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- All right,
so you guys know that one of my favorite ingredients
to use for like plant-based meat alternatives is mushrooms.
And I saw someone that we all know, Gaz,
make shawarma out of mushrooms,
and he did it outside over like an open flame
and it looked so good.
So I thought I would test out that recipe,
but make like a simpler version of it
because obviously I can't do it over an open flame,
outside in my backyard because I live in the city.
So today I want to test out Gaz,
or Avant-Garde Vegan's shawarma recipe.
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While my pan is heating up over a high heat,
I'm going to mix together all of the spices
for the spice mix.
So mix together your spice mix, easy peasy.
And then I'm going to add a couple tablespoons
of the spice mix to my harissa dressing.
I mean, it's a lot of spices for the amount of mushrooms.
Who am I to criticize this recipe, but it's a ton of spices.
And I love spices.
Like I love using her herbs and spices and everything else.
So for me to say it's a ton, it's a lot.
So just whisking the spice mix,
two tablespoons of it, into this dressing,
and I'm just gonna set it aside.
So I've heated up a pan here over high heat.
I'm going to take a bunch of these oyster mushroom clusters,
which is what our meat is going to be made out of,
and put it into the pan
and then press it with another cast iron pan on top.
So similar to how I've been making the mushroom steaks
that I've done on this channel,
we're going to do the same thing.
(mushrooms sizzling)
This pot will do.
Pressing it with the pot.
I'll probably put the cast iron on top just for weight.
The leaning tower of cookware.
All right, so it's been five minutes.
I'm just going to season them generously,
give them a flip,
and then cook them for another like four to five minutes
And then repeat with the rest of the mushrooms.
Well, in batches until you are done.
(mushrooms sizzling)
Ow.
So this is definitely a process.
You could do this in a couple steps or batches,
if you didn't want to do this all in one go
and have like a long cooking process.
I mean, I think you could do this part the day before
and keep them in the fridge, I'm sure.
I ended up adding another pan here
so I can have two going at the same time.
Otherwise this will take forever
if you don't want to crowd the pan.
I don't think I mentioned I am halving the recipe,
just because his recipe feeds 20 people.
And even with crew here, we are not 20 people.
So halving the recipe just to make it a little bit easier
and a little bit more cost-effective
since oyster mushroom clusters are quite expensive.
Okay, so he does say in his recipe
to cook this the entire time over a high heat.
I did that and this batch burned
when I did it for like the time
that he said on the high heat,
I could have paid a bit more attention,
but I have two going.
So I definitely would turn down the heat
after the first like, turn.
So turn it, because the spices are burning
on a high heat like that.
So turn it to like a medium high,
or even a medium to do the rest of it.
So even here, you can see some of those spices are burning,
so I'm going to use a bit less spice
and also turn the heat down.
Once you have filled your skewer,
you can roast the kebab in your oven for 20 minutes,
drizzle the harissa dressing before roasting.
Okay, so skewer them, drizzle the dressing, roast it.
So I assume I'm going to be doing it standing up.
Maybe I'll put some tinfoil down
because this will help it stand.
All right, so he is a big metal skewer.
His mushroom clusters are also a lot bigger,
so I'm going to use two,
maybe three of these soaked kebab sticks
and just like thread them on.
So I'm just curious.
I'm just gonna give it a little taste.
I mean, it's delicious.
It's marsh, not marshmallow.
It's delicious.
The seasoning is really good.
I do have some leftover, but I mean,
he had a ton of mushrooms.
I halved his recipe and I still have some left over,
but I'm actually not mad about it
because I can use it for other things.
Let's start with the thick ones maybe.
Break that off for me.
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So I did have to get a combination
of like normal oyster mushrooms and then black ones,
and the black ones do turn a bit of a gray color
as opposed to like a nice brown that the other ones do.
So, I mean, if you care about that,
don't go with the black ones.
So I'm trying to get it to stand up
so it doesn't fall over while it cooks.
So I'm just trying to make some sort of tinfoil base here,
but then I also have this cooling rack here.
Seems pretty good.
And then, like I said,
he does his over a fire and a spit, which,
I live in Toronto.
I will get arrested.
The fire department will show up.
It won't be great.
So I'm just going to do it in the oven.
So he says to bake it in the oven,
if you're going to do it in the oven, for about 20 minutes.
I think I'm going to go in every 10 minutes.
So in the middle, I'll go in.
Math, what is it?
And I'm just going to baste it a little bit more
and just keep my eye on it and baste it as I need to.
It's been about 10 minutes.
I'm going to take it out of the oven, give it a quick baste,
just to make sure
that we're locking in a lot of that moisture,
and then stick it in for another 10 minutes.
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So this looks amazing.
It's like got some charred bits.
It's nice and juicy it looks like in the middle here.
I mean,
for someone who had COVID and still can't really smell much,
this smells pretty good.
That's a good sign.
(soft jazz)
This looks so good.
I mean, let's build a sandwich
because that's why we're here.
So I have just this Lebanese style pita.
I'm going to
have utensils ready.
All right, so I just have this Middle Eastern style salad.
Toss some of that in there.
And then of course, this shawarma just looks incredible.
And I just made a very basic yogurt sauce.
Just yogurt, garlic, herbs, some lemon.
Oh my God.
This is incredible.
Like everything from the texture to the flavor.
Yeah, even some of the smokiness from the charred bits.
Mm.
Like this is everything that I want and more in a shawarma.
All right, well, I don't think we've made a Gaz recipe yet
that hasn't worked.
Maybe we should be testing someone else's recipes.
But this one I found so intriguing
and I'm so glad that we tried it.
It looks unreal.
It tastes unreal.
Not very difficult to make.
It looks a lot more difficult in his video
because he's doing it on spit over a fire,
but for at home use, definitely a lot easier.
10 out of 10 would recommend.
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This is so good.
- Hi guys.
It's me, Molly.
I literally could not resist but to try this recipe.
So I'm just going to go for it
and just make myself a little sandwich.
Let me tell you, these mushrooms are hard to find,
but when you do find them, at likely an Asian grocery store,
get lots because I thought
that we were going to have too many
and we had enough to feed like four, but we're also hungry.
Oh my God.
Mhm.
We got to make this for sure.
The mushroom texture is just unreal
- I feel like the drama
at the beginning of the video was worth it.
Like his video, like how he's dramatic and he's like
"Oh my God."
- Yeah.
- [Candice] Worth it.
- I don't know if I'm going to like drop down to my knees
in the grass, but I might.
It's good.
Did that sound dirty?
I'll do a shawarma dance, that's for sure.
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