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Mexico has tortillas,
Venezuela has arepas.
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Check this out.
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Look at the steam. Look at the
crust. Oh man.
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Best bread in the world.
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And now, let's get started on
the dough.
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Take a look at this.
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This is pre-cooked white
corn flour.
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It's called harina pan
back at home.
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There's no substitute so you've
got to get this.
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It will change the way you bake.
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I like to keep it very simple,
so just water, salt,
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and harina pan. Masa.
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And, to form the arepas
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I just kind of pat them down a
little bit.
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It's almost like
English muffin size.
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A little bit of olive oil and a
super hot pan.
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And here we go. Oh yeah.
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Nice and round.
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Nice and thick.
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Just like this.
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Oh yeah.
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Here we go. Last one.
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I'm going to cover the rest with
this towel to keep them
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nice and moist.
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This is the crust I'm looking
for.
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Nice and toasty on the outside,
moist on the inside.
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These three are ready for the
oven.
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And we still have
three more to go.
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The reason I'm going to put them
in the oven is look at this,
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they're still gooey on the
inside, so they need more heat.
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Oh, they're ready. Look at that.
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I know when they're ready when
they sound hollow.
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And I'm going to prove that to
you.
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See how they're all done inside?
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That's what we're looking for.
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I told you, this is the best
bread in the world.
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You can have it with sancocho,
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with soups,
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you can have it as a side dish.
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With everything. It's good
stuff.
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So good.
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Nothing better than fresh baked
arepas straight out of the oven.
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Next, I'm going to make the
queen of the arepas,
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reina pepiada.
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Now, I'm going to make the queen
of the arepas, reina pepiada,
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which is our version of a
chicken salad sandwich.
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I'm joust going to boil some
chicken breasts in chicken stock
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'cause I want them really nice
and moist,
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but really juicy and tender.
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Here when you go to the super
market this is what you get
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a small hass avocado, but in
Venezuela,
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our avocados are massive.
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So big and huge that they break
the branches of the trees.
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And to take the pit out.
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That. Push the pit, twist and
it's gone.
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I like to criss-cross it inside
the skin
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'cause it just makes it so much
easier.
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Check it out, criss-cross on the
inside.
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Boom! See that? Easy.
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And now some lime juice, 'cause
you want a little bit of acidity
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in our salad.
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Oh yeah, that's good.
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And the lime will also stop it
from turning brown.
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Some green onions.
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Just a little bit of bite.
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Some chives.
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And now my favourite part, just
a little bit of cilantro
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and parsley.
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This guasacaca is so fresh,
it's unbelievable.
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You can also add a little bit of
onion.
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Red onions are good. White
onions are good as well.
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And now, I'm going to add some
aji dulce or sweet peppers.
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It's going to add some
crunchiness and some sweetness
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to my salad.
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Oh yeah.
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So, this salad is similar to a
guacamole.
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So, I'm going to add more
avocado
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to make it nice and creamy.
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See that? Nice and criss-cross.
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You can never have enough
avocado.
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It just makes it so creamy,
so delicious.
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Look at all the colours. Vibrant
green of the avocados
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contrasting with the red
peppers.
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I tell you, this is going to go
great with my chicken.
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Mm.
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Now the chicken's ready.
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It has soaked up all the juices
from the stock.
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I'm just going to set it aside,
let it cool off.
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It's going to be so juicy.
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So, reina pepiada takes its name
from a famous beauty queen
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called Susana Duijm.
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She won the Miss Universe
Pageant back in the 50s
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and this famous arepero in
Caracas
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wanted to name the sandwich
after her
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and now it's one of the most
famous arepas in Venezuela.
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Alright, we're ready to mix this
salad.
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Oh! The guasacaca with all the
flavours.
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Just going to put it in here
with the chicken.
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This would be a dish that we
would eat on arepas,
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we would eat when you're out,
like,
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partying, out with your friends
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in a night out in the city.
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Just ask for a good
(Speaking in Spanish),
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which is like a papaya juice.
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And reina pepiada is the perfect
cure when you just had
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a little bit too much fun.
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Now let's try it out.
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Mm.
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Mm. Brings me back home.
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I hope you make my arepas at
home
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'cause I'm pretty sure your
family is going to like them
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as much as mine.
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I'm going to show you two more
arepa recipes
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that are worthy of your next
dinner party.
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I'm working on an appetizer
that's going to blow
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your socks off.
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It's an arepa with shrimp.
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It's the perfect combination for
a warm, toasty,
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and steamy arepa.
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And it has a sofrito which is
just like a salsa,
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but a little bit better.
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So, in Venezuela, we would be
using a local hot pepper,
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but here, jalapenos
will do just fine.
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See that? You want to take those
seeds out. Control the heat.
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Going to mix it a little bit.
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Mm. Already smells great.
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Try a little bit. Perfect.
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We got an orange, think it's
going to go really well
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with our dish.
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So, in Mexico this would be
called a salsa,
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but in Venezuela, because we're
going to cook it,
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we like to call it a sofrito.
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So, here's a tip with garlic.
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The thinner you slice it,
the bigger the bite.
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I want my sofrito to have lots
of bite,
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so I'm going to cut it very,
very thinly.
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That's very thin. Lots of bite.
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You see this?
This is a 16 to 20 shrimp,
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which means there's about
between 16 and 20 of them
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per pound.
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Now I'm going to add some
garlic,
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some olive oil.
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(Sizzling)
Oh yeah.
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♪ Toujour amour ♪
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♪
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♪ (Man singing in Spanish) ♪
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♪ Toujour amour ♪
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Oh yeah.
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You just want to cook it until
the shrimp changes colour.
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I like my shrimp very tender.
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♪ Amour ♪
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So, this sofrito is just how I
like it.
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I left the little shrimp tails
in just for that bit
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of extra flavour.
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But, because they're going into
an arepa,
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I'm going to take them off.
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And I'm cutting it into bite
sizes 'cause I want
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small pieces in my arepa.
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For a little bit of extra
freshness,
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I'm going to add some cilantro.
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I didn't put the cilantro in
while I was cooking the sofrito
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because it just goes brown and
wilts
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and it looses all its oil.
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And then for an extra little
zing of acidity, some lemons.
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And now, my favourite part.
Let's put this puppy together.
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And, to top it all off, a little
bit of fresh cheese.
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I'm using mozzarella. You can
use anything you have at home.
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Mm.
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So messy, but really, really
good.
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Just like I'm in a beach in
Venezuela. Oh man.
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All of this really works
together.
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You can really feel the texture
of the shrimp,
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the sweet of the sofrito and the
acid of the citrus.
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Oh. It's just the perfect
combination.
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But, you know what really works
well together with an arepa?
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Carne machada, a slowly cooked
marinated steak.
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Mm. It's just going to blow your
mind.
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JUAN PABLO:
And now I'm going to make
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my favourite arepa filling,
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arepa pelua.
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Which is a sandwich piled high
with juicy,
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tender pulled beef
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and filled with heaps of cheddar
cheese.
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This is beef brisket.
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Traditionally we would use flank
steak,
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but I like to mix things up a
little bit.
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So, it's been marinating for a
couple hours in the fridge
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and I added Worcestershire
sauce,
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onions, some garlic,
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a little bit of vinegar, some
salt and pepper,
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and it's going to be so tender
and juicy
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once it comes out of the oven.
You won't even believe it.
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Now, I'm going to add a little
bit of water,
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just to cover the meat. And I'm
going to put some tin foil
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just to keep all those juices
nice and tender
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while it cooks in the oven.
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And now to kick off the sauce,
a little bit of tomato,
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onions, and red peppers.
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Now, some olive oil.
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The veg.
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(Sizzling)
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Ah! Can you hear it?
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Can you hear the sizzling?
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(Sizzling)
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And now, to bump up the flavours
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I'm going to add a little bit of
cumin,
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just to add a little bit of
earthiness to the sauce.
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Look at that meat, man.
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Look, it just flakes on its own.
It's nice and juicy,
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nice and tender.
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Check this out. Oh yeah.
See how it pulls?
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Look at this. Look at this.
This is what we want.
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It pulls very easily. Oh man.
Oh.
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Mm! So good!
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So, I'm not done cooking the
meat.
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I'm going to add it to the
vegetable that I had
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fried before, the sofrito.
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And remember the juices from the
marinade that were
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dripping in the oven?
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We're going to add some of that
as well.
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The beef is going to soak up all
of those flavours.
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For a little bit of extra
sauciness,
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a can of diced tomatoes.
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Oh, my mouth is watering.
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A little bit more cumin.
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(Sniffing)
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This smells just like Venezuela.
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♪
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It's time to make these.
266
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In Venezuela, we get these in
arepas all the time.
267
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So messy, so juicy,
268
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but so worth it.
269
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Full of flavour.
270
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Oh man, look at that.
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It's just the perfect sandwich.
272
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We're going to grab some cheese.
273
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Look at that, heaps of cheese,
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heaps of juice.
275
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All the flavours just dripping
from the arepa. Ah. Gorgeous.
276
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I can't wait to dig into this.
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Now I'm going to tell you a
little secret.
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This is how we do it back home
in Venezuela.
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One hand on the arepa,
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one hand on the cerveza.
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Mm.
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Mm!
283
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So good. You can taste the
marinade in the beef,
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the beef is really nice and
tender.
285
00:21:13,639 --> 00:21:16,942
I told you, it's messy,
but so worth it.
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The arepa is so versatile that
you can eat it like a toast
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with a little bit of butter,
288
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or you can just fill it with
whatever you have at home.
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This is why the arepa is the
most popular food in Venezuela.
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Enjoy!
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♪
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