Hot Vegetable Recipes How-Tos
How To: Pickle fresh cucumbers with garlic and vinegar
Making homemade pickles at home is a lot less expensive than buy them. Watch this how to video to learn how to pickle homegrown cucumbers. If you don't grow cucumbers, buy them at a grocery store. Add some fresh garlic, dill, water, vinegar, and pickling salt to your jar and you are ready to pickle.
How To: Clean, sear and medium dice green bell peppers
Love green bells peppers but don't know how to prepare them? This how to video will show you how to clean, sear and medium dice green bell peppers. Master these simple techniques to make great bell pepper recipes.
How To: Peel, truss, blanch and shock asparagus
Love asparagus but don't know how to prepare them? This how to video will show you how to peel, truss, blanch and shock asparagus. Learn these simple techniques to make great asparagus recipes.
How To: Make raw veggie burgers in a dehydrator
Raw dishes often entail food that is unprocessed and uncooked. This how-to video will show you great raw recipes to make at home in a dehydrator. Watch and learn how to prepare a raw veggie burger. All you need for this burger recipe is: sunflower seeds, flax seeds, celery, red bell peppers, salt, oregano, water and onion.
How To: Prepare a raw okra recipe with cabbage and onions
Raw and vegan dishes often entail food that is unprocessed and uncooked. This how-to video will show you great raw recipes to make at home. Watch and learn how to prepare a raw okra recipe. All you need for this okra recipe is: okra, bell peppers, onions, purple cabbage, cilantro and lemon.
How To: Prepare raw and vegan collard greens wrap
Raw and vegan dishes often entail food that is unprocessed and uncooked. This how-to video will show you great raw recipes to make at home. Watch and learn how to prepare a raw and vegan collard green wrap. All you need for this wrap recipe is: collard greens, carrots, cucumber, squash, avocado with fiesta mole. Try this raw vegan collard greens wrap for lunch.
How To: Store roasted red peppers in olive oil
Roasted red peppers are easy to store with this recipe treat from Rita Heikenfeld. Rita shows you how to prepare, roast and store red peppers for up to a year in your freezer. These peppers are great for pizza or pasta with their sweet taste and great red color. Watch this how-to video to learn how.
How To: Pickle jalapeno and Anaheim peppers at home
Pickled peppers are a great way to preserve your garden harvest. From spicy to sweet, this recipe will be a great treat on a cold winter day. Pickling jalapeño peppers, Anaheims, bell peppers really, any pepper is good for pickling. This how to video shows you an easy pickling recipe that requires very little time and won't keep you in the kitchen canning all day.
How To: Freeze and use tomatoes from the garden
Freezing tomatoes is a great way to store tomatoes to use all winter long. Tomatoes are great in soups or stews, freezing tomatoes help stretch the summer a bit longer. In how to video, Rita shows you how to freeze and use tomatoes from your garden.
How To: Make a broccoli salad recipe
Broccoli salad recipes are delicious and can be nutritious. A real "super food" broccoli is chock full of nutrition, antioxidants and flavor. This broccoli salad recipe is also an easy way to get more vegetables in your diet.
How To: Make baked beans with two different types of beans
Baked beans can be much more than the regular ones you're used to. This baked beans recipe takes an old country classic and spruces it up. These beans are easy to make and delicious to eat! In this how to video, Rita Heikenfeld shows you how to cook "Bodacious Baked Beans".
How To: Cook a thirty minute vegetable biryani
Here is a fragrant and satisfying biryani recipe for an easy vegetarian main course or side dish. Watch this how-to video to learn how to make a delicious rice and vegetable dish.
How To: Cook a black bean and baby corn vegan stir fry
Learn to cook a basic vegan black bean and baby-corn stir fry. Serve your black bean and baby corn stir fry with a side of rice. For an additional side dish make garlic and black-pepper asparagus.
How To: Prepare Hot Chili Peppers
Hot chili peppers can really spice up a dish. Its not always just about heat, chili peppers add a freshness to food. In this video Rita shows you an easy way to handle and chop hot chili peppers.
How To: Make tendon (Japanese Tempura Rice Bowl)
This tutorial video will show you how to make your own tendon, which is a Japanese tempura rice bowl.
How To: Make class ratatouille like a chef
In this tutorial cooking video, Chef Brian prepares a classic french recipe "Ratatouille". This eggplant recipe is quick, easy and quite healthy.
How To: Make a korean yeolmu kimchi
This tutorial video will show you how to make a Yeolmu kimchi. Yeolmu mul kimchi (young summer radish water kimchi) is a popular summertime dish in Korea. It's not too spicy, very cool, and refreshing.
How To: Cook a Korean style vegetable pancake
This tutorial Korean cooking video will show you how to make your very own Korean vegetable pancake. This is a great solution for dealing with the left over veggies in your fridge.
How To: Pick cattail shoots for wild gourmet meals
In part this tutorial video, Lee Gray takes you out to a swamp to pick cattail shoots in the wilds of the Oregon coast. Cattails have a wonderful variety of uses.
How To: Pick wild stinging nettles
In this tutorial video, Chef Gray takes you on a foray into the forest of the Oregon coast to safely pick "Stinging Nettles". Stinging nettles can be a wonderful delicacy that spice up any dish.
How To: Make kimchi
This tutorial video will teach you how to make kimchi. For this Korean recipe, you will need cabbage, Korean radishes, salt, sugar, ginger, garlic, sweet rice flour, fish sauce, hot pepper powder, oysters, green onions, onions, and possibly rubber gloves.
How To: Make fresh mashed potatoes
Learn to make fresh mashed potatoes with Professional Chefs Chris "Stu" Randell and Mike Yakura. This video cooking tutorial shows two great ways to make everybody's favorite, mashed potatoes. All you need is potatoes, butter, cream, salt, and pepper.
How To: Make candied yams like a pro
Learn to make candied yams with Professional Chef Gordon Drysdale. Weirdly, candied yams aren't usually made with yams, but with sweet potatoes. In any case they're delicious. You'll need sweet potatoes, tin foil, butter, brown sugar, walnuts, and spices of your choice. Learn how to bake candied yams by watching this video cooking tutorial.
How To: Make fire and ice pickles
Watch this how to video and try this fire and ice pickle recipe. These pickles make a great side dish to any sandwich or serve alone as a snack. Learn why they are called fire and ice.
How To: Cook stuffed marrow (zucchini) with ground meat
A marrow is also called a zucchini or a squash. Watch this how to video as our host shows you how to cook up some homegrown marrow. Stuff the zucchini with minced meat for a meal that everyone will enjoy.
How To: Cook sweet peas with garlic and ketchup
This is a very simple and very tasty sweet pea recipe. It goes well with fish, or a roasted chicken. Watch this how to video to learn how to cook sweet peas with garlic. All you need is a one can of peas, loads of garlic, and ketchup.
How To: Fry homemade twice-cooked French fries with aioli
Make the best French fries right in your own home. Watch this how to video as Bon Appetit Magazine gives you tips on making the best homemade French fries. Serve them up European style with a little whole grain dipping aoili. Fry homemade twice-cooked French fries with aioli.
How To: Make Indian vegetable biryani rice
Vegetable biryani is an Indian rice dish bursting with flavor. With so many layers of delicious spiced vegetables and rice and so many levels of flavor, it is definitely a satisfying meal all by itself. Watch this how to video and try this vegetable rice recipe for a very popular and widely recognized Indian dish.
How To: Cook Indian sprouted mung curry
Sprouted mung curry is such a simple and easy to make recipe with a wonderful, unique coconut flavor. This Konkani (region in India) dish is one that you will remember for a long time. Watch this how to video and learn how to make sprouted mung curry Indian style.
How To: Cook Indian style potatoes with peas (aloo matar)
Here is a super fast Indian recipe for aloo matar (potatoes with green peas), you can make this recipe using pre-made masala. Let your imagination run wild, substitute any vegetable and create yet another delicious variation. Watch this how-to video and learn how to make Indian aloo matar, potatoes and peas.
How To: Cook Indian style seasoned urad dal
Seasoned urad daal aka sukhi (dry) daal is a very unusual dal so think outside the box and give it a try. Just another fantastic and tasty way of getting your share of proteins. Watch this how-to video to get the recipe and instructions on how to make urad dal.
How To: Prepare Indian suji upma with semolina
Do away with the boring breakfast of toast and cereals and jazz up with some spice and flavor. This quick and easy suji upma recipe is traditionally served for breakfast but then there is no rule that you can’t enjoy it any other time of the day. Don't be intimidate by the ingredient list, watch this how to video and learn how easy is to prepare suji upma for your family.
How To: Cook Indian style potatoes with fenugreek (Aloo methi)
Aloo methi, or potatoes with fenugreek leaves, is a fragrant and flavorful Indian dish with a unique taste. Fenugreek leaves are well known for their many medicinal properties and are a great alternative to spinach as a leafy green vegetable. Watch this how to video and try this wonderful recipe. Turn your plain Jane potatoes into something delicious and healthy with fenugreek leaves.
How To: Cook Indian potatoes in a creamy yogurt sauce
This recipe for potatoes in a creamy yogurt sauce is just perfect for those times when you haven’t had a chance to get to the grocery store for fresh vegetables. The hardest part out of the entire recipe is boiling the potatoes. With the red of the tomatoes in the gravy and the green of the cilantro garnish, it is a visual treat. Watch this how to video to learn how to cook Indian style potatoes in a creamy yogurt sauce. This potato dish is also commonly known as dahi wale aloo.
How To: Make Indian style peanut stuffed peppers
There are a lot of variations to stuffed peppers. Try this recipe for our version of peanut stuffed peppers made with mild and flavorful Anaheim peppers. They are great appetizer or snack idea. Roll one up in a Chapati and enjoy it on the go! Watch this how to video to learn how to stuff them.
How To: Make Indian cabbage subzi
Always keep some cabbage handy because it has a long shelf life. It’s great for those days when you can’t think of anything else to make.
How To: Make Indian yogurt curry (punjabi kadhi )
Many regions in India have their own style of cooking kadhi, a yogurt based curry (or soup). Punjabi kadhi is easily recognizable because it has pakodas, fried dumplings made of chickpea flour. Punjabi Kadhi can be enjoyed with plain white rice or chapati. Try this tangy and delicious recipe for Punjabi Kadhi.
How To: Make Indian style gobi manchurian
Dry gobi manchurian, aka Cauliflower manchurian, is a tantalizing Indian Chinese appetizer and very different from the gravy version. The cauliflower has a crispy coating and is tossed with a mouth-watering spicy sauce. It can be picked up with a toothpick or fork and enjoyed with cocktails or before a meal. Watch this how-to video and try this absolutely delicious recipe!
How To: Make Indian style spiced cauliflower and potatoes
Aloo gobi masala is a flavorful Indian vegetarian dish made with potatoes, cauliflower and many spices. Watch this how-to video and try this recipe. Enjoy your creation with chappati, paratha or rice and daal. It’s delicious!
How To: Make Indian style kidney bean curry (rajma chawal)
Rajma-Chawal is a combination that is ‘to-die-for’. The best rajma (kidney beans) and chawal (rice) can be had at the obscure stores alongside the highways all over North India. Watch this how to video to learn how to make an kidney been curry.