Yan Can Cook; 303; Light and Healthy

- Transcript
Oh. The A. Ha it is mounting in the healthiest coke in the world. I stay fit the old fashioned way. I joke around the kitchen while I prepare like unhealthy dishes like Wellwood cone soup water cress and oranges salad tofu with minced Turkey poach fish filet with soya dressing and for this one we have chocolate tofu ice cream. So join me and won't go away to health in two days you can cook. Yan Can Cook is made possible by makers of circular guaranteed nonstick cookware for the home chefs. And makers of Oriental sauces. Over 350 years to all. And
by the 500 families of the rice growers association of California available in resealable bag. Thanks thanks. Thanks thanks. Thanks to. God. I am gonna kick your. Ass me. MARTIN You love to cook and you love to eat. But how do you stay so slim. Because I eat right. And. Exercise. You see I specially designed my kitchen this way. I put my oven on one in and then 200 yards away. I put my refrigerator this way every day. I joke around.
This way I burn up enough Carrie so I can eat anything I want. So right now since I don't have so many carry now I am ready to go so we can all eat. Are you ready. Thank you thank you. Yes I want to show you is very very simple is where little corn soup or house is this. Here is a possibly one can of cream of corn you can make use of fresh corn. OK here I also have approximately half a pound the core of a pound. You can use anywhere from a quarter pound to one pound to have a panic because of how much this is shrimp. I use about half a pound. And also I have some one the full ham you can use a small Pim and here I have some chopped water chestnut. I want to quickly in the meantime I want to get ready my broth.
OK. I need about six cups of broth and I cut this up into long strips like this because I want to save time by Put them all together. And. Cut it up into chunks like this. This is also very good aside from talking this great exercise of her now Carrie. This is 17000 carry already burn up more carry being thrown up. You see you do it will read them you don't do it like this if you want. To go not Kerry you go. If you don't want to care about burning up here you go. See that and then when he's done I put this over here in the broth OK and then also I stir in my cream of corn. OK one the whole don't want to waste any. OK stood just a little bit and then I also want to put some water chestnut scoop this water chop all the chairs and use fresh
water chestnut or you can use Kenmore chestnut and then for the prawn I am going to also cut this up a little bit. Now you see how you do it one by one if you have time. You don't have time to do it. Thank you thank you. Thank you for going on. I wonder. Why in China most of China's Coke are so slim I want to tell you the truth because the way you prepare food in China most of China's Coke a lot slimmer than just the size instructor. Make sure you turn them around and mix well. Otherwise you're going to end up having a gigantic serene ball. OK. And then we're going to season this with our saw this about how the teams want to solve having a white pepper sprinkle this right here and then how about something we.
Didn't notice I had a time but I want more no more Carol you should do everything at the last minute. And then you put it over here. Green onion. Then when it's all nice and then bring it to a boil. OK when it's nice and done what are you going to do. All you have to do is put approximately 1 tablespoon of soy sauce the good the touch of nice golden brown color. Okay and then last minute put a tiny bit of sesame seed oil while located this beautiful nice and wonderful when it's done. All you have to do is shut it off and then take it over here and you one this is the last touch it that it why make an egg. Why Flower Drum if it is producing dribble in and then you stir this and stirred this NG and this is what you call well would cone soup and lie. What is written. Thank you.
Thank you thank you. We are going to serve these wonderful the good thing about this is this is not very very thrilling yet it is very hearty. OK. It is perfect for those who want to eat like fill you up but not with Kerry or cholesterol. See how wonderful. And then the good thing about this is you can eat the darn thing with a spoon or fork for me. I am going to use my chop stick. Wonderful. This is all done. It's beautiful very light very easy. Everybody can do. Now let me remove all of these because I'm going to do something here everybody would like. Here I am going to do a piece called War of course and orange apple sour this sell it for us. I have to bunch of this water Quest. You can use spinach you can use lettuce. It doesn't make any difference. I think in my
opinion only the best idea come out of China is of course gunpowder and a lot of things but yet the only good idea that being come out of China is sour. All it is is a cut up vegetable you toss them up. You make a mess. You get a fancy name salad. Can you imagine you called it. Chop Suey virtual. Now here. Is to punch already nice and Chayyim and already clean up OK. Nice water cress and then here I have a tiny tiny bit of a little piece of a nice orange. I cut it up 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 make sure it is nice and shop. Look at this it is not sharp enough. What happened. You're making orange juice you see. Put them all together you see how I
put them all together. I put one over here and I put one. Like to see and I slice it up if you want to make it fancy you can add a kind of a coma. OK we'll do this. I'm going to cut out a tiny piece of hay coma in a coma for. Truly unbiased. And also you can use. A tiny tiny bit of Johnny and some apple and pick out some apple in the supermarket. This particle is from New Zealand. Nice Some farm it got a very interesting texture crispy texture clean refreshing taste is where I go for this particular dish. I'm going to put this up OK and then I also make a tiny tiny bit of lemon sauce. You see very physical and put them all together and then sprinkled around. Then you're going to make a dressing. This dressing is very very good. Here. I have
oil about two to three tablespoon of oil vegetable oil orange juice on a tiny tiny bit of sesame seed oil and salt. One teaspoon of salt. I have a piece more sugar and a tiny bit off white pepper mix it out. Very This is another technique. Look I'm thrown out 16000 carry. I am burnt off. You see this way you can all put it over here. This is the dressing. Give them tomorrow it's a nice mixture to touch it off. This is how you do it. To pick basically sprinkle a tiny tiny bit of toast sesame seed and also some candied ginger. What do you think the other thing is light and healthy or what do.
You. Think you saw why. I eat the whole thing by myself. See I didn't gain any weight. It's wonderful it's lie and refreshing. Now I would like to also mention it to you in Chinese cuisine in Chinese culture a lot of Chinese people particularly my mother and my mother's grandmother they believe in Chinese herbs. And this is what you can find some of the Chinese herbs. Look at this. This is Bucky is in pools of blood circulation. It looks like this. Say and also improve your teeth 11 teeth this is good this is what they call Gates he does a little red berry repair is supposed to believe to improve your vision and also liver ability and also got a little sweet flavor you can put inside your stew. This is what they call nom home sweet Allman. Here we have rice son
this is actually a rule where uncut is a whole big root like this and looks like a piece of chalk. And what it is is it's good for your kidney and your lung. And here are also good for him to just hear this is donghae is good for ladies. Female Elman and also in China a lot of women after they give birth to a child they will put this in chicken supposed to be good for the ladies. I have never tried it myself so I don't know how good it is and this is going to join it just like a bock. You see this this is what it is is twists backache and hypertension. And here was this GI medicinal wonderful experience expensive mushroom. This little piece cost me about 16 bucks. And when I won it rings This is my little umbrella. It. Is very is very firm very heart. Now this is Jensen and this is what they call Buddhist food.
See this is supposed to be good for two more. And also very very good for clams and this little seahorse. And this is a little what they called cha. It is for him to gesture and I went yesterday I went to our herbalists store look it is this is my prescription is it is this my prescription. All kinds of things and this is what it is all kind of stuff that I got from Chinese pharmacists. They have to learn how to identify thousands and thousands of these herbs. And here is learn ta. One of the most popular. That's like the Chinese. Ahead of you good for fever headache indigestion if you ran out of it all you have to do go to your paper and get a piece of wood like this and put them all together. You have learned very easy to do and I am going to also show you some of this is so expensive you have to use this scale to do it. Look at this. This is though don't see this. This is Chinese scale stay put. And then
I'm going to keep it all for myself. This is all you know. Remove these. Put it over here. And then this way we can continue to do our next dish which is tofu with mince Turkey all I have is approximately half a pound of turkey. OK. You can use chicken if you want. All you'll need is about 80 pounds. Take Imus's also in the meantime also want to heat up my wall because you always want to make sure the world is hot you know and I want to show you how easy it is to mince the turkey turkey is good because very little said is cut into and strips like this see this and then if you cut into little chunks like this you see and then you use one knife. If you only have one night but I happen to have two knife so I used to live. Do you have time you can have some fun.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. See how easy. Not only you have to accomplish your mission. Not only did you have burnout and other forty five hundred calories. Now then you marinate this without trying to dry sherry and out of the soy sauce. Now if you're concerned about sodium intake you can use a tiny kind of reduced sodium source sauce which is only about half as much. OK but it's kind of a sore source here and then you are ready to cook here. I'm going to add when the work is hard enough upon a bit of just vegetable oil move them around and also get ready a tiny tiny bit. Also Ginger to me is being a jerk to. You.
Look at this rule will serve a five star particle that is how they go this is very very easy to do. Not a lot of people don't know how you know that Whole Foods This is totally OK on the North Pole think it is kosher. It's not as non dairy. So let me show you how to make something exciting and also an out of the secret turkey on really tiny and China. We don't go around calling one another turkey. Then when it's done you'll put this old fool. How many of you know that nowadays you can actually buy cold food in a package that you don't have to look into rated a lot for six to eight months and then if you want to give some color or you have to do is cut out some of these and you go.
Put them however off the rail rail. You know if you have you'll have green felt peppered or you can have red felt peppered horse horse foot are all wrong. Look at this and also Paul you see saws. Make sure the gives you nice touch in the final minutes. Let's make sure there's a nice and wonderful and you said how do you want to serve this. Of course serve these also rise. And if you want I also want to show you how quickly how easy it is to make a little simple garnish before you do that. Now a simple garnishing is very very easy to do. Look at this this is a little piece of carrot. OK all you have to do is cut it up like does this a garnishing tool.
Look at this. Isn't that an easy and wonderful. Isn't it cool. Then you put it right over here and you only have time to do one. You only do one. Thank you thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you thank you. It's great for light and healthy diet. So I went to the fish market earlier. So let's take a look. Bring it back to my second home our fish market. When I was growing up my mother always served freshwater fish. Among the more popular first water fish is of course fish. Look at this this is a risk not come through later still issues. Not much to blame. And here we have a black fish. Look at this my eyes are shining clear on. Not cloudy. In here of course. We have my good friend but come look at this. Let me. Be. Very well of course the most
important thing is look at the eye which is nice and shiny and clear. In your pocket and make sure it's. Bouncy springy. And once again you'll hear all of this in my eyes. That means. This. Is very very fresh. Last. Last tips. To make sure it doesn't have the fishy smell. This is very fresh because this doesn't smell like a fish it's not a species. So we want to show you how to do some fresh water first today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you know. Thank you. Nice and fresh. I always always refuse to eat fish unless it is nice and fresh. The next one will show you how to do is another like unhealthy dish posed fish truly with our soy sauce dressing very very simple
here. I have approximately one pound of fish truly we don't even have to worry about scaling. Everything is already done. I'm going to poach it. OK first of all I'm a little put off field pieces of ginger and then one little piece of green onion and then I put the wine in here a lot of people feel intimidated when they prepare fish. That's right they only stick with fish a stick and I don't care for fish on a stick. So I'll show you. That's why I say it is a potent ritual if you don't post the whole thing. It doesn't make any difference. Now why I'm poaching this I'm going to also give you a little coaching on poaching. Patients rule number one if you're doing a lot you might want to cover up if you cover up make sure you don't lift the lid up every 30 seconds otherwise you'll be poaching for tool. Yes. So I am pointing that I'm going to also show you how easy it is to make this dressing.
This is going to be about two tables blown off shelves and about one to two teaspoon of sesame seed oil and also about two three tables one of soya sauce. OK one and a half to two and how. Exactly. Three tablespoons and then you mix this up. Very very easy. Look at this low get this. All of these are great exercise. We carry. You can get totally exhausted. Set it aside and to make it fancy we are going to do some simple. I'm going to set this aside. Because I don't need this anymore. How easy it is to Julian. Green onion one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14. This is how you Julian look at this. You see this.
Set it aside. Because want to use it on the dish. Now the next thing I want to show you says I have some time because I am poaching my fish. A lot of people they might want to partake of the outdoor type. You might want to forget about the fish fillet. You might want to go and do your whole fish. But if you are out of time and get the freshest so feel free to filet a fish. That's a hard one. Feel free to fillet fish. I have to go home and practice more time here. I'm going to show you something which is also you ask what do you want to do. I'm going to do chocolate tofu ice cream. They're very very light because tofu has very very low in calorie and also absolutely no cholesterol. OK here I am going to show you how easy it is to make it. I'm going to use one of these package of tofu which is about one pound nice and put it right over here put it tofu all right over here.
Make sure you have put in the right place otherwise it will make a mess. More what you saw is tofu. OK and then also saw an excess of some I melted sweet chocolate. Look it is all it is going to be wonderful chocolate tofu mizzen that look wonderful. OK this is semi sweet not the sweetest one is slightly melted. OK and then also used a kind with sugar sugar to your tastes don't add too much. If you're on a diet I am on a diet so this is all I had. You can use honey all sugar OK. I also use a tiny tiny bit of sugar and honey for salt. Not much Court of Appeals will solve and also the extra power I need tiny bit and then also put a tiny bit of milk if you are diet conscious use. No milk. OK put it over here
and this is all I need. OK and then we're going to make this into a puree. God. Holds holds on to this. You want to put in your eye sling machine. Then you can make it. Right. Oh I am doing such a wonderful job I'm smokin my kitchen. That's exciting. That's also exercise. Want to smoke. Or on top of. Everything you do when it's done. You set everything aside and put a tiny tiny little oil if you want use only that oil gives a nice smooth texture. OK one more time. Was this one of the wonderful. When is done when the fish is done we are going to show you how wonderful it is to remove these.
Let's do this. This is fish already poach. I put it right over here. Look at this beautiful. And then put another one. I'm hearing are some oil over here told. Very very hot. And then I put a tiny time or listen to this spring called a tiny bit of green onion hot oil. Whoa. This is just a tiny bit. And then also put the soya dressing right over here. You have a very nice poach fish. And in the meantime. Thank you. Thank you. Look at this. And make some extra of this ice cream earlier. Look at this. I put in the freezer in the machine. I'm going to scoop this out.
I love this. Since I'm doing so much exercise today actually I can have done post-school. I love it. What the heck this is wonderful. I have a double scoop here. What I have show you today is tofu talk and ice cream. Poach you laid one last word on health and fitness. For those of you who don't like to joke I have a perfect solution. Walk Don't Run. Thank you. Thanks call the toll free number on your screen to order your copy of Martin Yan's cook book A Walk for all seasons with 192 pages and color photographs. The book contains all the recipes prepared
in the series create delicious Chinese cuisine in your own home with easy to follow recipes. Just wild 95 plus handling call 1 800 4 4 1 3000. And please have your credit card ready. That's 1 800 4 for one three thousand for a walk for all seasons. Yan Can Cook is made possible by Kiko match makers of Oriental sauces and seasonings for over 350 years. Add the key command types to all of your cookie. And buy the 500 families of the rice growers association of California growers of you know the rice available in resealable bags. And by the cooks Ware makers a circular guaranteed nonstick cookware circular For me cooking for the home chefs. Thank you. Thank you.
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- Series
- Yan Can Cook
- Episode Number
- 303
- Episode
- Light and Healthy
- Contributing Organization
- KQED (San Francisco, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/55-2908mj3n
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- Description
- Series Description
- Yan Can Cook is an instructional cooking show hosted by chef Martin Yan and focusing on the preparation of Chinese cuisine.
- Description
- Velvet corn soup; poached fish fillet; chocolate tofu ice cream.
- Broadcast Date
- 1988-06-02
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Instructional
- Topics
- Food and Cooking
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:29:14
- Credits
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Content creator: KQED
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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KQED
Identifier: 2561;23079 (KQED AAP)
Format: U-matic
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:30:00
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- Chicago: “Yan Can Cook; 303; Light and Healthy,” 1988-06-02, KQED, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 6, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-55-2908mj3n.
- MLA: “Yan Can Cook; 303; Light and Healthy.” 1988-06-02. KQED, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 6, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-55-2908mj3n>.
- APA: Yan Can Cook; 303; Light and Healthy. Boston, MA: KQED, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-55-2908mj3n