- All right guys if you're new here,
welcome to my channel.
I'm Candice The Edgy Veg
and what do I usually say?
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For those of you who don't
know this fun fact about me,
I used to run a raw food
restaurant back in the day.
It wasn't my restaurant I
ran it for someone else.
I used to think raw food
was like the most amazing food ever
and I've since then clearly
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shifted away from that.
But one thing that was
always super intriguing
to me was how to turn
nuts ans seeds into meats.
So I thought today I
would revisit the recipe
I have made like six years ago.
Which was a walnut based taco meat.
So in today's episode
of Hacked, I want to see
if I can take nuts and
seeds specifically walnuts
and sunflower seeds, and
turn them into ground beef.
Hacked is a series on my channel where I
take internet hacks,
really weird food tricks,
test it out and see if
it's worth it for you
to try it out at home.
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delicious recipes every Tuesday
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and I would hate it if you missed out.
I would hate it if you missed out!
I feel so bad for you
because clearly, this
is something you don't want to miss.
We're turning nuts into meat!
(laughs)
I am sure that you've noticed that this
is different, I'm not
in my normal apartment,
there's some stuff going down in my condo.
So we are at Anthony's lovely
place, thank you Anthony
for letting me come here
and shoot and, you know,
ruin you kitchen.
And uh, we're gonna just, you
know, work with what we got
which is great for you guys because all
the recipes will be
delicious and simple because
I'm not surrounded by my usual things.
The base of this meat is super simple,
it is just soaked walnuts
and some sunflower seeds.
I like to use a combination of both
because walnuts are fairly expensive.
So I like to cut the cost by also
incorporating sunflower seeds because
they're pretty cheap.
Also their textures are
a little bit different,
and I like one that's
soaked, and one that's not.
For the spicing of this meat, I want to
do it two different ways.
One is more of like a general meat,
and kind of like beef flavor,
and then the other one
I'm going to add some cayenne
and some chili flavors
to make it like a taco meat.
It's all going to be made in a
food processor so super easy.
Let's see if it works!
Did you know that the fat
from walnuts is really good
for your brain?
It's also a natural antidepressant.
I'm not saying that you should go off your
antidepressants and eat walnuts.
But it is a natural mood elevator.
We have our food processor,
I should not be talking
with my mouth full.
So I have soaked a bunch of walnuts,
the soaking just helps
the texture of the meat.
Going to put that in the food processor
along with the sunflower seeds.
(walnuts being poured)
(sunflower seeds being poured)
And then we are just going
to pulse that a couple times
to break down the nuts and seeds.
(repeated grinding)
Okay, to our pulsed nuts
and seeds we are going
to add some cumin,
coriander,
paprika,
garlic powder,
onion powder,
salt,
soy sauce or tamari,
and olive oil.
And we're going to pulse that again
until it's well combined.
(repeated grinding)
I'm gonna get a spoon and just scrape down
the sides, and you can mix this.
Just don't mix it to the
point that you end up
with a paste, you do want
it to have a good texture.
Just scrape down, taste it,
see if you like the texture,
keep pulsing or stop.
Tasty already.
I think it could use
a little bit more oil.
It's my, my traveling oil.
Add a little bit more oil,
you want it to be authentic
after all, and ground beef is well, oily.
Pulse it a couple more times.
(repeated grinding)
And that's the basis for just your basic
ground walnut meat.
I'm going to take out half,
and spice the other half with
more like taco style seasonings,
so I'm going to add some cayenne pepper
and some chili powder.
The thing about raw foods,
especially something
like this, this is pretty good.
Tomorrow though, like the
next day, when all the flavors
have had a chance to marinate,
(whispering) it's going to be so good.
Okay, so I have half in a bowl here,
so this is just the normal
kind of plain taco beef.
Sorry, not taco beef, ground beef.
What I'm making now is
seasoning for tacos,
nachos, that sort of thing.
So I'm adding some chili
powder and cayenne pepper
to give it that kind
of like tex-mex flavor
it'll be a little bit spicy as well.
I'm gonna pulse that again!
(repeated grinding)
So that's done, so I'm
going to taste both of them
on their own, and I want
to see how it stands out
to being cooked.
So we're going to make some nachos.
There's nothing better than nachos.
- [Anthony] It's like "I made
this video mostly for me."
- I did, I pretty much
just made this video for me
because I wanted nachos today.
What's actually funny is
how huge these chips are
compared to this tiny (laughs)
little thing that I brought.
Okay, so I'm just building
like your basic nacho setup.
I have some tortilla chips,
I like to do two layers when
it comes to nachos.
So this is the first layer, I'm going
to add some refried beans,
just like little dollops
everywhere, make sure you've
washed your hands, I have.
So I'm just adding dollops,
you can use just normal beans
if you want like black beans or whatever,
I just, I love me some refried beans.
I like to kind of evenly
spread it out so there's
a little bit of each
ingredient on each chip.
So every bite is perfect.
(laughs)
Let's add some of this beef.
This fake beef.
It's not fake, it's just plant based,
it's plant based beef!
I want to use both types.
The nacho type, and the normal type.
The cheese that I have chosen today
is from Emborg, it's french.
Yes, I'm using french
cheddar on my nachos,
because we're boujee around here.
I haven't tried the cheddar
style but I've tried the
pizza version of it on
homemade vegan pizza,
and it was delicious, so I'm hoping that
this is just as good.
Some tomatoes, and then I'm going
to repeat this with the next layer.
All right I've built the
nachos, double layer because
we really like to have a good perfect bite
of nacho every time.
I'm going to throw these in the oven,
and then we're going to see how this
walnut beef stands up to the test.
(tray sliding)
(calm upbeat jazz music)
All right we have our nachos
here they're ready to go.
I have some salsa, some
guac, what I'm going
to do is I'm going to taste
each one of these on their own.
So this one is the taco seasoning.
It's a little bit spicier,
it has like the typical like
mexican, tex-mex style seasoning to it.
I think it'll be really good the next day,
and also I would add a little
bit more oil, definitely.
Yeah same thing, super good.
I would definitely add
little bit more oil,
and I think you'd think
it could be oilier.
Unless you're adding it to like
a tomato sauce or something.
But it's really good!
Like it's really convincing,
I mean if you were
to have this in like the
tomato sauce or on nachos,
or with a taco with a
bunch of other stuff, like,
I don't think you'd
miss the beef that much.
All right, let's try
cooked, on top of nachos.
Okay.
It definitely dries by
the time it's cooked.
I would, let me just grab one
of these pieces that doesn't.
The flavor's there but it
dries out a little bit when
it's cooked so I would definitely
make sure that I've soaked
the walnuts overnight,
and then with the addition
of a little bit more oil
I think it can hold up.
You do risk overcooking it.
So you would have to
watch it if you were doing
something like nachos like this,
or you can always add them in after.
I think if you were to
put this into a sauce
it would be fine, but just on their own,
on top of something like this,
it does dry out a little bit.
It's still very good,
it's just crunchier than
normal ground beef.
There you have it, ground
beef made out of nuts
and seeds.
Honestly, I would do
this over and over again,
I think it's a really nice whole foods way
of incorporating some
FOH meats into your diet
if you don't want to go out and buy a lot
of soy products, if you're
looking for something
that's a little bit more natural,
a bit more soul to the Earth, let me know
if you guys would try this at home
by leaving me a comment in
the comment section below.
Also let me know what hack you want
me to test out next, and
I will take a stab at it
so that you don't have to try it out for
the first time at home with yourself.
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Bye!
