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- Hey, guys.
It's Candice, The Edgy Veg,
and today, I'm going to show you
how to make your jackfruit taste
like the best pulled pork you've ever had.
Welcome back to another episode of Hacked,
where I take popular hacks on the internet
and test them out in my kitchen
and show you how to make your life easier.
So today, I'm using a very popular hack,
which is making jackfruit
taste like pulled pork,
but I wanted to see if I
could get that pork flavor
without just dousing it with
a bunch of barbecue sauce.
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One of the most popular ways
I've seen jackfruit
turned into pulled pork
is just cooking it over the stove,
tossing it with barbecue sauce,
and calling it a day.
I want to see if I can do
more of a dry approach,
and then of course if you love
that barbecued pulled pork taste,
you can also toss it
in the barbecue sauce,
but I really want to see if I can get,
with the Instant Pot,
double hacking your life right now,
get that jackfruit to have
that really nice pulled pork stringy,
almost smoked flavor to it.
The first thing that you want
to do with your jackfruit
is take it out of the can and rinse it.
Now, I'm using young jackfruit.
You can use it with either brine or water.
Just don't get in syrup,
or else you're going to
have a sweet, sticky mess.
So, I've rinsed it,
and I'm just going to throw
it into my Instant Pot.
You could do this with
a slow cooker as well.
You just have to adjust
the cooking instructions a little bit.
A lot of people online say to
just use a fork to shred it.
I like a potato masher.
So, I am just going to
mash the crap out of those.
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Okay, I have about half-mashed that.
With the pressure, it'll help
break it down a little bit more,
and then, we can go in after it's cooked
and mash it again.
To the Instant Pot I'm also going to add
one onion that I've diced,
a quarter-cup of tomato sauce,
the juice of one orange,
two cloves of garlic,
three tablespoons tamari,
two tablespoons nutritional yeast,
one tablespoon apple cider vinegar,
half of a teaspoon liquid smoke,
this stuff is super super powerful,
so don't put too much,
one tablespoon vegan Worcestershire,
Worcestershire sauce,
one tablespoon of ground cumin,
teaspoon of paprika,
and a teaspoon of thyme,
and then this will be ready
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in no time 'cause we're
using thyme, get it?
(laughs)
'Cause we're using thyme.
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I'm just gonna give this a quick toss.
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And then, let's cook this bad boy.
Okay, so we are going
to pressure cook this
for four minutes.
Sealing it, so it'll take
more than four minutes
for it to come to the
pressure that it needs.
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So rude.
Shhh.
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It's gonna take about 15 minutes
for it to come to the right pressure,
but then we're cooking it for four minutes
and then letting the, and then letting
the pressure escape
naturally for ten minutes,
and then it's ready to go.
Okay, so I have let this
pressure release naturally,
so we can open this guy up.
So, I'm just gonna give this a good stir,
and then we are going to
break up the rest of that
with our potato masher.
So, we're just gonna
break up the rest of that
with the potato masher.
It's nice and soft now because
it's been pressure cooked.
And see how it pulls apart
very similar to pulled pork?
It's amazing.
So, it's a fibrous plant,
so the more you mush it, the
more ish will come apart,
the more ish will.
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Okay, so once you have pulled it apart
just like pulled pork,
you can enjoy this a
couple different ways.
The first way is you can just
have it exactly like this.
I mean, it's delicious,
it's marinated,
it's nice and juicy,
so you can, you know, serve
it on a taco, for example.
A little bit of pulled pork and some slaw,
and you have yourself a carnita.
Look at that.
Very, very long piece of slaw.
So, you can serve it like that or
the other way you can do it
is take some of your jackfruit
and add it to a bowl,
and we're just going to add
some barbecue sauce to it
and create your traditional
barbecue jackfruit pulled pork sandwich.
So, all you have to do is
add some barbecue sauce,
whatever your favorite flavor is.
Mix that together.
Really the amount is up to you
depending on how saucy you like
your pulled pork sandwiches.
And you could just, you
know, cook the jackfruit
and add barbecue sauce
without all the extra
ingredients that I used,
but then your jackfruit
really isn't getting
that nice marinated smokey flavor
in the actual fruit itself.
It's just being coated in sauce,
which it's great if
you're pressed for time,
but I find this is a lot more authentic.
So then, we have just whatever bowl,
bowl, this is not a bowl.
This is a bun,
I know how to talk today.
You can use a Kaiser bun.
I just used a hot dog bun,
a hot dog bun, I really cannot talk today,
a hamburger bun,
and I'm just gonna top it with some slaw.
I used broccoli slaw today
with just a little bit
of apple cider vinegar
and vegan mayonnaise,
a super easy slaw dressing.
And then you can pile
that up nice and high
with your pulled pork jackfruit.
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Alright, guys.
There you have it, what uh,
what is this (laughs)
Alright, let's try that again.
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Alright, guys.
There you have it.
How to make your jackfruit taste
just like pulled pork two ways.
We have tacos.
We have a barbecue pulled pork sandwich.
Um, some delicious homemade, whoopsie,
making a big mess,
some delicious homemade slaw, super tasty.
Oh God.
If you like this recipe,
give this video a big thumbs up.
- [Man] You can even say,
"I'm surprised how good the Instant Pot."
- Guys, this is so good.
I would definitely recommend
using your Instant Pot
to make your jackfruit moving forward.
So, you get three hacks in one video.
Four, actually.
Another thing you can
do is when you reheat it
if you have any left over,
which I doubt that you will,
just reheat it in the oven,
and then it also makes
it kind of crispier,
which is really tasty as well.
Throw it on some pizza, oh my God.
So many hacks to tackle in this series.
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Bye!
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- [Man] She did that.
