- Hi, I'm Rie.
I'm with Tasty Producer.
Today I've been challenged to take a common food
and make it fancy.
The rules are,
you must completely use the food given.
I hope you guys give me something good.
You can only add to the food.
You can buy whatever ingredients you wish.
Once you begin cooking,
you must complete upgraded dish in 30 minutes.
Let's see what I have to make fancy this time.
Drum roll (laughing) I don't know.
Box mac and cheese.
Actually, I've never had boxed mac and cheese before.
- [Group] What?
- In order to make it fancy, I have to try it first.
Can somebody make it for me?
And can I try this?
It's very suspiciously yellow.
Let me taste it.
(playful music)
I have to chew. (laughing)
It's good, but I wanna make it better.
Has turmeric.
Turmeric is very fancy ingredient,
so I'm gonna just make it and call it fancy.
(man laughing)
Bye. (laughing)
All right, here's what I got.
Panko, thyme, parsley, shallot, garlic, and lobsters.
And also things from pantry,
milk, sherry, vegetable broth, butter,
tomato paste, and flour, (claps) let's get started.
Woo!
Make it fancy.
So, I set up my station.
In order to make everything go smoothly,
I set up three stoves, 30 minutes start now.
First thing I'm gonna do, I'm gonna start boiling water.
I'm going to make Bechamel, which is white sauce.
It's one of a mother sauce in French cuisine.
Two tablespoon of butter, heat up two cups of milk.
I'm going to cut garlic.
It's a two tablespoon of flour.
So you have to make sure it's low heat
so flour is absorbing all the fat.
Then you are going to add heated milk.
When I tasted mac and cheese,
it was very strong flavors so I kinda want to neutralize it.
Usually you don't add garlic for classic Bechamel,
but I think it's gonna be a good kick
to the thing I'm making (laughing) right now.
Meanwhile, I'm gonna toast some Panko and I'm adding thyme.
So when I was eating the box mac and cheese,
it was just like same texture over and over.
I wanted to make something crunchy on top.
So Bechamel looks good.
You can test with spatula.
Just run your finger and this is done.
So I'm toasting Panko.
It's getting nice color.
So I think it's ready.
I'm gonna set it aside.
I almost have 20 minutes which is great.
But I'm nervous cause I'm talking and cooking
at the same time so like I'm gonna just keep doing my stuff.
I got lobster.
So lobster is not as expensive as I thought.
We found as cheap as $4.00 per lobster tail,
but it's still fancy, right?
I choose lobster because it cooks quickly.
So I'm going to put in hot water.
As soon as they change color, I'm gonna take it out
which is two to three minutes.
So lobster is cooked, I almost have 16 minutes left.
I think I can make it within 30 minutes, but I'm not sure.
I'm going to cut shallot while lobster is cooling down.
- [Producer] What's the difference between
a shallot and an onion?
- Shallot it's milder than onions
so it doesn't have a sharp flavor.
So I'm just winging it.
I'm making sauce American,
but I'm just like doing some shortcut.
I'm going to de-shell, wait, scissors.
So you're kind of inserting scissors inside of the shell,
break with your hand.
It's a little bit sharp, so you can use towel like that.
Oil.
I'm going to add shallot.
(sizzling)
And I just decided to use the water
that I boiled the lobster because it smelled so good.
And lobster shell goes in.
It will give a good flavor.
We are going to add tomato paste.
It's gonna be the fun part.
I'm going to flambe.
Flambe, it's not scary at all,
just make sure nothing got around it, flammable.
So I'm raising the temperature of the heat.
Sherry in that.
(sizzling)
Flambe, fancy.
The reason we are flambe is just remove this alcohol flavor.
If you don't want to do flambe,
that's totally fine, just high heat,
bring it to a boil, so alcohol evaporates.
I just used sherry, but if you don't have sherry,
you can use brandy.
I'm just winging it.
So like I'm gonna just add veggie broth
probably like a half cup
and then I'm going to cook macaroni in it.
Wait.
- [Man] Where is it?
- Where is it? (laughing)
So the package said it cooks seven to eight minute
and I'm gonna just do four minute and see the texture
'cause I don't want to overcook it.
I'm gonna add more veggie broth 'cause
it's already cooking a little.
Make sure this is a little loose.
While it's going, I'm going to chop lobster.
Just like bite size.
Let's check the tenderness of the macaroni.
I'm gonna stop cooking 'cause it's al dente.
It's a little hard right now and Bechamel is heating up
so I'm going to add cheese packet.
Wow, it's very yellow.
Powdered cheese is a little weird,
but it's dissolving very well.
I'm going to take off shell which is super easy
'cause like this shell is big.
I'm going to add this thing here.
Let me check the flavor.
It's very nice.
Little bit nervous about time because I've
never made a boxed mac and cheese before.
- What?!
Oh my god, it's like one of my favorite foods.
(laughing)
When I was in college, I used to make it when I was drunk
and eat it on the couch out of the pot.
(laughing)
Still do it, actually, nothing's changed.
- Okay, I'm gonna keep going 'cause it's cooking.
Oh, it's heavy. (laughing)
Just sprinkle some lobster on top.
Put some Panko on top and I'm gonna just bake in an oven,
just refresh it because everything is cooked.
I have two minutes left and I'm gonna just cook it
until timer goes off.
And maybe I'm gonna chop some parsley, you know?
Like I have two minutes, let's do that.
So I have five seconds left so I'm gonna just
sprinkle parsley and we are done.
I made it in 30 minutes.
It was like a sprint.
I'm gonna try this and I have a feeling
it's gonna be very decadent and rich and delicious.
Nice lobster chunk.
Mm.
Mmhmm.
I make lobster mac and cheese.
- Mm. - Do you want to try?
- I do.
- But here's the thing.
- What?
- You have to do a dance.
- No. (laughing)
No, I don't.
- Make it fancy. (laughing)
Just do it.
- All right, if I like it, I'll dance.
How about that?
- Okay, that's good.
- You know, just like when you're adventuring around Italy
and you see that couple getting a nice plate of something.
You ask the waiter, I'll have what they're having.
This is like the thing that they're having
that you're like, let me get some too.
- Did I make it fancy?
- Girl, you know you made it fancy.
- [Together] Make it fancy.
- Here I go.
Okay.
- So here's my favorite Tasty Producer.
- No, your favorite friend. - Alice.
Okay. (laughing)
- Wow, you made boxed mac and cheese fancy.
- So you know how we do.
- [Together] Make it fancy.
- You're going for seconds.
(quietly chuckling)
Thirds.
- Make it fancy. (cheering)
(giggling)
- (clapping) Yes!
Seems like everyone loved it.
I totally encourage you to make it at home.
If you make it, tag me on Instagram,
show me your dish and show me your dance, make it fancy.
- This dish deserves its own song.
- What kind of song?
♪ Lobster ♪
♪ Mac and cheese ♪
- Look at Ali trying to be Beyonce and Rie.
Girl, get out of here. (laughing)
(playful music) (whistling)