For Better Tasting Veggies, Cook Them Like Meat | Joe vs. The Test Kitchen
Professional Test Cook Joe Gitter has worked on over 20 cookbooks and performed hundreds of recipe tests. Joe vs. The Test kitchen is an inside look into the mistakes and wins from the recipe testing process, showing the right and wrong ways to cook amazing food. In this episode he breaks down the best way to cook veggies.
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I could listen to this man's voice all day
I will never cook veg w sugar
Cauliflower rice stir fry
Yes, more veg tips and recipes!!
I’m sicllian so we eat fresh veg. I have found salt, pepper and olive oil roast is always great. Adding garlic, Parmesan and/ or bread crumbs adds to the drama as needed.
These look great!!! The squash recipe was really helpful!!
Envious nail beds!
I'd like to see more in the "use the whole vegetable" line. Those butternut squash steaks looked fabulous, but I was disappointed that it took 6 lbs of squash for 4 servings.
One of the most toxic vegetables made in an even more ludicrous manner. So, in the time that you took to prepare this…dish, I could have just made a steak and that Millionaire's shortbread of yours that I've been wanting to try.
Vegetables are not food.
10:42 this seems ideal for a combination steam oven recipe. I wish there were more recipes out there for those of us that opted for a CSO over a microwave.
Can you post the link to the pastry brush you used to apply the rub to the butternut squash steaks?
I’m about to start work on a vegetable-focused cookbook that DOESN’T completely exclude meat. I’d love to hear your favorite veggie-forward meals. Thanks!
Parboiling in the microwave also keeps more of the good stuff in the food rather than having it leach into the water.
I love ATK vids, but despite lots of editing, I find there's often info left out. An ingredient not identified, for example
I’m a big fan of these plant-forward recipes! Thank you
The butternut squash steaks have me drooling!!!! 😋 Thanks for all the wonderful tips, Joe!! 🤗
Where are the links to recipes?
That fact that this chef was doubtful that he could make veges taste great speaks to the paucity of training of most chefs and explains why any vegan meal made by a chef in a regular restaurant has all the flavour of a soggy sponge. Basically, this guy has just discovered what vegans have been doing at home for decades and he thinks it's a revelation.
The squash looked delicious! Thing is there is all that squash leftover. What do I make with that? I recommend when you do this kind of recipe you have an additional recipe we can make to ise it up so it don't rot in the fridge waiting for me to remember to look a recipe for pieces parts.
All those tumbled pine nuts on the cutting board!
Please make a volume eating or anabolic cookbook. So tired of badly made bro recipes. Want real food that's healthy.
Food looks great but Joe Gitter has never cleaned a sheet pan. I worked my way through college washing pots in a kitchen and oil seared on to a sheetpan at 500 is not much fun to clean. Silpat, foil, parchment, anything saves a ton of work.
Would love more vegetarian or vegan content! Please make more complete veg mains though, this wouldnt be enough protein or calories to be satisfying as a main like its presented to be
I really need to eat more vegetables! This video inspires me. Love the presenter, easy on the ears and eyes
I eat a plant-based diet and appreciate y'all giving veg the center stage
I'm wondering if they will ever come up with ideas that make cooking easier in the test kitchen. Not everybody has hours to spend making dinner.
Every ATK veg episode has been fire. I would love more vegan focused episodes maybe a multi part miniseries
More of these recipes pls
Good tip with putting a towel over the handle of a hot pan (burned myself a few times by forgetting that thing just came out of a 400-degree oven), but it's important to add that the towel must be DRY. A wet or damp towel will get pretty dang hot itself after a minute.
Next, I’d love to see HEALTHY vegetable recipes. Why would you triple the calories in fresh green vegetables? (1/4 recipe = 176 calories per serving of broccoli instead of 51). These recipes mask vegetables instead of enhancing them, so in my opinion they fail.
I absolutely love ATK, but I wish the recipes weren’t always so smothered in oil or butter. You have incredible resources at your fingertips – focus more of them on great tasting healthy recipes, that we can feel good serving our families.
I LOVE THIS! Thank you for taking the time to bring a few vegan recipes into the spotlight.
I’d love to know what to do with the leftover squash
What a sad waste of time… spices I can't find because I'm not in NYC or sanFran,,, lots of little bowls of ingredients that I don't have an assistant to prepare, and this is why veggies just get steamed or roasted period. Just too precious.
More of this please!
That's 360 calories of oil on the broccoli. No wonder it tastes good.
You're told as a kid to eat your vegetables, but I feel like almost no adult eats enough vegetables nowadays.
everyone is so concerned to eat enough
protein,but they should really be more concerned with their vegetable intakeMe: Oooh, I wonder how he's going to prepare the vegetables…
Joe: You roast it.
Me: Cool. How's he going to do the next one?
Joe: You roast it.
Me. Alright, alright. But what about the third one?
Joe: You roast it.
Me: 😐
Joe is great. Whatever he says is worth a listen! I always try his suggestions. Love the butternut squash idea but will be partly sacrificing appearance for using the whole vegetable. Would like to see more Joe please ATK.