(Joyful music) (applause) - Welcome to Yan Can Cook!

People always have the wrong idea that fast food is something that you have to go out for, this is absolutely not true.

Anyone can do a great meal in minutes.

I've brought with me, just to show you and to assure you, I've brought with me today a little timer, I'm gonna set it right now.

30 minutes or less, 28 and a half minutes, okay?

Look at this.

This way we are gonna have great dishes, six of them, in minutes.

I want to show you how easy it is to do it.

The first thing I want to show you is a dish that I always do when I'm buying, and when I run out of time.

It's called teriyaki beef with rainbow vegetables.

Very easy to do.

All I have to do is have a piece of beef right here.

I'm gonna marinade this, okay?

Mince some garlic and have some black pepper.

Minced garlic, ah!

Done!

(laughter) Of course you can do a lot slower, you have time.

But I'm.... See, time is running out!

And I sprinkled tiny bit of black pepper, you can use white pepper, black pepper.

Okay you can use...

This is a piece of New York cut, you can use sirloin, you can use flank steak, you can use anything you can buy available in your fridge, it's no problem.

Garlic marinade this for approximately half an hour or overnight, okay?

Very easy to do.

After you marinade this we can get ready to cook.

It's very easy to do.

Okay, let's set this aside.

Very easy to do.

This is approximately half a pound, two pieces of one pound, okay?

I'm gonna have a pan here.

A lot of people don't know that you can do a very nice steak in the pan.

I'm gonna turn my heat on right now.

This is a regular pan I use, very easy to do.

And then when this is hot enough I use a tiny bit of oil.

Look at this, a tiny bit of oil.

Not much, okay?

You can use your skillet, this is very easy to do.

(mumbles) And you can start doing it.

All you have to do is about two to three minutes on one side, depends on whether you want medium rare, or rare, or well done.

(steak sizzling) For medium rare, two and a half to three minutes on one side, okay?

Well done, three and a half to five minutes, and cut to six minutes.

You want to make beef jerky, cook it for seven hours on each side.

(laughs) Let it sit, okay?

No problem at all, let sit.

In the meantime, we are gonna make some teriyaki sauce.

Of course you can make your own if you have time, or you just go out and buy it.

You're running out of time, you can go and buy it.

So you just wait, you can teriyaki in a hurry.

And teriyaki sauce, very popular Japanese seasoning sauce.

You use soy sauce.

I'm gonna make teriyaki sauce right here.

We're gonna turn this on, and we'll make teriyaki sauce.

Okay.

Soy sauce.

I give it a set recipe, I have it right here.

I have half a cup of sake.

Sake is Japanese rice wine.

To make good teriyaki sauce you've gotta sake to it!

(laughter) And soy sauce and sugar, I have...look at this, I have this, I have quarter cup of sugar.

Quarter cup of sugar, and also some garlic, and a tiny bit of ginger, one teaspoon of each.

Now we're gonna turn this upside down.

Let's turn this upside down.

Wow, look at this.

How beautiful, can you see that?

Pan fried.

In the meantime we are making some teriyaki sauce.

This teriyaki sauce very easy to do.

Thicken it up with cornstarch solution, that's how it easy it is.

Always use chopsticks as a cooking utensil while you are doing that teriyaki beef.

Let's make sure the cornstarch is thickened.

Always stir your cornstarch solution because if they precipitate they sink to the bottom, they separate.

This way you have a wonderful sauce.

Look at this, marvelous!

It smells good, can anybody smell it over there?

Oh look at this!

In the meantime, this is also thickened.

Make sure when this is thickened you set it aside and put the beef.

In the meantime what you can do is use the same pan to do some other things.

So you can do two dishes simultaneously.

This is marvelous.

Woo!

That's excitement.

You can do it again, woo!

(crowd laughs) That's excitement number two!

When this is done you set it aside, see?

And put the teriyaki sauce, okay?

Right on top.

In the meantime... Oh look at that sauce.

In the meantime you can use the same pan to do a rainbow of vegetable.

Because in this particular pan you can make teriyaki beef with this onion.

(pan sizzling) Cauliflower, and broccoli, and mushroom.

If you want you can also use a tiny tiny bit of black mushroom.

(chopping) Set it aside, put it right here.

Okay?

This sauce is enough, we'll set it.. Then look at this.

To save time, this is what you should do.

You should put about a quarter cup to half a cup of chicken broth and then you can cover up.

Look at this, cover up.

You know why we have to cover up?

Its very important to cover up because you can shorten the cooking time, make cooking time a lot faster.

Because good vegetable can be wasted by overexposure.

Make sure... A lot of people when they do stir fry vegeta.. they don't really know that you can cover this up.

Because when you cover up you cook it with steam, okay?

Make sure you cover up.

Now you can tell that I can use this same pan to do everything.

That's what you call panmanship.

(laughter) Put it all together.

Can you see how nice and colorful?

It doesn't take too long to cook at all.

When its almost ready you sprinkle a tiny bit of white pepper and also use a tiny bit of soy sauce.

That's all you need, do not overcook.

It's very easy to do.

I always have approximately 50 pots and pans in my kitchen, all my pan-pals.

(laughter) Now stir, stir, and this is absolutely done.

When its done we're gonna serve this.

And I can tell you why you call this rainbow vegetables.

Look at how beautiful this is.

When this is done put serve this.

Look at how beautiful!

(applause) One way to get a meal in minutes is to make a pit stop on your way home from work.

Nowadays we all work overtime just to barely make a living.

With such a hectic schedule and busy lifestyle we just don't have time to cook.

So there's one place that you can really find some hot, nutritious, delicious, wonderful food, it's in a Chinese deli.

So let me show you how you can buy some wonderful delicious Chinese food.

Here you will find a smorgasbord of freshly prepared dishes and delicacy.

Like stuffed fuzzy melon, sweet and sour pork, spare ribs and bitter melon, steamed chicken, and soy sauce chicken, barbecue pork, and barbecue spare ribs.

Beef and Chinese broccoli.

And for vegetarians there is a dish like mushroom with dried bean curd, and soy sauce braised tofu, and of course the ever popular barbecue pork chow mein.

Many of these dishes are cooked and served right on the streets in China and many parts of Asia, just like the hot dog stands you see on the street here.

Now you see, Chinese food can be fast and conven..

I just bought six wonderful dishes, I'm gonna come to your house for dinner right now!

(applause) Can you imagine?

We ate them all!

I'm gonna lose this because I don't want anybody to get to it, I save it for cooking.

The next dish I'm gonna do is another wonderful dish, sweet and sour fish with pineapple fried rice.

Do it in the same pan.

All I need is one pound of white fish, okay?

One pound of white fish, I move here.

You can use red snapper, you can use cod, you can use sea bass, any fish.

I use red snapper because it makes a snappy meal.

(laughter) I needed that to get excited.

And you cut it up like this, bite size pieces.

One, two, three, you see that?

Chinese chef always like to cut things towards the finger but at home you should do it on the opposite side, see?

This way after you cut it up you graciously transfer and you put it right here.

Because I'm gonna show you how quickly and how easy it is to make a batter, okay?

This is marvelous because all you need...

It's very very quick, very simple easy batter to make.

One egg, okay.

Quarter of a cup of cornstarch.

Mix up the egg and the cornstarch, add a tiny bit of salt, about a quarter of a teaspoon of salt, a pinch of white pepper.

Get it nice and wonderful, very unique batter.

Great exercise.

(laughter) Okay nice and easy, okay?

Of course you can use a whisk to do this.

The marvelous thing about this batter is this batter is batter than the average batter, this is fast!

(laughter) And right now this batter is looking batter and batter!

(laughter) It's very confusing when I mix with batter.

And then mix them all up and put them all in.

In the meantime, to save time we're gonna heat up our frying pan or wok pan here.

Mix them all up, save it, save it.

Since we have a lot of people we can make a little bit more.

Okay, very easy to do.

This batter not only has a tiny bit.. you can just take off the egg yolk, just use egg white if you want.

Okay this is also very tasty because of the salt and pepper.

When this is nice and ready we'll put them all together because we have 600 people here.

So we will cook enough for everybody.

Look at this, how marvelous.

When this is frying and hot and ready to be fried use approximately this much oil.

How much?

I have no idea!

(laughter) All you have to do is put a tiny b..

But this is nonstick.

Listen to this sizzling sound.

When you do this you should not use high heat.

You know why, if you do you'll burn it, okay.

Listen to this sizzling sound.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Make sure if there's not enough you can put a tiny tiny bit... Five extra drops of oil, okay?

But it all depends on how many people you're cooking.

Okay, very important.

And of course you notice I will use the same pan to do the sauce and the fried rice.

Can you see that?

Now I'll show you.

Everybody look, everybody can see th.. Ha!

Can you see that?

(applause) Everybody!

Of course next time you should practice so make sure everybody know that everybody has a practice in such a way that it all fall back down to the same pan.

Otherwise you're gonna have picnic on the floor.

Now when this is again ready all you have to do is get ready to make a sauce.

Now you can make your own sauce...

I'm gonna turn this on.

Or you can always buy good bottles of sweet and sour sauce in the market, okay.

Since we are running out of time... Because look at the time!

Have a few more minutes.

And then all we have to do is get a good bottle of sweet and sour sauce, put it in the pan, and we just warm it up, okay.

The whole thing.

It's good exercise!

This is how I hit the bottle.

And then put some pineapple, okay?

Very good.

The sauce all you have to do is warm it up.

And the fish is done, and the sauce is done.

This is how efficient it is.

Everything is done in no time.

And this is done, look at the beautiful fish.

Marvelous, I like it.

It looks good!

It looks nice and golden brown.

Look at all this wonderful fish.

Look at this, huh?

And you lay them all out nicely, and then you put the sauce right on top.

Wow, look at this.

Look at that, huh.

And the same time, use the same pan to do your pineapple fried rice.

It is very easy to do.

Mince a tiny bit of ginger.

Tiny bit of ginger... (knife cracking) Done.

(laughter) Use the same pan, see?

Use the same pan.

We don't need this anymore so we get rid of this.

And then put a tiny bit of extra garlic and ginger.

Wow look at this.

Look at this, huh?

We have a few ingredients everybody know.

Red pepper, how do you do it?

You cut it up like this.

Look at this.

One, two, three, four, five, six, set it aside.

Okay, put it right here.

We have some pineapple, and that's all you need.

When this is ready you put the... Wow.

Red pepper, half a red pepper is fine.

You put some green onion.

Slice some green onion.

If you have time you can always do it yourself.

(chopping) (applause) Put them all together and then you are ready and wow look at this.

And then you put the rice and the pineapple in.

This is what you call pineapple fried rice.

Wow look at this, how beautiful.

How marvelous.

All you have to do is use soy sauce.

One tablespoon is all.

A tiny bit of sesame seed oil.

Half a teaspoon or a teaspoon of sesame seed oil.

A tiny bit of white pepper, pinch of white pepper.

And then if the rice is refrigerated, if its cooked you should put a tiny tiny bit of chicken broth.

Now I love pineapple so much, sometimes the pineapples never make it to the dish.

(laughter) This whole dish is done.

(pan sizzling) (applause) Can you see how beautiful this dish is?

We just make a dish with sweet and sour sauce but that's not only the sauce that you can get from a bottle.

Here's some of them that you may want to stock up in your pantry that are available in a lot of the supermarket or Asian stores.

With all of these sauces you can make a great variety of dishes.

Look at this here, we have black bean sauce, we have golden plum sauce, very nice.

Delicious!

And then we have this hoisin sauce, when you have peaking duck, moo shu pork, this is what they put in the pancake in the bun.

And this is teriyaki basting glaze, so it can do your baking, roasting, indoor, outdoor, in between door, on top of door, underneath the door, on all sides of doors.

(laughter) And then we have this curry paste.

Curry sauce that you just have to open it up and put it on your curry chicken.

And then of course we have the oyster flavor sauce, this goes well with all kind of vegetable, even in fried rice it goes well.

And for those who love to smoke their hair this is chili paste.

And we also have chili paste with garlic.

We have all kinds of sauce, stock it up in your pantry so you can do it all the time.

So you can fix meals not only in minutes but in seconds!

Here we're gonna show you how to do a clear lettuce soup with poached chicken wing.

Marvelous!

First lets get our chicken broth out first.

Make sure it bring to a boil.

To flavor your broth the Chinese chef all they need is a tiny bit of salt, and a couple slice of ginger, and a piece of green onion.

Put it in first, bring it to a boil.

In the meantime we want to get our chicken ready.

Depends on how many people you have, you can anywhere use three to four to five to 12 chicken wings.

We cut this in half, we cut this break this up, put them all together, cut this in half.

Save the wing tip for something else, if you want.

But it's good for your broth, okay?

Cut this up, we will have time.

You're doing it last minute, you don't have time to do it three days in advance.

With this all together you put it all in here.

Okay, and then get a spoon.

Stir them around, now look it this is getting good.

While you are doing this you should make a seasoning salt for the chicken wing.

In the meantime your broth is getting more and more rich, more flavorful.

I'm gonna turn on this.

Look at this, I'm gonna turn on my little frying pan here.

Add some salt, okay.

A tiny bit of pepper, a tiny bit of five spice powder, and a tiny bit of Sichuan peppercorn.

You want I will show you Sichuan peppercorn, look at this.

This is how it look.

Sichuan peppercorn.

And this is the crushed Sichuan peppercorn.

Everybody can do it ahead of time.

You don't have to do it in the last minute.

When this is getting ready, move them around, okay.

Move them around, set it aside.

All you have to do is heat it up and get the aroma out of there.

When its nice and ready... Look at this.

You want to get the chicken wing out because the chicken wing doesn't take too long to cook.

Get the chicken wing out, okay?

Let's get the chicken wing out.

We have been cooking for everybody here.

Look at this.

Let's get it out... Ouch!

Tough to make a living.

(laughter) This is pretty... (makes sound of pain) Hot, hot!

Wow I am glad I am getting paid to do this.

(laughter) Five dollar and 25 cents an hour.

(laughter) When this is nice and ready you ca.. with oyster flavor sauce or a tiny bit of this salt.

Okay, look at this.

Sprinkle a tiny bit of salt around.

Okay look at this, very easy to do.

Everybody can do it.

(applause) In the meantime... We're gonna put it here.

In the meantime, with the same broth you can make a.. Cut up a tiny bit of carrot.

(chopping) I am running out of time!

And then put the carrot, some green peas, and also lettuce, my favorite.

Put a tiny bit of lettuce right here.

Now when I was growing up I was having this soup every other day.

I never had the alphabet soup.

If the soup company is smart, they can make a fortune to make the Chinese character soup.

Can you imagine how many of these they can sell in China?

(laughter) When this is nice and ready we are going to ladle my soup.

Put it right here, this is so wonderful, so easy to do.

Everybody can do it.

This is absolutely beautiful.

Here we have two marvelous dishes.

(applause) Now so that's why I always tell people why settle for the lettuce soup at home when you can wing it?

Now you can see, time is not a problem for making.

(alarm ringing) We finished all six wonderful dishes in 28 minutes and a half.

There's no problem to make very healthy delicious dishes in minutes.

So until next time, practice with your chop stick.

Remember, if Yan can cook, so can you.

“Goodbye!” (##!)

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