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this is not a meal prep video | what two people who love to cook eat in a week

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this is not a meal prep video | what two people who love to cook eat in a week

Spend a cosy week with us as two people who have fallen in love with cooking

Here are the recipes for everything we made this week, in case you wanted to try them for yourself:

0:00 (Market Run)

3:16 (Sunday Lunch – baked snapper, roasted purple potatoes & green salad)

4:21 (Monday Dinner – chicken biryani + kale mallum)

The biryani is inspired by a recipe Arun adapted from this video:

Chicken biryani

Ingredients:

1.5 cups basmati rice
500g Maryland chicken pieces
2 tsp turmeric
2 tsp chilli powder
1 tbsp ghee
Whole spices: bay leaves, cinnamon, fennel seeds, star anise, black peppercorns, cardamom
2 red onions, sliced
2 green chillies
1 tbsp ginger paste
1 tbsp garlic paste
1 handful coriander (including stems), chopped
1 handful mint, chopped
2 tbsp yoghurt
1 tomato, diced
Salt
1.5 tbsp curry powder
1 tsp garam masala
Juice of ½ lemon
A handful of raw cashews + sultanas

Method:

Lightly marinate the chicken with the turmeric and chilli powder.
Wash the rice until the water runs clear, then leave it to soak while you cook everything else.
Heat the ghee in a large pot and fry the whole spices until fragrant.
Add the onions and green chillies and cook until caramelised.
Stir in the ginger and garlic paste and cook for a few minutes.
Add the coriander and mint.
Stir through the yoghurt, then add the tomatoes.
Once the tomatoes begin to break down, season with salt, curry powder and garam masala.
Add the lemon juice and marinated chicken.
Layer the rice on top, followed by the cashews and sultanas.
Cover the pot with foil and a lid, then cook on the lowest heat for about 30 minutes.

Kale mallum

Ingredients:

1 bunch kale
⅔ cup desiccated coconut
1 red onion, diced
10 curry leaves
1 tsp turmeric
Salt + pepper
1 tsp coconut oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
2 dried red chillies

Method:

Finely chop the kale (including the stems) and place in a bowl with the coconut, onion, curry leaves, turmeric, salt and pepper.
Heat the coconut oil in a large pan and fry the mustard seeds until they pop.
Add the red chillies and fry for about a minute.
Add the kale mixture and cook lightly until the kale softens but still has a little crunch — about 10 minutes.

6:42 (Tuesday Morning – hot cross buns)

7:44 (Wednesday Dinner – Thai chicken noodle Soup)

(From Lanna by Chariya Khattiyot)
Ingredients:

1 litre chicken stock (low-sodium or use 500ml of full-sodium chicken stock and 500ml of water)
500g chicken drumsticks
3 garlic cloves, bruised
3cm piece ginger, sliced
Coriander stems from 4 sprigs
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp oyster sauce
½ tsp white pepper
200g rice noodles
Choy sum
Coriander, red chilli + lime, to garnish

Method:

Bring the stock to a boil in a large saucepan.
Add the garlic, ginger, coriander stems and chicken drumsticks.
Simmer for 30–40 minutes.
Once the chicken is cooked, season the broth with soy sauce, oyster sauce and white pepper.
Remove the chicken and cook the choy sum in the broth for about 1 minute.
Assemble with noodles and your garnishes.

9:13 (Thursday Lunch – gimbap)

Taught to us by our friends, but we use Maangchi’s recipe for reference:
https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/gimbap

10:16 (Friday dinner – creamy sausage pasta)

From RecipeTinEats (aka Nagi):

Orecchiette Sausage Pasta in creamy tomato sauce

46 Comments

  2. @Itsdaiisy

    Your kitchen is so lovely and cozy, I enjoyed watching this video so much it was sooo comforting ♡

  3. @heydanchu

    This was such a lovely watch. May i ask what camera did you guys use to capture these moments?

  4. @nikkibrownn

    LOOOVE this video, so sweet and lovely to see such delicious and healthy meals! Would love to know all the cookbooks you guys have!

  6. @eyeashl

    absolutely lovely, dare say an inspiration! looking forward to what y'all cook up next

  10. @vespera-v3j

    This is so incredibly wholesome. Watching you cook together made me so happy and reminded me that despite everything going on in the world, there’s so much peace in the simple things. You both give off the vibe of that one friend’s parents who love each other so much that they basically adopt the whole friend group. Love this energy so much! ✨

  12. @anikabubonica

    Wow love this. I grew up in a household like this and have always made my kitchen the heart of my life! I've seen food prep videos as something that "I should try that sometime" but it felt like so much effort to change my cooking habits, even if it was "less efficient." Now that I live with my partner who is also a big home cook, the shared labor makes it easier and a pleasant way to connect.

  14. @Maggie87P

    Just subscribed, really liked the vibes ✨ just wanted to say that would be a good idea to have the background music a little bit quieter, sometimes it was hard to understand what you were saying because of it. Other that really enjoyed it!

  22. @ankitbanerjee925

    please try the kolkata biryani once.. its a completely new experience you will be having when you would have the potatoooooo

  23. @mez2487

    Monday: dead animal
    Tuesday: dead animal
    Wednesday: dead animal
    Thursday lunch: dead animal
    Friday: dead animal
    spend a cosy week as we eat flesh but make it cute : D

  25. @elizabethshwe1003

    Im obsessed w your guys aesthetic and love for home cooked meals it was so relaxing and rewarding to watch pls make more videos!!

  28. @jels.7889

    so calming! i love the queen vic market. and you eating the HCBs reminded me I have a beautiful fruit loaf in the freezer, going to go toast that rn lol

  29. @langilatu5562

    I clicked on this thinking you guys were a couple from New York and was so surprised to find out you’re in Melbourne too! Everything feels so genuine and wholesome, real cooking, real conversations, and real people. 5mins into my first video and I already think you’ve become one of my favourite channels. Never leave comments, but had to let you know.

  32. @IBenfinity

    Love the format, but out of all the meals you made, none of them were vegetarien, so i cant really leave a follow as it doesnt align with my food habbits.

  36. @carsonkeller223

    i hope y'all's life is as intimate and cozy as this video makes it look, and i hope mine will be too one day. cooking is a journey and a chore that few people truly love and having a partner that loves it as much as you do is a gift. cheers!

  39. @ktokonkwo

    And to think I almost scrolled right past this video. So glad I stayed, this is exactly the kind of content I love watching. Keep it up 👏

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