- Hi, I'm Rie.
Today a friend will be challenging me to take a popular food
and make it fancy.
Today's friend is,
(hands patting) Aria.
Let's see what Aria wants me to make fancy today.
- Hi Rie. It's been too long.
The thing I would like you to try
to make fancy for me are Dino nuggets.
They're comfort food. They're a comfort treat.
I love dipping them in barbecue sauce and ketchup.
(lips smacking) (sighs)
I'm very excited for this challenge Rie.
I have high expectations.
I've tasted many of your fancy creations in the past
and I've loved all of them.
And I've scared you several times
in proclaiming how much I love them.
And I'm still very excited to try
whatever masterpiece you come up with.
- Dino nuggets. Nuggets shaped like a dinosaur (laughs).
I've never heard of this before.
Not dinosaur shape.
- [Producer] Not at culinary school?
- (laughs) No.
I'm also not familiar with all dinosaurs.
T-Rex the one with like tiny hands, right?
Which ones are Triceratops?
- [Crew Member] The one with three horns.
- Why do you know so much?
They look very friendly.
- [Producer] Oh, that's Herbie.
- Oh they have a name? - Yeah.
- What about this guy?
- [Producer] That's Bronto.
He's from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
(laughs) So they have like whole story behind it.
- [Producer] Yeah.
- Petra?
- [Producer] And she likes to read,
and she does karate, and plays the violin.
- (laughs) I think they started developing
character from Petra and they got bored (laughs).
Let's see to ingredients.
Everything is something I can't pronounce.
So this is the T-Rex.
(nugget crunching)
That's very good!
I liked the texture. I liked the crunchy outside.
It's not bad with ketchup,
but nugget by self has almost no flavor.
That's the area I have to improve.
Like my personal tastes
it doesn't need to be dinosaur shape.
Seems like dinosaur is very important for Aria.
- [Producer] Rie, what are you up to over here?
- I'm trying to recreate Jurassic era on the plate.
It's kind of fun (laughs) I take it back.
I want my all food dinosaur shaped from now.
Nugget's a complete food
so I think it's difficult to change this to something else.
But I have an idea and I'm excited to make it fancy.
(bouncy flute music)
Right. Here's what I got.
Carrots, parsley, broccoli, celery, eggs,
radish, butter, boursin, thyme,
frozen peas, red pepper, onion,
and garlic.
From the pantry I got black pepper, salt, flour,
sugar, bay leaves, vodka, and white wine.
Double alcohol.
All right. Let's get started.
(box rattles)
Make it fancy.
(mischievous violin music)
First step. Most difficult part. Make Dino nuggets.
So in the baking see all the Dino nuggets, space it out.
Bake this at 350 for 10 minutes.
Right, so this has been baked and cool to touch.
I'm going to remove the breading.
It's not coming off quite easy.
It's a labor of love.
My favorite memory of Aria
is definitely when he showed up like a human grape.
It was a Halloween episode.
I think it was maybe my favorite Aria memory
and a favorite Halloween costume too.
Last Petra!
It's kind of like I'm revealing what's inside.
Not a pleasant view (laughs).
I separated all nuggets
and breading.
Cook breading part in the oven at 425,
about 15 minutes.
And I'm going to use this naked nugget later.
The breading is golden brown and crunchy.
Add in the blender.
Two cups of flour, one tablespoon of sugar,
one teaspoon of salt.
And you want to blend until the breading is very fine.
Add in flour and blending mixture in a bowl.
Add 10 tablespoons of small, cubed butter.
Use this torture device (laughs).
And using the pastry cutter
cuts through cubed butter until like pea size.
Make sure there's no big chunk.
So it looks good.
Add two tablespoon of vodka,
add ice cold water as needed.
I'm going to start with two tablespoons.
If the dough doesn't come together, I'm going to add more.
And you kind of want to do this process pretty quickly
'cause you don't want to melt those cold butter.
So the dough came together, transfer to plastic wrap,
flatten this so it will be easier to roll out later.
Chill this dough in the refrigerator about one hour.
Okay so I have some naked nuggets,
and I'm going to cut them up like small dice for one cup,
add in two cups of water in a pot,
and adding a half onion, one celery stock,
two small carrots, two garlic cloves,
one bay leaf, thyme, and parsley.
Adding cut up chicken and bring this to a boil
and simmer for 30 minutes.
It has been simmering for 30 minutes
and I'm going to strain.
The Dino broth looks good.
I'm going to use this and naked nugget for next step.
Melt two tablespoons of butter.
I match with the pan too today.
All right, butter melted add half diced onion,
one stock of celery,
one diced carrot,
cook those until soft.
Add salt. Salt also helps cooking faster.
And while it's cooking, chop up more naked dino.
Naked dino? Naked nugget.
I don't think you have to sensor those.
It's a little bit more than a cup but,
you know, you have more meat.
Veggies look soften, add two tablespoon of flour,
and cook for two minutes just to remove like flour taste.
Flour looks cooked.
So I'm going to add my second alcohol,
quarter cup of white wine degrades the pot a little bit.
Add Dino broth,
one cup of naked nugget,
add in frozen pea, simmer until thickens.
And once it's thickened,
add quarter cup of soft herb cheese,
one teaspoon of thyme, two teaspoon of chopped parsley.
Season to taste, transfer this into a bowl.
Cool this down to room temperature,
cover with plastic, and chill in the refrigerator
about one hour.
I have the dough.
Use some extra flour on the surface.
Roll this dough until thin.
- [Producer] When do you think the chicken nugget invented?
- Let's see.
1956.
- [Producer] We know 1950s, - Uhuh.
- [Producer] We don't have the exact year.
- Oh wow, but.
- [Producer] But yeah got that, you got it.
- I don't know why I'm so good at this.
My pie dough is rolled
and I'm going to start cutting out
with dinosaur cookie-cutter.
Unfortunately we don't have Petra.
So we have T-Rex and Triceratops.
I feel like those are only two dinosaur
I can pronounce (laughs) and remember their name.
- [Producer] So Herbie says "If you ever need support,"
he'll find a way to make everything work out.
- Oh Wow.
He's kind of like a Matthew Mcconaughey of dinosaur.
(everyone laughing)
What's the purple dinosaur name?
- [Producer] That's Petra!
- No, no, no. The other purple one.
- [Producer] Bronto.
- No, no, no, no. Not the Dino nuggets dinosaur.
- [Producer] Barney! - Yes!
I feel like he's maybe the most famous dinosaur in America.
Like in Japan, most famous dinosaur is Godzilla.
Oh, Godzilla is not dinosaur. Is it?
Okay, so I cut out dinosaur shape
and I'm going to use rolling pin.
Without losing the shape,
I'm going to roll a little bit bigger.
So like how to evolution.
(producer laughing)
Put the filling,
you don't want to overfill it,
you're going to pinch the dough with finger.
I'm going to just shape a little bit, look like T-Rex.
Do the same way with Triceratops.
I think Triceratops maybe tastes better
because they have more bumpy stuff
so it's going to be crispier.
Like in real life T-Rex
tastes better, - Would taste better.
- 'cause it's more like chicken.
Triceratops look like a rhino,
and rhino doesn't look like delicious.
All right so they are looking like dinosaur.
And I'm going to finish with egg wash.
Egg wash makes finished product shinier.
So whenever you make pie
you want to use egg wash or heavy cream
so it will have nice shine.
Okay so I'm going to make more,
once you finish everything you're going to bake at 400
for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
All right so my Dino hand pies looks great
and I'm going to make it more fun.
I have like various kind of vegetables.
Let's do with broccoli.
Kind of want to make it look like Jurassic era.
- [Producer] This kind of has some "I Draw, You Cook" vibes.
- Yes. I miss that show. (laughs)
I remember James of the "I Draw, You Cook".
Don't you ever forget.
I have a nice carrot tops so I'm going to utilize that.
I think if I put some carrot top
it would look like a volcano.
At that time, there was some volcano right?
- (laughs) Yeah. - According to
some like cartoons and illustration based on nothing.
And I have some radish, kind of look like little mountain.
Look like a little island.
And I'm going to put some dinosaur.
It's like all freestyle so bear with me.
(laughs) He fell.
I'm going to give him a little bit surgery
So he can stand.
(laughs) Pedicure. How about that?
Does it looks good? (laughs) It's cute.
And we are done.
(relaxing orchestral music)
Dino hand pies. Let's see what Aria thinks.
(upbeat whistling tune)
Aria!
- (screams) It's Rie.
I'm actually a little, a little emotional seeing you.
It's been a while. - Me too!
- So much time has passed by that you've had a baby.
- And you have a man.
- I want to be called Uncle Aria.
- Okay.
- Children usually hate me.
This thing has been delivered to me, it's very covertly.
It's wrapped up.
I'm very, very, very excited.
- Do you want to open it up?
(plastic crinkling)
- What is this? What is this magic?
You made them look like dinosaurs?
- Look.
- You could show that an art exhibition.
So this is a T-Rex.
- Yes!
- Let's see, a Triceratops.
- Yes - Yes, yes, yes, yes.
And so T-Rex is like right?
- Yes. They have tiny arms.
- They wouldn't be very good cooks.
- If you were a dinosaur, what dinosaur are you?
- I would love to be, I love a Velociraptor.
You know, when it's like (hisses).
- How does he sound?
- I think a Velociraptor goes like (chirps and hisses).
(Rie laughing)
- Do you have a favorite dinosaur?
- I like Petra.
- Petra the Pterodactyl! Oh, you're a Dino nugget fan.
I like Herbie.
Thank you so much Rie.
- Cheers! - Cheers!
- Mm.
- I need a moment.
(Rie laughs)
(hand clapping) Yes!
(Rie laughing)
This is delectable.
This is like a chicken pot pie.
- Mmhm.
The fact that you made it the shape of a dinosaur too.
I mean that, it makes it fancy.
This is fantastic.
- Thank you.
We have one thing.
- Oh yes! (laughs) I forgot.
I forgot we do that, oh my gosh.
- Three, two, one.
Make it fancy! - Make it fancy!
(Rie and Aria scream)
(upbeat jazz music)