i made a lentil loaf for jenna

Well, welcome back to my kitchen, okay, currently it's vacation, it's vacation. Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas. I hope you're all currently in a really happy state, you know, maybe with good food or alcohol or both, maybe by the fire eating a bowl of cereal or a bowl of ice cream followed by a bowl of cereal or two bowls of cereal on top of your head with straws down, but then the cereal couldn't get through, so you're just drinking milk, never mind, scratch that during the holidays. and I wanted to do a sort of Christmas video for you today, this is actually going to be my last video of the year, so I'm excited to finish strong, try one more solid recipe before we call it a day and it's 2020 and the decade is over.

This is my last attempt at cooking well. Yeah, I never thought about doing something like this until someone special, Jenna, told me that she really wanted me to make her one. She has told me over and over again that a

lentil

loaf

or something like that. Some kind of meat

loaf

substitute is something she's wanted for a long time and hasn't really gotten, whether it's buying it to eat at a restaurant, whatever it is, she's wanted it for a long time, so I thought I'd last recipe was year, let's make this for Jenna, so I looked online and found a couple different recipes and I'm going to do what I do most of the time: I'm going to put together several different recipes. to make my own recipe, so I'm taking a little bit from one and a couple of methods and ingredients from another and we're going to make our own Aries recipe, our mess, so that's what we're going to do and In fact, I'm excited because Jenna has been raving about meatloaf and

lentil

loaf for so long that I mean it has to live up to the hype, well I hope it does anyway whether you want to make a loaf alongside me or you want to be a A little bit from the couch, join me on this journey to make a moccasin Jenna, so I took the time to break down and gather the ingredients that were going to need for this recipe and an attempt to make this a little less. from a show, you're going to need some pretty attractive ingredients for this recipe, namely these orange or I guess technically red lentils, I really like a nice look and beautiful lentils, you've got beautiful lentils, you've got that guy you're going to need. some spices, a little garlic, a little breadcrumbs, mushrooms and we will also need to chop some fresh vegetables, namely our bell pepper, yellow onion, carrots and celery, and I think this recipe is more or less simple, the first thing that What we will do is cook the lentils because the lentils that I have chosen these beautiful red lentils are raw do not spill a single lentil if you spill a lentil the recipes on top you cannot spill a lentil anyway you are going to have like a cup of lentils.

I'm thinking that one cup of raw lentils will be the perfect amount to produce between a cup and a half and two cups of cooked lentils, so you'll take a cup of raw lentils and add a little bit of water and we'll bring it to a boil and let them cook for a few 15 minutes, okay, so we're going to do it on the bottom here, so we're going to take our lentils, maybe a little bit, we're going to add a little bit of water and we're just going to let it come to a boil so that the lentils can cook when we need to combine all of our ingredients.

In the meantime, we're going to chop, so we'll need to dice all of these vegetables into two stems. celery two carrots about half a yellow onion and about three quarters of a bell pepper I think let's put this aside then and peel the carrot right there we go I think Jenna grew up eating meatloaf I think that was like something her family ate a lot and I think that's why she had that craving, whereas I, who like it, didn't eat meatloaf growing up. I don't think I even once, literally, don't remember eating meatloaf, I know. That's crazy because it's actually a hearty American dinner that families have, but yeah, I've never had bread, so I think based on the ingredients and the fact that you put ketchup on the table, I feel like it's going to have a flavor profile. similar to that of meat. cake, the Australian cake we

made

a couple of episodes ago just based on looking at the ingredients, but who knows if that's right anyway, we'll get them nice and fine.

You're going to spill a bunch of carrots all over the floor, okay. because we have little horses that can walk and eat, I recommend having little horses in your house that's why the challah lentils are boiling, but it's okay, I can lower the heat a little, I don't even know how to cook lentils. I didn't read the package, okay, I feel like we have a good amount of carrots. I'll leave these carrots on the ground for the horses, all the right size, and we were going to leave it in our vegetable bowl, oh, one more thing. which I forgot to mention that this is not going to be just a lentil and veggie loaf because I personally think that sounds a little bland, what we're going to do is part lentil and veggie loaf and part this because we're adding fake soil. beef that tastes so good you really can't go wrong with the flavor so we're going to do that so I would say if you're making this recipe or one of the recipes I've linked maybe just take out a little bit of the lentils and add, I don't know, maybe half a package of more and ground beef, okay, here we go one more time, we're going to dice them up and then get them a little bit extra fine, extra fine, you better wait. on hold, calm down, don't jump ahead.

I know you guys are getting anxious and want to move on to the next step, but just wait. Okay, I know what they're doing. Well, I heard you. This camera has a two-way microphone. I don't know how that works so you're going to take the cutting board and you're going to spin it on your finger ah it's like a basketball very easy happy holidays oh okay why am I like this? because I'm so? where actually? You need two bowls for the vegetables. Next we are going to chop this onion. How are we doing here? lots of babies, oh we need more water.

I think the Valente babies were thirsty, let's cut the ends, let's make our little super. fine dice method that I learned from The Legend of Gordon Ramsay, score it on the top and then score it down the middle twice, one like this, then when you chop it, it should come out like a chopped onion. You should not feed your little one. Horses will want to eat it because they like to hurt themselves, but don't let them not trust you. They might also open your pantry if you don't have it closed oh god it's getting emotional oh my god.

I'm crying, I just want to say thank you all for a great year. I mean I'm grateful for a great year but I'm not crying about it it's the onions I swear I feel like that would be a t-shirt like a touristy boardwalk now one of those cheesy t-shirt stores it's the onions I swear when hits your smart shirt and you're on vacation so we're going to take about one and a half of this pepper head style hot dog or lengthwise and then we're going to dice it okay this is actually a satisfying recipe for prepare because I don't know, I don't really cook.

I don't know, in general, a lot of vegetables. I probably cook a lot less than I should. Calm down tea boy, a lot of babies are getting a little wild around here, we're going to let this simmer for a while anyway. What I was saying is that I don't really eat enough vegetables or cook enough vegetables, but when I cook. I eat beautiful, really colorful vegetables, it's super satisfying for me to see the colors, I don't know, it's like when you eat skittles, except this rainbow you're trying is not the type of diabetes that dropped all these carrots, now it's hour. to sauté our vegetables, which includes our onion, bell pepper, celery, carrot, diced mushrooms and after a few minutes, garlic too, so let's sauté, you know, I sautéed it too, oh my goodness, I'm going to quickly chop these up. diced mushrooms because I didn't. do that still, you'll want to get these right too, but keep in mind that the mushrooms will shrink a lot.

Mushrooms are all about puffing up your chest and then if you put a little bit of heat on them, they will wrinkle the masculinity of the mushroom, oh my god, what? Am I even saying right now that we're going to pour some olive oil into the pan, let it heat up for a second and then we're going to add our onions, these are done, the mushrooms are done, let's add our vegetables now that we just had ? to get these nice and soft and cooked so let's go with the stir fry well this wouldn't be an Aries kitchen without a major audible and I'm calling a major audible right now this is what we're going to do well instead of oatmeal real.

I replaced this with oat flour and what it's going to do is we don't even have to use the food processor which I was planning on using and I didn't really feel like doing that because that's a mess and who wants to process the food all these beautiful ingredients like if we had already finely chopped everything. I feel like that would be a little excessive at this point. We're just finishing sautéing these vegetables. They are getting quite soft as it cooks. I prepared some of the ground beef further and we added a little bit of barbecue sauce to give it a little bit of flavor, so in a second we're going to put all the ingredients in this bowl and get our hands dirty and shape the bread that way .

I don't feel like we need to put anything in the food processor, so we'll use oat flour as a binder. We also have breadcrumbs. Oh, we should add the garlic. Now let's add the garlic and once the garlic is ready. In a couple of minutes we're going to add the rest of our ingredients and it's great, I've also

made

this glaze, I think that's what it's called, ketchup, barbecue sauce, balsamic vinegar and oh, it's conscious syrup, and this is what we're going to do. glaze. on top of the bread, so save it for later, so here we have our mixing bowl, we're going to add our vegetables, plus now we're going to add a little bit of flax flour, a little bit of parsley, salt and pepper, a little bit of breadcrumbs and a little oat flour.

We're going to start with a little bit, so tomato paste and a little bit of ketchup again we'll definitely measure everything very carefully. We're going to use our spoon here, spatula to get a module. It looks like it needs some flour, so I'm going to have some flour from Mauro. I would say add a little at a time without flour. This smells very good. The beauty of this recipe for me is that I literally have no good or bad expectations. I don't know how it will be. if it's even remotely decent come on be happy buddy I'll get up buddy also preheat your oven to 400 degrees do it now don't make it any faster any faster it looks like it needs a little more flour it's not like a batter yet, I think the only purpose of having the food processor in that recipe is to literally make oats and oat flour, in which case why don't we use oat flour?

So we don't need a food processor dog. I need it, this looks good again, if you're going to make this at home I recommend using a little more than ground beef just to add the meaty flavor that you're looking for with a bun and if you don't want that then listen up. I'm not going to yell at you I'm not going to make you just go to your room you're on timeout you're grounded go to your room go okay this seems to have a good consistency I kind of want to try a little bit oh that's it Well, why is it so good?

It's so delicious, oh my gosh, oh I don't even have the lentils, I'm dumb, okay, the lentils for our lentil bread, I actually don't know what the cause is. bread or it's like a fake meatloaf or both or it's a holiday bread or it's soft Oh, what's this guy's name? What do we call this? I'm happy with the consistency. This is largely the recipe. It says it was going to be a little doughy, but enough to mix it and then shape it into a loaf, but that's really tasty, I think it's going to be good, just add more salt, is it time?

It's this too, huh , believe. It's too hot to like mold, but maybe not, this is too hot, well, whatever, let's get our hands dirty, so they're going to shape this, I guess like an oval shape, dude, no I'm going to lie. it's really looking at the paper and it's a beautiful thing dude, okay, so once you're done admiring this monstrosity, we're going to take our polish, you're going to take a food brush or a regular paint brush, maybe try to get the paint off of it. First, we're going to easily and nicely glaze the top of our beautiful loaf, right?

I'm so excited right now. Hello, okay, we're almost done with the frosting process and then we're going to put it on. the oven for I think I like 15 20 minutes and then it will be ready, then we will also eat one thing that I haven't mentioned yet Jenna doesn't know I'm doing this, she asked me and asked me to make her a lentil bread and I decided to surprise her with it , so when I call her here to try it out I think her reaction will be the best part of the video because I know she'll be excited.

I think it's super adorable the way Jenna gets excited about her childhood favorite foods, she's like a little girl and hopefully we can make her nice and giddy anyway, here's our meatloaf, veggie loaf, Christmas bread, Christmas bread, soft, I don't know howyou want to call it, here's our bread, so we're going to put this in the oven for about 15 to 20 minutes. Let's dig in. okay, take out your forks, get off the couch, dinner will be served in 15 minutes, you better be at the table, tell us you're grounded, well, you're already grounded, please come to dinner, like this which has been there for about 35 minutes.

I think it's time we get it out of there, oh my gosh, look at this, it looks crazy, okay, it looks great, it looks like a meatloaf, right, no, your meatloaf. I don't know, I'm very excited. I think Jenna will be excited. I think it's time we call her here Jenna, it's time, yeah, oh I thought she never wanted to do a full length solo, I think that's my good, yeah, I know they're really good. I've been telling you that you've been. once you know I have a piece for you, okay, frosting, have you ever had one?

I have never eaten. I tell you like a little meat pie, true, yes, but it's not meant to be like I'll tell you what I used after you. Try it, it's very spicy mm-hmm, are you going to try yours? Yeah, no, mmm, well, happy, right, I've been telling you with some mashed potatoes and like the green beans are really good, it's like a little Normie meal that's a normal nose. you feel like a crazy man Norman yeah it makes me feel like I should be sitting in front of the TV watching TV and where the TV Dinner like this is the TV Dinner this is the TV Dinner but beyond me it's so good , but the lentils beyond the meat, the carrots, the celery, the onion, it's really good mm-hmm Julia it's like a perfect little meal like Christmas mm-hmm you make it again on Christmas day it's okay mm-hmm it was hard to make oh it was medium it was like you know I wasn't wrong you basically have to do it sauté the vegetables to soften them then combine them with all the sauces spices and oatmeal in a bowl with your hands and then you just shape it, but it asked me to use oats and put them in the food processor.

It was like no, I can just use oat flour and shape it with my hands and it worked, yeah, I mean, they want all the vegetables to be like dot and yeah, I mean, I don't find it at all like where you can. Look at the vegetables, I think they want it to be really low, you know what I mean, but this is something rustic and fun, rustic and it doesn't take away from any of the flavor. You are excited? Oh I'm so happy what's in the Grave, it's ketchup, balsamic vinegar, barbecue sauce and a little maple syrup, it's like your language, isn't it?

It's beautiful food, it's really nice. I was like the little kid my mom made meatloaf. I was excited because it was like she didn't really put ketchup on it. I think you've told me so many times that it sounds like the bomb from your childhood, but it tastes great, right? But it has the feel of a dinner party. Yes, this is really a dinner dish. true, very tasty mm-hmm really filling it's not as high as a hamburger or you know, I don't know it's a dish it's not just like a meal yes, it's very good sometimes, when you're vegan, you don't always have it as a dish, you know, it's like some mm-hmm meals and this was really like a meal like this, it's the kind of thing that if you go to a vegan restaurant, they would say here, it's not like some kale in a bowl, yeah, Yeah. yeah, it's um, it's a hearty meal, it's nice, well, Merry Christmas, I'm very happy, Julie, it's okay, honey, sweet, well, you asked me, many times you're glad you did it right, it's good, nor I'm not even kidding like I don't.

I guess I didn't like it that much, so I feel so good, so tasty, so comforting, so comforting mmm, no, I'm so tired, Sam, this is what I want for Christmas, well, it's Christmas, it was so nice you did something like that. I wanted to eat you Paul, anything, so did you tell me anytime? Show me something for you. Hey, I'm telling you mashed potatoes with this. A little sauce. Some green beans as crackers. Christmas. Well, this time it's missing. I'm going to feed this, but. this, but it's not food alone, I'm glad you like it, I love it, I definitely recommend making this if you feel like making some food, even if you never try to be in love or lentil bread or whatever, it's really good Like the flavors are mom, it's a really good winter food, it's a good winter food, you're cold and you're in your pajamas like me and you're just trying to relax, right? mm-hmm and it's finger food, anything with you I know your fingers, oh, I'm so kind.

I don't think you know how happy that meant to me. I did it because of that. Oh, anyway, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your vacation. Thanks for watching this video. and all the other videos I made this year, it's been an exciting year. Switching to cooking content has been a lot of fun for me, so I appreciate you watching and your support, and I hope you can get something out of this because Honestly, I think this is a fun recipe, not just hardy and wintery, but which is very fun, like a family Christmas recipe, so I want to cook with someone, give this one a try, but it's also very practical, yes, you can make one of these if you live alone.

You can eat it in small portions if you live with a couple of people who feed you a little. It's like a very practical meal, yeah, how bad is it for you, Julie? Because it tastes great, so we talk about that, not what. They are the macros like more carbs and protein but they are like 360 ​​calories per serving there are six sir thank you six servings per bread well I'm going to eat more than I should have this bread now and we're going to have some time you guys have a wonderful vacation you I'll see in a couple of weeks you can take a little time off for the holidays we'll be back in the new year with some new recipes to ruin it do it right 2020 the year we'll make it again Hindsight is 20/20 but so is the future because we will do it there, go well, goodbye