Making Yogi's: A Delicious and Affordable Challenge

When it comes to cooking, there's nothing quite like the thrill of trying out a new recipe with minimal ingredients. In this case, we decided to take on the challenge of making Yogi's using only what we had on hand. We started by throwing a sweet potato in the oven at 400 degrees for 45 minutes, which resulted in a perfectly cooked and tender vegetable that was ready to use in our sauce.

The secret to extracting moisture from the sweet potato lies in adding salt before cooking it. The natural sugars in the sweet potato are drawn out by the salt, making it easier to mash or puree later on. We also added flour gradually as we mixed the ingredients together, being careful not to overmix and end up with a chewy texture. This gentle folding in of flour allowed us to achieve a light and airy consistency that was perfect for our gnocchi.

The hardest part of making Yogi's came when it was time to scoop out the mixture into individual shapes. The sweet potato had become too sticky, so we resorted to using Dan's hands to form the dough into balls. Unfortunately, this created some uneven shapes, but we were determined to make them work. With a little creativity and patience, we were able to create a set of gnocchi that looked almost like real pillows.

Boiling the gnocchi in water was the next step, and we quickly realized that we needed to season them with more salt before serving. So, we poached one of the gnocchi first to get a cooked stage, and then added it back into the sauce to infuse it with flavor. This technique allowed us to achieve a perfectly seasoned dish without having to add too much salt.

Finally, we were ready to serve our Yogi's up with a side of pasta sauce. We sprinkled in just a little bit of the pasta water to help everything come together, and then served the gnocchi straight from the boiling water into the sauce. The result was a delicious and flavorful dish that was both affordable and creative.

One of the most impressive things about making Yogi's is how easily you can repurpose leftover ingredients. By using garbanzo beans, black beans, and sweet potatoes, we were able to create a dish that was not only tasty but also budget-friendly. The beauty of cooking lies in its ability to bring people together and inspire creativity, and our Yogi's challenge was no exception.

In the end, it's all about finding new ways to use familiar ingredients and having fun with the process. So if you're looking for a recipe that will challenge your culinary skills and satisfy your taste buds, be sure to give Yogi's a try. With a little creativity and some basic pantry staples, you can create a dish that's both delicious and affordable – perfect for any meal.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay number six Monday morning we are past the weekend the weekend was great I went to gluten free feeling really good I think I'll probably continue that on I've got the ingredients for it I just took a nice little morning stroll in the park a sunrise stroll it was glorious today is special I got hit up by this guy Dan Churchill actually Jaime's foodtube that awesome Channel I'm sure you guys have seen it out there it's huge they hit me up and they were saying that this guy Dan wanted to collaborate because he is currently in New York filming something filming a TV show I'm not really sure the cool thing about Dan is that he is a health-food dude meaning actually he had a cookbook I think called dude food but it's all healthy cuisine he's really fit he's really healthy so I said amazing perfect timing bring them over I'm on this vegan challenge let's see what we can do okay we whipped out all the ingredients right here dance getting inspired and what do you think of my man okay so from top my head we use the sweet potato is like the main star do this whether be sweeter naughty or even just cubes but I reckon we make using this sauce we combine all these beautiful textures sauce use that you also use a cheese sauce so the cheese sauce is left over from my mac and cheese you guys have seen that I will thin it out with some of this stuff that you made the ramen star yeah and then finish off with some lemon juice for acidity and combined up with our to four sort of leg news there yeah obviously has a base the onion the garlic salt and pepper and I think I think that'll be pretty badass we think I love it I think the coolest part about the challenge so far to me is that all of the the dishes I start to make cert to inner wine with each other you got the cheese sauce here it's making its way into the gnocchi the ramen stock scrape great way to reuse everything understand just showcases you know you can do things affordably to still make it super tasty super tasty let's do it then take us through this brilliant recipe of the sweet potato okay so we do finally chop some garlic now she scraped it into a paste so I added some salt which extracts the moisture so when you scrape the garlic yeah yeah it was a nice little technique what is it I could smell it once you started scraping if it was delicious bro the onion I because we were working with fewer ingredients I want to get as much flavor out of them as possible to get a really nice fine chop I then fried them both off in some really good olive oil and that was like that was a low and slow you were really caramelizing those things yeah like you were taking very good care of your onions and garlic I did love food a little emotion into them yes a long view allowed the flavors to come develop and extract yeah more deeply but then after that we added in our chickpeas and we wanted to give them nothing Allan's again this guy with just it let that he let the chickpeas Brown bringing out extra nuttiness in the chickpeas that was very that was very unique and then you had your next level maca cheese beans yeah so the mac and cheese sauce from day I guess was like yesterday yesterday we reused that sauce so that was kind of like our cheesy bass felt really nice and then you send it out with a little bit of the ramen stock that I had pretty the vows from day three I think the ramen so that was a nice thinner that added some extra flavor yeah I understand what schools are flavors being there for a few days it had extra time to develop to archers they were they were fully developed yeah there would you are very very mature so we had them in there I then added in the bangs with black beans and seasoned with salt pepper it's the taste and it finished off with just a half of a segment of lamb half of a segment here that I said Dan I only have one freaking Lebanon down through about this mush so he used half of what I had left but it was plenty and it was smart enough to throw in the lemon after as well he took out the seeds but then he threw in the lemon just for extra flavor from the oils from the zest exactly your arms I'm honored you were hot you know loving the fact it's to adding some lemon there hell yeah yeah he was honey would hold on to that like baby that's all I got oh you used up all of the beans which is nice they're done the garbanzo beans black beans over with and that's one of the things like enticing it there's actually quite a meaty flavor despite there being nothing in there you know as I said oh I do love me but I love these kind of dishes that are allowing me to learn the stuff anytime you're making a sauce you got a taste well homicide is important I'm just at that point we were getting pretty excited we were super hungry but we had to make these Yogi's so what we did before we actually started the sauce we just threw a sweet potato in the oven and that was a trick I did a few days ago for the burger it worked out so great it was like a 400 degree oven threw it in we're all know covering and just let it sit in there for like 45 minutes and when it came out just look at that thing it's just that's like it was like ready for okay I can say this is like almost like when you get back from a night out with the go just ready to take I'm just putting out that I was putting out hot she was so that potato was so loose it was just basically just got naked you could have you could have blown a kiss and it would have the force of the kiss would have just taken form the brother was like when the girls were just throwing the brazo my parents said we have the sweet potato ready to to be flower eyes I saw a flower line like that flash tag hashtag flower um so I actually added salt to it to extract more moisture out about the sweet potato has more moisture than you typical one so by adding the salt it extract more moisture reduces the time you're waiting around it also enhances the natural flavor you get out of super data by extracting the moisture that helped when we mixed Rex you don't have to add as much flour and more flour you add the more bland it can can become and so exactly she's going to be careful with that but so adding salt does that and so from there we added flour gradually I mean it cooled down move adding gradually and we'll very carefully as you noted Capcom very careful the way we folded in flour when you're making gnocchi zyv screwed this up so many times I don't know if I've ever gotten her right you have to gently I saw then he was gently working in the flour because once you start over mixing the flour that's when you get a chewy sweet potato they're supposed to be pillows that's how they explain it this guy he nailed it just genetically was folding in flour until it started to become a little sticky a little like like almost almost like a very very light wet dough that's exactly right yeah you can sue for me hands who's still gonna give you a bit of trouble yeah enough to say I love you but eventually comedy out of the balls the hardest part was when we started trying to scoop him out because it was wet we wanted to keep it nice and sticky Dan started forming him with his hands and that was just havoc yeah so we started spooning him out yeah and he just took one spoon and then he scraped it off with the other spoon and those created some nice shapes oh yeah I can the boys of grandmas eat a band we pretty impressive that round missing time so we basically just boiled those for about three minutes yeah until the bad boys want to revise the service and it's always important that to check seasoning on the first one so you actually poach one first because what that does is allows you to get a cooked stage of a gnocchi or a pillared pot goodness and the truth was we tried it and we need it more salt exactly so I was smart and you can't do that when it squat um dole RT yeah Barney everything all the colors yeah then after that we basically just took the gnocchi straight from the boiling water and we pop them right into the sauce the sauce was heating up on the burner dance sprinkled in just a little bit of that of that pasta water just to kind of everything up a little bit boom serve that up at this point we were starving we frickin starving do I hear so so good just so you can do it pretty cheaply done them yeah and the coolest part we were talking about is with the challenge like that you're forced to use ingredients that you have so when would you seem yogi with garbanzo beans and black beans and sweet potatoes but it works that we're really not source you use reusing things he's so awesome like so so many times you create a dish when aspect of that dish you have leftovers of that can be recreated for something else and you know we're just showcasing a simply foldable saucers we used it this yeah we use the mac and cheese we use the ramen oh can we just bond funds you're trying to bond register who's the first shower man my friends because I mean you can't deny good food that's just come on that's fine yeah what do you really bets on who really ignited that kübra I mean two people cooking that's some right there exactly right until some estimate lean upokay number six Monday morning we are past the weekend the weekend was great I went to gluten free feeling really good I think I'll probably continue that on I've got the ingredients for it I just took a nice little morning stroll in the park a sunrise stroll it was glorious today is special I got hit up by this guy Dan Churchill actually Jaime's foodtube that awesome Channel I'm sure you guys have seen it out there it's huge they hit me up and they were saying that this guy Dan wanted to collaborate because he is currently in New York filming something filming a TV show I'm not really sure the cool thing about Dan is that he is a health-food dude meaning actually he had a cookbook I think called dude food but it's all healthy cuisine he's really fit he's really healthy so I said amazing perfect timing bring them over I'm on this vegan challenge let's see what we can do okay we whipped out all the ingredients right here dance getting inspired and what do you think of my man okay so from top my head we use the sweet potato is like the main star do this whether be sweeter naughty or even just cubes but I reckon we make using this sauce we combine all these beautiful textures sauce use that you also use a cheese sauce so the cheese sauce is left over from my mac and cheese you guys have seen that I will thin it out with some of this stuff that you made the ramen star yeah and then finish off with some lemon juice for acidity and combined up with our to four sort of leg news there yeah obviously has a base the onion the garlic salt and pepper and I think I think that'll be pretty badass we think I love it I think the coolest part about the challenge so far to me is that all of the the dishes I start to make cert to inner wine with each other you got the cheese sauce here it's making its way into the gnocchi the ramen stock scrape great way to reuse everything understand just showcases you know you can do things affordably to still make it super tasty super tasty let's do it then take us through this brilliant recipe of the sweet potato okay so we do finally chop some garlic now she scraped it into a paste so I added some salt which extracts the moisture so when you scrape the garlic yeah yeah it was a nice little technique what is it I could smell it once you started scraping if it was delicious bro the onion I because we were working with fewer ingredients I want to get as much flavor out of them as possible to get a really nice fine chop I then fried them both off in some really good olive oil and that was like that was a low and slow you were really caramelizing those things yeah like you were taking very good care of your onions and garlic I did love food a little emotion into them yes a long view allowed the flavors to come develop and extract yeah more deeply but then after that we added in our chickpeas and we wanted to give them nothing Allan's again this guy with just it let that he let the chickpeas Brown bringing out extra nuttiness in the chickpeas that was very that was very unique and then you had your next level maca cheese beans yeah so the mac and cheese sauce from day I guess was like yesterday yesterday we reused that sauce so that was kind of like our cheesy bass felt really nice and then you send it out with a little bit of the ramen stock that I had pretty the vows from day three I think the ramen so that was a nice thinner that added some extra flavor yeah I understand what schools are flavors being there for a few days it had extra time to develop to archers they were they were fully developed yeah there would you are very very mature so we had them in there I then added in the bangs with black beans and seasoned with salt pepper it's the taste and it finished off with just a half of a segment of lamb half of a segment here that I said Dan I only have one freaking Lebanon down through about this mush so he used half of what I had left but it was plenty and it was smart enough to throw in the lemon after as well he took out the seeds but then he threw in the lemon just for extra flavor from the oils from the zest exactly your arms I'm honored you were hot you know loving the fact it's to adding some lemon there hell yeah yeah he was honey would hold on to that like baby that's all I got oh you used up all of the beans which is nice they're done the garbanzo beans black beans over with and that's one of the things like enticing it there's actually quite a meaty flavor despite there being nothing in there you know as I said oh I do love me but I love these kind of dishes that are allowing me to learn the stuff anytime you're making a sauce you got a taste well homicide is important I'm just at that point we were getting pretty excited we were super hungry but we had to make these Yogi's so what we did before we actually started the sauce we just threw a sweet potato in the oven and that was a trick I did a few days ago for the burger it worked out so great it was like a 400 degree oven threw it in we're all know covering and just let it sit in there for like 45 minutes and when it came out just look at that thing it's just that's like it was like ready for okay I can say this is like almost like when you get back from a night out with the go just ready to take I'm just putting out that I was putting out hot she was so that potato was so loose it was just basically just got naked you could have you could have blown a kiss and it would have the force of the kiss would have just taken form the brother was like when the girls were just throwing the brazo my parents said we have the sweet potato ready to to be flower eyes I saw a flower line like that flash tag hashtag flower um so I actually added salt to it to extract more moisture out about the sweet potato has more moisture than you typical one so by adding the salt it extract more moisture reduces the time you're waiting around it also enhances the natural flavor you get out of super data by extracting the moisture that helped when we mixed Rex you don't have to add as much flour and more flour you add the more bland it can can become and so exactly she's going to be careful with that but so adding salt does that and so from there we added flour gradually I mean it cooled down move adding gradually and we'll very carefully as you noted Capcom very careful the way we folded in flour when you're making gnocchi zyv screwed this up so many times I don't know if I've ever gotten her right you have to gently I saw then he was gently working in the flour because once you start over mixing the flour that's when you get a chewy sweet potato they're supposed to be pillows that's how they explain it this guy he nailed it just genetically was folding in flour until it started to become a little sticky a little like like almost almost like a very very light wet dough that's exactly right yeah you can sue for me hands who's still gonna give you a bit of trouble yeah enough to say I love you but eventually comedy out of the balls the hardest part was when we started trying to scoop him out because it was wet we wanted to keep it nice and sticky Dan started forming him with his hands and that was just havoc yeah so we started spooning him out yeah and he just took one spoon and then he scraped it off with the other spoon and those created some nice shapes oh yeah I can the boys of grandmas eat a band we pretty impressive that round missing time so we basically just boiled those for about three minutes yeah until the bad boys want to revise the service and it's always important that to check seasoning on the first one so you actually poach one first because what that does is allows you to get a cooked stage of a gnocchi or a pillared pot goodness and the truth was we tried it and we need it more salt exactly so I was smart and you can't do that when it squat um dole RT yeah Barney everything all the colors yeah then after that we basically just took the gnocchi straight from the boiling water and we pop them right into the sauce the sauce was heating up on the burner dance sprinkled in just a little bit of that of that pasta water just to kind of everything up a little bit boom serve that up at this point we were starving we frickin starving do I hear so so good just so you can do it pretty cheaply done them yeah and the coolest part we were talking about is with the challenge like that you're forced to use ingredients that you have so when would you seem yogi with garbanzo beans and black beans and sweet potatoes but it works that we're really not source you use reusing things he's so awesome like so so many times you create a dish when aspect of that dish you have leftovers of that can be recreated for something else and you know we're just showcasing a simply foldable saucers we used it this yeah we use the mac and cheese we use the ramen oh can we just bond funds you're trying to bond register who's the first shower man my friends because I mean you can't deny good food that's just come on that's fine yeah what do you really bets on who really ignited that kübra I mean two people cooking that's some right there exactly right until some estimate lean up\n"