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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.

 Sam Talbot's Harissa Halibut and Wonton Wrappers

Step 1: Harissa - Toast Your Spices
Add seeds to small sauté pan over high-heat. Shake seeds around pan to avoid burning for about 20 seconds. Add coriander in the last 10 seconds. Transfer seed mixture to mortar and grind mixture to a powder.

Step 2: Harissa - Blend Together
Transfer powder to a blender along with peppers, garlic, chili’s salt and pepper. Pour into a bowl and mix with yogurt.

Step 3: Harissa Halibut
Spoon harissa over 2 pieces of halibut. Drizzle olive oil, salt and pepper. Bake at 400 degrees for about 15 minutes

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

  • 2 tablespoons Cumin Seeds
  • 2 tablespoons Caraway Seeds
  • 2 tablespoons Ground Coriander
  • 1 cup Roasted Red Peppers in Oil
  • 2 cloves Garlic
  • 2 small Arbol Chiles
  • 2 tablespoons Salt and Pepper
  • 1/2 cup Yogurt
  • Olive Oil
  • Halibut Filets

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gabigrillo

These 2 recipes look absolutely DELISH!! Thanks for sharing. :)

November 20 2012 at 1:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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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