(fire crackling) (mellow music)
(Link grunting)
(fire crackling)
(food sizzling) (utensils clinking)
(Link exclaims)
- [Alvin] Hello there.
Welcome back to another episode of Arcade with Alvin.
Today, I'll be making the gourmet meat stew
from one of my personal favorite games
and probably one of yours, "Breath of the Wild."
I have in front of me a nice big slab of raw gourmet meat,
the highest quality of meat you can get in the game,
which is obtained by taken down some Water Buffalo,
which is exactly what I did.
Definitely didn't buy this for a lot of rupees
from that traveling merchant.
And we'll go ahead and season this nice USDA prime ribeye
with salt and pepper all over before we sear it.
I also have here two raw bird thighs,
or chicken thighs.
Definitely did not get these
from accidentally shooting my Ancient Arrows at pigeons
because I wanted to see what it would do.
I'm gonna go ahead and season these liberally as well.
And I'll be right back.
I'm gonna go forage for some vegetables for the stew.
After an exploration and a stop by the merchants
at the Dueling Peaks Stables,
I've now returned with many ingredients.
First up three Endura carrots,
which when consumed will increase my maximum stamina.
They're actually just carrots.
I'm just cutting them up into chunks.
Next up, two large potatoes.
They're just potatoes.
Following that, we have one large onion,
which after skinning and peeling,
also going to chop it into pretty large chunks here.
Also I walked through the Akkala Highlands for a bit
so I found some Hyrule herbs,
which include two bay leaves, two sprigs of thyme,
and one to two sprigs of rosemary.
All right, I think it's time to go build a fire.
Where'd I put my fire arrows?
All right, the fire's going,
so time to start cooking.
Just like the game, throw in your stuff.
I got one hardy durian in here,
and I'm also gonna toss in a couple
of Tabantha Wheat flour.
Yep, okay.
It's not working.
Looks like I'm gonna probably have to cook the normal way.
First, I'm splitting open this hardy durian.
If you're unfamiliar with this fruit,
It has a spiked outside,
and a very gas leak smelling inside when cut open.
So please do not bring this
to a professional corporate workplace.
My mom brought it to her water quality lab once,
and they had to evacuate
because they thought something was about to explode.
This durian looks a little suspicious,
not as fresh as I'm usually used to,
as it should be a nice, bright yellow.
So I'm just gonna use a little bit of this.
After scooping a couple of fruit lobes
out of their durian pockets,
I'm just cutting them up into smaller,
more manageable pieces.
And even though it hurts my steak-loving heart a little bit,
I'm gonna cut and chop up this beautiful ribeye
into smaller, manageable pieces for this stew,
'cause that's probably something Link would do
in order to make this cook faster.
Our fire's still going pretty hot,
so we're gonna place a pot down to cook.
Ow.
I'm gonna start by adding one stick of goat butter,
along with four ounces of Tabantha Wheat or flour.
And stirring this with the fat trimmings
from our gourmet meat until it becomes a roux
that looks like the color of peanut butter.
But once the roux looks good and thick,
I'm gonna add about 80 ounces of homemade beef stock
and stir pretty constantly to make sure
that there's as little lumps as possible.
When adding liquid to really hot roux,
It's important to stir constantly
but add a little bit of the liquid at a time.
If you add too much, you're not gonna allow the clumps
of flour to bump up against each other and break down.
So add it slow, let thicken,
and then add more.
Remember how I said I was gonna get a nice sear
on the meat before stewing it?
Yeah, I forgot.
So we're just gonna throw that directly into the stew.
But in my defense, I don't think Link's the kind of guy
to sear meat before cooking it,
'cause that just takes too much time.
He's got a lot of shrines to clear out there.
After giving the meat a little bit of time in the hot tub,
I'm gonna add in all the vegetables,
our carrots, our potatoes, and our onions,
followed by three garlic cloves and our Hyrule herbs,
stirring to make sure that everybody in there
is having a good time,
there's no fighting,
and I'm gonna cover this and let this cook
ideally on a low simmer with a low flame,
which could take about two hours or so,
which is great 'cause I kinda started
a lot of side quests while I was out exploring,
and I should probably clear out some of those.
Be right back.
All right, I am back.
Taking down that Lynel was pretty hard,
so I'm glad adding this hardy durian right at the end
is gonna gimme some extra hearts.
I'm gonna finish this stew with eight ounces
of whole milk as well for extra richness.
And after about 5 to 10 minutes,
just until the durian just starts to soften
a little bit more.
Stew's pretty much done.
So I wanna take this off the flame carefully
and plate up, because not only am I hungry,
I probably have no hearts right now
after that Lynel battle.
I like a lot of stuff in my stew.
Ideally an 80-20 ratio of chunks to stew in my stew.
Carefully taking one whole chicken leg
for myself right on top,
and two large chunks of the braised gourmet meat.
This is a single player game.
I am going to eat what I want.
And just to finish,
a little bit of finely-chopped Hyrule herb.
And in this case, it's parsley.
And I present to you our version
of the hardy gourmet meat stew
from "Breath of the Wild."
And maybe it's because I'm outside,
maybe it's because it's a nice day,
and the fact that we cooked this
for a couple of hours over an open flame,
but this tastes really good.
I'm not even kidding, this is seriously good.
There's so much flavor
from every single ingredient we put in there.
The meat's tender, the vegetables are tender,
the stew itself has such a nice flavor,
and the dairy in itself is quite pleasant.
Custardy, soft, and slightly sweet.
Oh, I almost forgot about these hardy truffles
that I found while exploring.
For some reason, you can just find hardy truffles
everywhere in the "Breath of the Wild."
Kind of wish real life was like that.
Was this splurge for game accuracy worth it?
Honestly, I don't taste them at all.
The stew is super strong in flavor
that kind of covers up the mild flavors of the truffles,
but everything else is awesome.
Eating a lot of this stew?
Yeah, that's a lot of hearts.
Probably can go take down Ganon now,
if I didn't use those Ancient Arrows on those pigeons.
God dang it.
Anybody know where my Master Sword went?
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