [Music]
[10:51] B now once my veggies have some nice
[10:53] color I'm going to push them aside to
[10:55] make room for the eggs I'll crack in a
[10:58] few eggs give them a little scramble and
[11:01] incorporate that in with all of the
[11:03] veggies so I can stir fry everything
[11:08] together I'm going to shut out this
[11:10] brand right here they make a flat rice
[11:13] noodle specific for PSU but I've made
[11:16] this dish so many times with just rice
[11:18] noodles just make sure you soak them in
[11:21] cold water before if they're not fresh
[11:23] to hydrate them these don't need to be
[11:25] hydrated so now that that's in there I'm
[11:27] hitting it with the flavor little bit of
[11:29] sesame oil bit of rice vinegar for some
[11:32] Tang soy of course salty fish sauce
[11:37] Umami salty as well and then I'll add
[11:39] just a little bit of water to make sure
[11:41] those noodles
[11:42] [Music]
[11:45] hydrate so once the noodles are nice and
[11:48] softened that's when you can really
[11:50] start stir frying everything together
[11:52] getting some color on not just the
[11:54] veggies but also the
[11:56] noodles looking so good the last thing
[11:58] I'll do is I got some basil from the
[12:00] garden I'll throw that in there but you
[12:02] can use green onion or cilantro any type
[12:04] of fresh
[12:06] [Music]
[12:12] herb this is what I'm talking about on a
[12:15] fry on the egg crispy egg you want a
[12:17] little bit of that fry in the noodle I
[12:19] love this dish because it's complete
[12:22] you've got protein in there you've got
[12:23] veggies you've got carbs it's fresh and
[12:25] salty at the same time super
[12:27] customizable like I said telling you
[12:29] these are the actual dishes I make all
[12:32] the time you master just a few that's
[12:34] all you need to be a good cook or at
[12:36] least enough so your partner stops
[12:38] complaining this last 15-minute meal is
[12:41] by far my laziest and I say that very
[12:44] respectfully because I think every home
[12:46] cook needs a few lazy go-to meals in
[12:49] their arsenal when they're truly just
[12:51] tired at night and they need food on the
[12:54] table that's generally where this baby
[12:56] comes out you know I love the air fryer
[12:58] and you've seen me do Wings in the air
[13:01] fryer now I ranked six different
[13:03] techniques of air fryer wings and the
[13:06] very best one takes about 35 minutes but
[13:09] the second best one takes just about 15
[13:11] minutes and that's what I'm going to
[13:12] show you and while this thing is air
[13:14] frying well I'm going to whip up a quick
[13:16] little side dish I've got 12 chicken
[13:18] wings here a little over a pound into a
[13:20] bowl dust with some flour your favorite
[13:23] spice mix and some salt and coat until
[13:26] they look like that b I would spray it
[13:30] but I don't have spray a little bit of
[13:31] oil rub that on there
[13:35] Wings 380 15 minutes just enough time to
[13:39] whip up a quick salad so this is a
[13:42] single portion salad dressing we've got
[13:44] some lemon juice little bit of sweetener
[13:47] I'm using maple syrup but you can use
[13:49] honey tiny bit of mustard little salt
[13:53] little Pepe
[13:56] whisk as simple as it gets right
[14:00] lemon Dijon goodness right there put
[14:03] that aside slice up some red
[14:08] onion paper thin little bit of
[14:13] radish pop that in I've got some tomato
[14:16] left over from the quesadilla put that
[14:18] into some
[14:20] cubes and then I've got these beautiful
[14:23] little gem lettuce leaves big ones I'll
[14:25] just break in half small ones I'll keep
[14:28] whole
[14:29] and toss so I filmed making this salad
[14:32] which always takes a little longer and I
[14:34] still have 5 minutes left to go so I can
[14:36] clean now which will save me clean up
[14:38] after I eat all right 22 seconds left
[14:41] let's see what we
[14:43] got woo
[14:48] [Music]
[14:53] Perfection this might look like a
[14:55] ridiculous dinner but to be honest I eat
[14:57] this a lot me and my wife perfect dinner
[14:59] you can replace the salad with veggie
[15:02] sweet potato fries will do a lot
[15:04] probably my ultimate lazy meal right
[15:06] here but a lot of times it hits the spot
[15:09] perfect chicken wings a refreshing salad
[15:11] good balance there so these are four of
[15:15] my top 10 I would say 15-Minute Meals a
[15:18] lot of you asked for these quick dinners
[15:21] so let me know if you want some more
[15:23] I've got a few in my back pocket so as
[15:25] always thanks for watching and click on
[15:27] this video right here if want some more
[15:29] food inspiration
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