Today, I show you why roasted vegetables at a restaurant are so good and how you can replicate them at home.
Inspired from @internetshaquille ‘s vid ➡️
Why are Restaurant Burritos Better than Homemade?: https://youtu.be/osv72OeCpR0
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Roasted Carrots w/ Rosemary – https://www.ethanchlebowski.com/cooking-techniques-recipes/rosemary-roasted-carrots
Cheesy & Garlicky Roasted Broccoli – https://www.ethanchlebowski.com/cooking-techniques-recipes/cheesy-amp-garlicky-roasted-broccoli
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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:28 Restaurant vs Home Cook
1:32 1. Salt is the seasoning, not herbs or spices
4:40 2. Use fats, thoughtfully
6:56 3. Embrace high heat (+ convection)
8:12 4. Give the vegetables space and time
9:21 5. Try parboiling
10:30 6. Frozen vegetables are your friend
11:41 7. Add flavor enhancers after roasting
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Filmed on: Sony a6600 & Sony A7C
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30 Comments
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I always boil my brussels, bash them a few times till they aren't round, but aren't mush, then fry them till brown in the same pot with some butter and olive oil, salt after. Always tender and delicious. You have to watch them close and turn them on time but they come out great.
Really enjoying all of these videos especially seeing if the really expensive ingredients are WORTH it. great stuff!
Here's a like and a comment for having a proper knife grip.
So to me, because I barely use salt, I honestly think potatoes with herbs taste much better than salted potatoes.
Sorry to disagree.
Hold on, if you're not using fat to cook your vegetables and not seasoning them then you are fundamentally failing at being a cook. These things are not extra they are necessary to basic preparing of vegetables (ofc excluding boiling or other shit)
My mother used butter! When dinner was served, there was a pat of butter on almost everything. She fried things in butter, never oil. In fact I didn't even know that people used olive oil to cook with until I was out on my own. She died at 93.
Butter. Its not only in vegetables, its on all dishes restaurants prepare. And theres nothing you can do about it.
I disagree with reducing my vegetables to embers 😩
Yeah I don't know, I don't like eating restaurant vegetables because they usually not all the time but usually taste like green garbage whereas the veggies I cook for myself at home are always on the money
also 'if cooking curry, chilli, or other spicy food, add more spice'. It's amazing the amount of people who cook completely bland curried veg dishes because they somehow forgot that chillis were one of the vegetables in the dish.
MSG is the King.
Restaurant vegetables are terrible They're undercooked and usually inedible
because of the pi
That's a hell of a mustache, sir. Are you in any Westerns as the tough but fair sheriff?
Oooo old video but how about roasting frozen veggies in the best way?
I’ve been using Tip #6 for about a year now. And I try to share it with as many people as I can. Super easy, fast, and inexpensive. My fave is Birdseye broccoli/carrot/cauliflower.
I don’t think so
I realized that nowadays, people really tend to overdiabolize the usage of salt. I don't know if it's because of how medias often accuse companies of using too much salt, or the mention of "made with less salt" written everywhere on product packaching, but each time I use the correct amount of salt (like for instance the golden rule of 10g salt / 100 gr pasta / 1 liter of water), people almost scream as if I was going to make them get cardiac arrest. I was pretty proud to be able to show them that I was actually quite gentle with the salt usage as my blood test result showed that I actually need to salt my meals a bit more xD.
Fat is the same, 'tho it's usually more common to see people using way too much fat that not enough.
I didn't know that parboiling was the English term, in french we say "to whitten" vegetables xD. Good to know when I'm looking up English recipee.
And yes, Frozen veggies *ARE* good. It's actually been proven than more often than not (heavily depends on where you live 'tho, and if you have easy access to actually fresh veggies), frozen veggies are healthier than what you can buy in most supermarket or even some dubious street market, for the very simple reason that frozen veggies retain 99% of their benefits value as they're frozen almost right after they've been harvested, compared to veggies that have been harvested and left in stores for days before finally arriving on your plate.
Making space for the veggies is the thing I never bothered and never cared about, so seeing how it seems to actually make some, I'll def' try to cook veggies in wider plates next time!
That goes with a lot of things bacon steaks etc
awesome tips.
This ‘shocking reveal’ is for people who don’t know how to cook. With exception of other cultures (oriental, Latin cuisine, Jamaican, etc) Home cooked American style veggies have always tasted better to me 99% of the time because my family raised me to use these otherworldly alchemical potions called ‘seasonings’ and ‘butter’ in our food.
When?
Most restaurants steam microwave their vegetables
Butter salt and booze
My sprouts look like the ones on the right and i only ever tried to cook them twice. i just cut them in half and put them in a pan with salt and oil.
boiling veg just rob it of all the nutriends and vitamines
Great video! I will take this into consideration, esp parboiling in salty water.
I have a personal mission to stop the influencer-style oiling and seasoning on the pan, as it definitely undermines full coverage. I feel like it majorly sets people up to fail.
My vegetables taste better than restaurant vegetables, so I'm skipping this video.
Nice bro bro. 🫡
Discover capsacin dissolves in oil the other day