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Exploring the Ethnic Aisle

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If you're looking for a way to spice up your meals, try traditional ethnic food. With just a few ingredients that are available in any supermarket's ethnic aisle, you can add creativity and depth to the flavor of your food. Here, Sam Talbot shows you how to utilize harissa and wonton wrappers to create two tasty and easy dishes.

Step 1: Toast Your Spices
Toast cumin and caraway seeds in a pan for 20 seconds on high heat. Add coriander and toast for a few seconds more. Grind spices in a mortar and pestle.

Step 2: Blend Together
Blend spices with roasted red peppers, garlic, arbol chile peppers, salt and cracked black pepper to make your harissa paste.

Step 3: Harissa Halibut
Mix a half cup of harissa with some yogurt. Add olive oil and black pepper to the top of your halibut filets and then spoon the harissa yogurt on top, covering them completely. Bake at 15 minutes at 400 degrees.

Step 4: Wonton Wrappers
Place wonton wrappers on parchment paper and a baking sheet. Brush olive oil on your wrappers and season with salt. Bake at 350 degrees for about 8 minutes, or until golden brown.

Step 5: Sam's Crab Salad Wontons
Mix peekytoe crab, corn, cucumber, lime juice, olive oil, cilantro and salt and pepper. Spoon the crab salad on one wonton wrapper and then top with another to create a Napoleon effect. Enjoy!

Items You'll Need for this GMC Trade Secret

  • Cumin
  • Caraway Seeds
  • Ground Coriander
  • Roasted Red Peppers in Oil
  • Garlic
  • Arbol Chiles
  • Salt and Pepper
  • Yogurt
  • Olive Oil
  • Halibut Filets

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MaryLou

Sounds like one of my grand Mothers receipes ---but she was Lebonese

February 19 2012 at 6:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
azizalsaqr

Pick up a bag of Vegeta seasonings, I first started using it after getting a Croatian cookbook and seeing it called for in many recipes, now I use it for everything from soups to potroast.

January 08 2012 at 3:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dickn2000b

This is the third video with this guy I've commented on today. What was the deal with the mortar and pestle? Was it to show us he knew what one was? The next thing he did was put the spices into a blender. Why not just put them in the blender and give them a few seconds before adding the peppers and garlic? He seems to be just another pretentious hack with little talent and experience hired by the Huffpost Trainwreck.

January 08 2012 at 3:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
yojodunn

It must be an AOL thing , as this guy does not want to give out written guids , so you must subscribe to something , no!!

January 08 2012 at 2:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Darryl Ehlers

Hi folks could someone send me the reciept for his pancakes it did not show Darryl

January 08 2012 at 12:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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