- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone
and in today's video I'm gonna show you
how to make a delicious persimmon,
pomegranate, and quinoa salad.
I'm gonna go over what's the fuss
about quinoa anyway.
Plus, also, which kind of persimmons
should you be eating?
It's a really simple salad.
It just screams fall.
I think you'll really love it.
So let's get to making it.
(upbeat music) So the first thing we're gonna do
is roast our pecans at 350 degrees
for about 5-10 minutes.
Just until they're nice and toasted.
Okay, those are looking good.
Let them cool now.
Okay, so we have our arugula.
I'm gonna add our olive oil to it.
Add some balsamic vinegar.
Some salt. Some cracked pepper.
Add in our toasted pecans,
now that they've cooled.
Add our pomegranate seeds in.
Add our cooked quinoa.
So quinoa, there's a lot of fuss about it.
It's like this hip fad right now.
It's been that way for a few years.
But actually, quinoa's hella legit people.
Quinoa is super high in protein.
And it's one of the only plant based proteins
that has all of the amino acids
that our bodies can't make.
So that makes it super tasty,
super good for you,
and you should be eating it.
Let me show you why.
Add in our persimmons.
Okay, so in this recipe I'm using Fuyu persimmons.
There's basically two types of persimmons
that are grown commercially here in the US.
You have Fuyu and Hachiya.
Fuyu persimmons, you can just eat them like an apple.
Cut off the stem part, just dig right in.
Hachiyas, you definitely do not wanna do that.
In fact, if you've ever bitten into a Hachiya,
you'd know exactly why.
It has this, it has an ingredient in it
that just makes it,
it feels like pins and needles in your mouth.
It's just really unpleasant.
It's best for baking.
If you have a Hachiya persimmon
what you wanna do is you just wanna
let it get really, really overripe,
to the point where it's almost like a sack of jello.
Like it's not something you wanna bite into.
So that's the difference between those two.
Now I'm just gonna mix this together.
The reason I'm doing this before I add in the beets
is because the beets are gonna get everything red.
So I just wanna just not mix those
too much once they're added in.
So get all these ingredients worked in.
Such a colorful salad, right?
Orange and red from the persimmon
and the pomegranate.
Now in with our beets.
Here's a little fun fact about beets.
They were actually nature's first Viagra.
The Romans actually believed that
beets were an aphrodisiac
and they used them in that way.
And they might have actually been right.
Because beets are really high in Boron.
And Boron is what's used to help
produce the human sex hormone.
So hey, there you go.
Eat some beets, get horny.
It's all good.
And just lightly toss it.
And it's ready to serve.
So now you have a lovely beet persimmon salad.
It just screams fall produce.
It's just wonderful to look at.
It's super tasty, easy to make,
high in protein from that quinoa.
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