*frying process*
[lauren] hey everybody! it's lauren from hot for food and guess what we're doing today?
[lauren] RECIPE?! well you already knew that cos you saw the title!
[lauren] but it's about time we did a RECIPE?! because i've got a lot of food in my fridge.
[lauren] i've been testing, cooking, shooting cookbook photos and i have a lot of stuff in there.
[lauren] i'm not gonna lie to you, i kinda already thought about what i need to use.
[lauren] but regardless, this is where i rummage through my fridge, i see what i have,
[lauren] i come up with an idea, and i make a recipe without writing it down or knowing, really what i'm doing.
[lauren] at this point, i pretty much know how to cook good, cook well
[lauren] so i know what i'm doing and for the most part, these always turn out really great
[lauren] and we get some really neat ideas!
[lauren] so let's take a looky look through the fridge!
[lauren] okay! let's give you a full picture of what's happening here.
[lauren] always pretty much full of stuff.
[lauren] this is really weird and it might not even be good anymore,
[lauren] but this is batter for our cauliflower wings that i had to measure but i didn't use it.
[lauren] i thought, maybe i can just batter something else with it.
[lauren] i don't think these are good anymore, but these are roasted poblano peppers that i used a while back.
[lauren] now here's what i really wanted to use.
[lauren] you know our po' boy sandwich? oyster mushroom po' boy?
[lauren] well, i have oyster mushrooms marinating in that marinade for that recipe
[lauren] cos i was supposed to remake it and shoot a photo of it and i just didn't do that,
[lauren] so we have to use these!
[lauren] and i already had an idea!
[lauren] what i wanted to do is take the oyster mushroom po' boy marinated mushrooms
[lauren] which you all know how to make, cos you've made that recipe, i'm sure.
[lauren] but we're gonna double batter them like fried chicken.
[lauren] then we're gonna fry them, then we're gonna put buffalo sauce on them
[lauren] and they're gonna be fried BUFFALO OYSTER MUSHROOMS.
[lauren] i saw this on instagram from a restaurant.
[lauren] i don't remember what restaurant but it was definitely in the United States and so i'm going to copy it.
[lauren] i obviously don't know their recipe but we're gonna do our breading that we did on the naked chicken chalupa.
[lauren] and we're gonna do it to these guys.
[lauren] and hopefully, it will be tasty with the buffalo sauce and pickles
[lauren] and maybe ranch and - i don't know, drizzled over top.
[lauren] so this is a little more developed than i normally do a RECIPE?! because i already thought of this idea.
[lauren] i just really need to use these things up.
[lauren] whatever. now you know something else you can do with a recipe on our site, right?
[lauren] so i think what we should do, because these have gotten quite water-y,
[lauren] is put them in the other batter cos it's thicker.
[lauren] and we'll just let those sit in there for now.
[lauren] this looks disgusting.
[lauren] you know how we do, we deep-fry all the time!
[lauren] you need a big pot, you need your vegetable oil. this is sunflower oil, by the way.
[lauren] glugluglug!
[lauren] you need a good 2 or 3 inches in there.
[lauren] i'm pretty sure you've seen this and i've mentioned it before
[lauren] but you need a deep-frying thermometer.
[lauren] because you don't want your oil to get too hot, that's how we have problems and fires.
[lauren] so it's good to have one of these clip-on ones.
[lauren] so we're gonna do the flour with lots of spices to make it real tasty and fried chicken-like.
[lauren] because this is a RECIPE?! i'm not measuring anything. i'm just gonna eyeball this whole thing.
[lauren] if you're gonna wing this as well, you know you want things like chili powder,
[lauren] paprika, a bit of cumin, celery salt, salt, pepper,
[lauren] i like adding a little bit of cinnamon and allspice.
[lauren] sage, basil, oregano, you can pretty much throw anything into this batter and it's gonna taste good.
[lauren] oh, look what i have guys! poultry seasoning!
[lauren] that covers 7 spices right there.
[lauren] so add some flour to a bowl, you're gonna need quite a bit cos you're double breading.
[lauren] let's just go right in with the poultry seasoning, chili powder, smoked paprika,
[lauren] celery salt, sea salt, pepper, coriander, onion powder and garlic powder.
[lauren] and just a little bit of cinnamon.
[lauren] combine this all really well.
[lauren] alright, 350F to 365F is a good safe range actually for frying these things, i think.
[lauren] and just be careful cos mushrooms have a lot of water content,
[lauren] so they are going to splash a little bit more than normal.
[lauren] we're gonna double batter. you're gonna take an oyster mushroom from the wet batter,
[lauren] place it in the dry batter,
[lauren] you wanna have a wet hand and a dry hand.
[lauren] and back in the wet batter.
[lauren] make sure it's really well coated when you're doubling up and then back in the flour.
[lauren] okay, and then you take your little thingy thing and you plop it in the oil.
[lauren] you should put a rack over a baking tray,
[lauren] and that's where you're gonna let your little guys rest.
[lauren] i just did enough so that i could have a portion of food
[lauren] but i had a few more and it was getting real messy.
[lauren] really try to find bigger oyster mushrooms, which you can.
[lauren] not kind oysters, but actual oyster mushrooms in clusters.
[lauren] you can get ones that are really quite big and trumpet-like.
[lauren] i think that would work better for this but either way, they look amazing! they look like fried chicken!
[lauren] they're crispy!
[lauren] and really, i'm gonna keep this really simple today.
[lauren] i'm just gonna drizzle the buffalo sauce over top the hot sauce,
[lauren] drizzle the ranch over top, and then add some pickles and that's it guys!
[lauren] are you ready for the BUFFALO OYSTER MUSHROOMS?
[lauren] oh my god!
[lauren] this was the fastest, most delicious RECIPE?! i've ever made!
[lauren] mm!
[lauren] i really liked the drizzle of hot sauce as supposed to deeply coating them in the sauce but you can do whatever you want.
[lauren] mm!
[lauren] gets me so pumped up!
[lauren] alright, hopefully you liked that RECIPE?!
[lauren] i mean, this is like a recipe RECIPE?! hybrid.
[lauren] cauliflower buffalo wing batter, oyster mushrooms from our po' boy,
[lauren] you know what? you don't need to do the marination of the mushrooms.
[lauren] i think you can just let them sit in the cauliflower wing batter
[lauren] and then do the double breading fry thing.
[lauren] because i don't think you need that first marinade. i don't think it makes much of a difference
[lauren] once you cover it all with all this seasoning and breading anyways.
[lauren] and yea, bigger mushrooms! get bigger mushrooms!
[lauren] i'm gonna try this again with big pieces, but i mean it's delicious, it's amazing!
[lauren] i'm double dipping.
[lauren] mm! okay
[lauren] no, wait a sec.
[lauren] we'll do this again some other time, a RECIPE?! but i'm here every wednesday
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