Ninja Turtles. There we go.
I thought it was hereos. No.
Hey Guys, welcome back to Vagabrothers.
Today is a special episode because we are in the kitchen
at Tastemade Studios
with Donal Skehan. Hello.
Basically, today we are going to made a tasty recipe
that you can carry onto an airplane
and have a lovely little meal
at 30,000 feet.
The reason we're doing this is that a lot of airlines
are cutting costs by taking out your meals
from the flights. That's an important thing. It drives me crazy
when they do that. I know
It's happening all the time, even on really long flights.
So, what are we going to make today?
This is super easy and slightly healthy,
a pasta salad. It's full of flavor,
and it's a very simple one to make.
So, we're going to start off in a pan with some whole wheat pasta.
You need to cook up your pasta first.
I'm using whole wheat pasta because it's a little bit healthier.
Good, long sustained energy is always good.
This is going into a pot with some salted
water. We're going to cook this
just until it's al dente.
But before it's finished cooking, we're going to get in there
with broccoli. Same bowl.
Same pan cooking. The other ingredients we have
are some feta cheese. We've got the broccoli.
I've got some nuts toasting up here, as well.
And almonds, yes. Lovely almonds
You can use any nuts you like in here. It's a pasta salad,
so you've kind of have a bit of freedom. You've got
a lot to play with. We also have some
sun-dried tomatoes, which just
are like little flavor bombs.
Don't mention bombs, though. Never, no, no.
Is this going to eliminate the dreaded airplane fart?
I haven't had
the dreaded airplane fart. Liar, liar.
We are not doctors, but we would say,
we have read that carbohydrates like
in pasta do help with
jet lag because it helps you secrete
insulin. Secrete? Secrete.
Just don't secrete on the person next to you.
But it will start the flow,
the insulin flow of blood, and that helps with jet lag,
supposedly.
Secretions aside, what's happening
with the recipe? You put the pasta in.
Secretions aside, our pasta is
cooking up beautifully, and
at this point when it is just at the al dente stage,
we're going to go in there with our
broccoli. And you do need to make sure you've
salted your water, as well. This is only going to
need to blanche for about 2-3 minutes, just until the broccoli
is a little bit tender and
then your pasta is cooked.
This is looking really nice at this point, so I'm going to
transfer this egg out. We have a big
big bowl here, and we're just going to
slide it out
And what I'm going to do is get you to start crumbling
up that feta cheese. This is my favorite job.
You don't have to use feta. You can use a whole host of different things.
But I just like the bit of chunky
sort of salty. I would add the good thing
about this is that it's salty. When you're flying
in that cabin pressure,
supposedly you cannot taste
so much sweet and saltiness.
Add a little more spice, add some
extra salt, and that will help the flavor.
We have our pasta. We have our broccoli.
Get in there with the feta cheese.
We're also going to go in there with some roasted, toasted
almonds. We've just put these in a skillet pan,
and we've fried them off.
You actually don't need any oil in here because
the nuts are quite oily themselves.
We're getting that straight in there, and
it's starting to build
a salad that has lots of dimension to it.
You've got the saltiness of the feta;
you've got the crunchiness of the almonds; you've got
that lovely texture with the pasta.
Good things are happening. Now you've got dirty hands.
He's got feta fingers.
He's got feta fingers. I love it.
I'm going to have you dress that with about 3 tablespoons,
and you can do this by eyeball.
So we've got a nice mixture going on here,
but it's all about the extra flavor
you add in here. So I have these
sun-dried tomatoes, and these are my secret
ingredients. We're going to take these and add some oil
and put them straight out onto our chopping board
and give these a good chop up.
Get that straight in there. Let's do that.
Nice. Those guys go in there.
Beautifully done.
We're going to just do a last seasoning
in there. Your feta is quite salty so you don't
need to add too much extra salt. Hit it
with some black pepper, a little bit of bite and a bit of spice.
And then just for acidity
and normally when you're making a salad dressing
or a salad anyway, you're talking about 3
parts olive oil to 1 part acidity.
We've got some cherry vinegar.
We're just going to add a little splash,
just a little splash here.
Then it's all ready for tossing.
I'm going to hand this over to you guys
because you look like you're experts at tossing the salad.
You don't want to toss that salad?
You went there. I went there.
Mark obviously has lots of
salad tossing skills.
Is this going to make the video?
Oh yeah. Fantastic!
This looks pretty good now. It does. I think we're ready to serve it.
Will we try some first?
Oh, we should.
This is the best part. It's actually formed this kind
of nice soft feta cheese,
and it's slightly melted. Go first.
You have the honors. Oh, thank you.
Make sure you get some of that sun-dried tomato.
Where is that tomato? Tomaaaaado?
How do you say broccoli? Broccoli?
That's the same.
Full mouths speak the same language.
There is no way
you're not going to be impressed if you have that
served on your airplane.
Better than Gate Gourmet.
All right
We're now going to serve this into the Tupperware.
It's the last little bit right here.
And any other small
snacks you bring with you alongside
something like this, what else would you have?
We're going to have these guys left over
for an appetizer.
An apple is a good call.
Definitely bring
a water bottle. We use
these big Nalgenes.
which are refillable hard plastic
water bottles.
You can empty it before you go through
security, and then fill it back up
before you get on the plane.
Sounds pretty good. There we are. Nice
Guys, we have all the food
in the Tupperware ready for the flight.
Thank you so much for coming over and showing us
this lovely recipe.
In the meantime, stay curious, keep exploring,
and we'll see you guys on the road.
And don't forget to check out the video over on Donal's channel
and subscribe to him as well. Right ,guys.
Peace
No Heroes. Turtles.
Turtle Power.