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♪ *Lauren humming along with John* ♪
J: Hm....I need a bit more headroom
L: Yup.
♪ *Hot for Food intro music playing* ♪
L: What's up it's Lauren.
J: And John
L: And we are Hot for Food, of course! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
J: And today, I'm super excited for today's challenge
L: Oh! I get it! It's a punnnnnnnn
L: We're doing "The Vegan Soup Challenge"!
L: Now, some of you probably live in warm climates
L: -where you don't to eat soup to feel like a human being
L: But where we live, it's so COLD!
J: Today, it feels like -20c
L: Yeah, and it's still winter here still. We live in Toronto, Canada. So some of you can relate for real.
L: But, anyways, we're still on a soup kick, uh.. loving the soups.
Both: In the winter
J: It warms you up, to the bone
L: Let's recap what happened in last time.
J: um, like what?
L: Yeah, you won.
J: Yeah.
L: The "Fast Food Challenge".
L: The....
J: -"Naked Chicken Chalupa. Thanks you guys
J: Some people actually attempted it, and made it. And it looked
L: It looked SOOOO good! Like as if we have made it. So.
L: Congrats!
♪*Both applause silently* ♪
J: And congrats to me
L: Now hang on, it was a very close run
J: It was one of the closest we had
L: Yeah, it was like 46% or something for me and 53% for you
L: Is that good math?
L: It's at, um I'm missing percentage. Anyway 47% to 53% or something like that?
L: And um, anyway, it was fun. So let's get into the soup right here because I'm freaking freezing.
J: Alright little lady, what are you making?
L: Uh, well. I'm gonna make a dumpling soup.
L: Um, a few people have asked for it on the channel.
L: And I figure it's fairly straight forward. It's kinda a classic, uh um, I never ate dumpling soup growing up
L: I don't know what origin "Dumpling Soup" is.
L: I don't know! I'm going to make mine very veggie-full.
L: Like
J: Veggie-full...
L: From like from um, recipes I looked up online.
L: There's like, ones that's got a cream base with chicken
L: Chicken and dumpling soup
L: And then there're ones that are more brothy based
L: With like dumplings and like onions
L: Like I'm going to put kale in it
♪ * Lauren laughs* ♪
L: Oh yeah, because I want it to look healthy
L: Even though there's mounds of dough and gluten and soup
L: I Still want to- like oh! I'm still eating lots of vegetables
J: I went to this restaurant once, when we were filming a TV show
J: And it's this thing of pourian street food resturant
L: And they had something called like a locksa bowl
J: Which is like a coconut...curry ......
L: Mmmm hmmm.
J: Brothy soup
J: With like a rice noodle in the bottom and so..
L: And I see some yellow paste curry here. So like a golden curry
J: The yellow curry is important because it's the mildest
J: So you're going to be drinking this broth and I don't you to be like... only to be able to have a few sips of it
J: It's mainly a soup, so the broth is most important
J: So I'll want you to slurp and sip the whole
*John starts poking knife in his face to show Lauren*
L: You're like putting a knife in your face!
J: Slurp and sip the whole um.. broth and not
J: And not have a destroyed mouth
L: kay, so you're putting rice noodles in it?
J: Yeah!
L: Okay, well, that's basically my
J: so is that still soup?
L: Yeah, that's my
J: okay
L: That's my favorite kind of soup
J: Okay, so the name of the game with soup is
J: is to be quick, and uh, easy. so prep is key here
J: Everything sliced and chopped exactly how you want it
J: So that when the time comes and it's ready
J: you're not chopping, trying to race the clock, you're just throwing it right in the pan
J: And you're good to go so
J: We start by adding onions and some oil in the pan
♪ * onions sizzling in the pan* ♪
J: So once the onions are soft, you're gonna add
J: minced garlic, and ginger
J: This smells... insane
J: Kay now I'm going to add the curry paste, and one can of full fat coconut cream
J: Then I'm going to add lime leaves
J: Two cups of broth, and bring that to a simmer
J: It's rich and it's, curry-eee, but it's not quite there yet
J: And I'm gonna add a couple more spices. I'm thinking turmeric, help with the colour and
J: I would take a little more heat, so maybe a little bit of cayenne pepper
J: Kay, I'm going to quickly cook my rice noodles, just in a separate pot of boiling water
J: Okay, so I think the soup needs a little bit of texture
J: and I'm going to get that from frying up some
J: some tofu
J: I'm going to shallow fry some firm tofu
J: In a pan
J: And add salt, pepper, and paprika
J: To cook your veggies, wait till the broth is simmering
J: I'm gonna add my broccoli and red bell pepper
J: Let those cook
J: And at the very end add lime juice and salt to taste
L: So I'm to start by making the dough for the dumplings
L: and it's very simple
L: It's just flour, baking powder and salt
L: and then mix that together
L: create a well, and then add some oil and water
L: You don't have to do this but I'm just going to add some herbs to make them look a bit more lively-er
L: So when the dough comes together, it's going to be a bit wet and sticky
L: you're going to make it rest here while you make the soup
L: Alright, you're going to add some oil to your stock pot
L: And onions, carrots, and celery
L: Sautè this for around 3-4 minutes
L: Then add garlic, thyme, sage, dill and ground pepper
L: And stir for another two minutes
L: Okay, now add diced potato
L: and cook for another 2 minutes
L: Then add your stock
L: Then bring this to a boil to cook the potato for about 8-10 minutes
L: So once the potato tender and the broth is still at a boil,
L: You're going to dole up some amounts of your dumpling dough into the water
L: And then they're going to puff up and float to the top
L: you and let them cook for 8-10 minutes
L: and then in the last couple of minutes, we are going to add your greens
L: So I'm adding peas, chopped kale, and parsley
J: kay, so the broths are simmering
L: hoooo, they smell good
L: Both of them
J: Let's put these bad boys together
L: Assembly time!
J: I was going to wear a white shirt for this video
L: hmm ha ha ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
J: That would have been a bad idea
L: awe, there's slurping going on here
L: Hm! Hm! Hmhm!
L: Have you ever had dumpling soup?
J: Hm....
J: I think I used to eat dumplings when I was growing up
L: IT'S GOOD!!
L: Ha ha ha ha!!
L: Switch!
L: Hmmmm!
HM!!
L: They're both like.. resturant worthy!
L: What kind of restaurant is mine at? Mine's at a diner.
L: Where the heck do you even get dumpling soup?!
J: Your soup would conserve in a country that's povished.
J: Cause it was like, you've got flour, and dough. It's all filings with potatoes, which are cheap.
J: Filling dumplings, which are like.
L: I've got kale though, where ever that is
L: I made it fancy
L: Everybody is going to make fun of me for using kale
♪ *Lauren laughs* ♪
J: The humble soup
J: The fridge cleaner
L: These aren't fridge cleaners though
L: These are like, made with intention
J: yeah, but you could add
J: You could add things to this that you have in your fridge
J: Like, we have mushrooms kicking around
I could've easily added mushrooms to this dish
J: Snow peas..
J: And same with yours
L: Yeah, true
*Lauren sniffles*
L: I could see cauliflower being in my soup
J: Heck! You could even put corn in this or frozen corn
L: Mmm hm!
J: Are you going eat all of my soup or are we going to or are we going to finish the video
L: Hm! I'm really hungry so..
L: Well! I'm very impressed with both of these soups.
L: But it doesn't matter what we think, it matters what you think!
L: Cause you are voting who wins "The Vegan Soup Challenge".
L: Vote in the pole, in the the corner, right there
L: Click the "i" icon
L: So is it going to be my "Vegan Vegetable Dumpling Soup"?
J: Or my "Golden Curry Soup"?
L: Very tough I think!
L: Very easy to make both and decide for yourselves
L: So before we leave you, all the hardcore people watching receiving this very important
L:announcement from "Hot for Food"
L: Ha!
J: I'm not telling them, you tell them
L: Are you afraid?
J: Yea
L: Yeah
L: We are going on a little bit of a hyades
L: Just like every good television show
L: Has its seasons, and they take a break. That's what we're going to do!
L: Because we need it!
L: otherwise we are going to collapsed and burn out
L: and not be able to make content for you on going-ly
L: We are just taking a break from production, so we we will not be posting new videos after March 29th.
L: For a few weeks
L: I'm not even going to even tell you when we are going back because I don't know
L: but it won't be that long
J: No! You're making it sound like we are leaving forever
L: We are not! We're just leaving for a month, or a month and a half
4-6 weeks
J: Why?
L: Because I just explained why
♪ *Lauren laughs* ♪
J: You finished the cook book!
L: Oh and I finished the cook book
L: And the whole plan of that was a soon as I headed in my cook book
L: I was going on a trip
So, that's what I'm doing
L: really need a break for my
J: And you have earned it
L: I earned it, I need a mental break, like, being truly honest here
L: That's the place to be honest, here on Youtube
L: So anyways, we've so appreciate your dedicate to watch every week
L: You'll have to binge watch on old episodes
L: But next week on March 29th, on our regular Wednesday, we will have a special episode, for "Hot for Food" for you
L: So tune in next week for our brand new episodes
L: That will be quite hilarious.
J: It's so funny
L: And then, uh, and then, no videos for 4-6 weeks
L: Thanks for watching!
J: Don't forget to
L: Don't forget to vote for me!
L: Find the recipes linked below
L: On "Hot for Food" blog com
L: Enjoy them, warm yourself up, get cozy, and we'll see you later!! :)
♪ *Lauren blowing kisses* *John waving goodbye* ♪