Plantain is difficult to peel, you should run it under hot tap water and then slice through the skin down the whole plantain and then stick your thumb through it and use your thumb to push under the skin and separate it from the fruit. Also, you definitely ate raw plantain. If you fry it or air fry it has to be cooked twice, once until it gets soft enough then smash flat with a cup and then fry again. You can also boil it and then mash it. Or wait until it turns black/yellow so its fully ripe and then just fry it once and it will be sweet.
I would not say that’s a typical school lunch in Ukraine but it’s a good representation of what dishes we cook day to day. At school, elementary students usually have manka, which is a type of watery porridge, buckwheat, or mashed potatoes with sausages. Also, instead of pickled cabbage, we usually have sauerkraut on the side. I’ve never heard anyone put peas in borscht, usually it’s beans or meat along with cabbage. We eat borscht with black bread and sour cream. And high school students usually have pirojki, pizzas, or some puff pastry sausage rolls. So you were pretty on point, well done! 💙💛
If you make the pea soup the Finnish way, it is made from dried peas soaked overnight and the soup is boiled for a long time. It can be vegetarian, or it can have meat in it. I actually think the mushy peas I got in England with my Fish&Chips tasted a lot like it 😅
@@bearclaire Not exactly, here they dry them whole, but the idea is just the same. A split pea soup would be very close to the Finnish kind, I think :)
That looks nothing like a Brazilian school dinner. But as a brazilian, I really appreciate your effort. And let me tell you, Taz, I love all your videos. I've been following you for many years. ❤
Could you and Moon do your childhood favourites or like children's party buffet food from when you were younger? Maybe even remaking the dessert options from primary school dinners? 😊
Moon's "Miso Soup Face" Needs to be a meme 🤣🤣🤣 She went from a young woman to a 90yr old old lady in 0.2 seconds! I love you too!! Another great video!
I CANNOT believe that Brazilian food got lower rating than US food. It definitely looked much better. Also on the topic of being a good lunch lady or not, from my knowledge, the lunch ladies don't make the food, they serve it. (Our food was frozen and was defrosted).
I have some news about brazilian food, we don't use can beans 😅. And we fry in oil, nor in the air fryer. Probably these two things will make some difference 😂
CANNED BEANS IS A HUGE NO FOR US FR!! my boyfriend ADORES brazilian beans, he finds it the BEST and in his house they use canned beans so YK. palso i feel like she’s missing frying the garlic too for things 😩😩
Dried beans like you have in Brazil aren't that common in the UK really. Perhaps it's changing back, but it's mostly just canned beans. And plantains are used in some places, especially as"meat substitute" in some dishes; you'll see it in veggie recipes
Shallow pan fry the plantains in vegetable oil (instead of deep frying) until lightly browned. Then set them onto a plate with some kitchen roll. When they have cooled enough to be handled, give them a slight smash to flatten them out before frying them a second time. Once they are nicely browned and slightly crispy outside, but not burnt, and fluffy tender inside return them to the kitchen roll. Sprinkle a little bit of salt on them and they are ready to serve. They are starchy but should be slightly sweet, almost like sweet potato fries. I'm guessing the air fryer method still needs them to be lightly coated with oil or the air fryer will just dehydrate them instead of actually cooking them.
The plantain was unripe and in my culture (nigerian) is prepared as a pottage or grilled(with spicy sauce) or thin sliced and fried as chips. For it to be fried, it is best when it is ripe. To cut it, you slide the tip of your knife across it then use your hand to open it all the way.
the finnish food you tried was a lot nicer than we're used to here. our school food is often a little tasteless tbh :D and we rarely have any desserts for lunch. also, most of the time there's this thing called "näkkileipä" to go with your food instead of actual bread.
Taz for Plantains you cut along the side then you peel it. You need to oil your hands while preparing it because the starch will stick to your hands. As for the pronunciation it Plan-tain like Mountain
You did that plantain dirty 😂😂 Usually you’d buy plantain that’s yellow but going a little bit black. That’s when it’s sweet. Then fry in a little oil 🤌🏻🤤
That American meal looks miles better than what I had as a kid. We got a lot of cardboard like pizza, vaguely food shaped patties, and dodgy looking fruit.
To open plantains in my country we usually remove the ends put a slit vertically and peel it or put it in the microwave for a couple of seconds like 10-20 seconds and then peel it. I love plantains 🥹
Taz: hates cooking in her old home Also Taz: moves home and immediately makes 5 meals 😂😂😂 Also anyone else love the feeling like Moon and Taz are one of your friends?
This is exactly what I did NOT like in the video. :D I felt she did not give it a fair shot. She had decided she did not like that food before she actually tried a bite.
for the future, most of the stuff in borscht should be fried before boiling like onion, cabbage, beetroot and carrots. that's where you get all the taste. also we usually eat with sour cream
I'm sorry Taz, but I'm from Brazil and this is not what is served at schools...but it was a good try. It is, usually, beans, rice and pasta with a cheap protein and some farofa. If it has salad, usually is a vinagrete. No peppers, no bread, no plantain. A waterdowned juice is on the side. I'm not complaining at all, just want to inform! Only public schools serves food for the kids, and those schools are the most precarious ones because it is payed by the government and attend to the low income population. Because of that, the government don't invest a lot on those schools and the situation is not so good. That is why, that beautiful plate that you made does not represent what is served for the children here in Brazil. And in the private schools you have to pay for your food, so usually the food is pretty good but a little expensive, since you're already paying for the school.
In Ireland we could leave at lunch and we used to go get curry chip buttys / taco chips / breakfast rolls etc in the shop beside school lol! School canteen just had like gaujon rolls, sausage rolls, salad rolls and snacks
the way moon pronounced borscht is right lol my exes mom use to make it all the time, she put chunks of beef in hers. some people eat it with sour cream too
For plantain you need to coat with oil or deep fry it, otherwise it's dry. The green plantain is a unripe, you need to buy the yellow one and do as previous comment
Taz, you’re not supposed to cook the green plantain on the air fryer 😭 and those green plantains are for tostones. the yellow plantains are for amarillos which is what you tried to do with the green plantain. i screamed love this so much honestly
Hi Taz! I am from Finland and been a subscriber for a while now. I really enjoy your content, you are so entertaining. :) About the Finnish school lunch, beetroot salad we don't eat so often, but the pea soup was accurate and the pancakes. However, the proper way to make pea soup is to cook it for 2-3 hours and it contains meat. But you did really well! :)
Finish one looked the best to me - the kind of lunch I would like to eat. I actually am making such beetroot salad quite often. But I use sour cream and a bit of mayonnaise instead of greek yogurt. I did not see if they added pickled cucumber to the salad, but that is one of the most important ingredients in my beetroot salad. It really makes a good contrast with other ingredients. Here is my beetroot salad ingredients: boiled potatoes, boiled carrots, boiled beetroot (slice those all to squares), pickles, red onion (slice both finely), sour cream, mayonnaise, salt, pepper. Yum!
I’m Brazilian and Portuguese and can tell you we don’t use paprika (Hungary 🇭🇺) or jalapeños (Mexico 🇲🇽). We always have farofa with the plantains rice and beans. Never seen what you made in my life except for the garlic 🧄. 🇧🇷🇵🇹🩰
The fact that she made the meals, takes away from the whole point of tasting food from other cultures. There is a lot of room for error. It isnt giving the foods a fair shot.
Yes, the seasoning for the Brazilian food was not something that I would use to make daily meals. Normally we fry chopped garlic and onions in a little bit of oil. These plus salt is the basic seasoning for almost everything. If any pepper is used, it would be back pepper. Most people in Brazil aren’t used to spicy food. But I think that it’s really nice that she tried to make Brazilian food. I’m happy that she is making an effort to know a little more about my country
My mom served school lunches to grade school kids. She told me by far the most popular items were pizza and tatar tots. Salad was available but few of the kids touched it.
As a Mexican Panamanian, you were supposed to cut it with a knife to peel it open. Once you have it peeled you warm them up in oil and when they are done you take them out to smash them from there you put them back in to give it a golden crispy texture. Now what you got is called a patacones.
Those plantains looked scary. I don't see how you were able to take a bite of it. 😂 The apple and beet salad sounds kind of good, with some fresh chives and dill. 😋 The pancakes looked good! I've never had thin pancakes before, besides crepes. This was interesting. Thanks for sharing. ❤
Taz, use a bottle opener to open your jars... it changed my lift. Just pop it under the lid as if it was a bottle and pop it up, then it is so easy to unscrew!
Plantains need to be fried in oil. I cut them in rounds, fry in shallow oil flipping them until they are golden brown, then remove them from the pan and smash each one flat with the bottom of a sturdy cup then back in the oil to fry until the edges are crisp. Remove to kitchen towel and sprinkle with salt while they are still hot 😊
Plantain is easy, cut top and bottom and cut along the edge. Your meant to steam it. It's more of a type of potatoe category. Miso didn't taste of anything when I tried it.
Oh I thought American high school only had those gooey big chocolate chip cookies that you can’t find anywhere as an adult😂 I heard Panera bread had a bit of a dupe😅
