Plating Sesame Noodles

Video Transcript

"Then we are going to put it in with our noodles. I love this little tool because you get every last drop. Now this dish is best served chilled and it is cold salad so you will want to chill it before eating it but you can see on this except for the time that it takes you to boil the noodles and again you can use any leftover pasta, it takes maybe even 10 minutes to make so I'm just stirring it again and again you know when you think you go to a Chinese restaurant and it is eight or nine dollars for a tiny little serving and to make these things at home it is just a fraction of the cost. I kind of think it actually tastes better. So I'm just stirring it in. Always make sure when you are working with pasta especially for a cold salad that you drain it really well because you don't want any additional water in the dish. We will want to chill this but I'm still going to show you how I would serve it. Now it is sesame peanut noodles. I have already added the sesame oil but I want to add more sesame seeds to this. Now I was going to show you how to toast sesame seeds because toasting or roasting whether it is seeds or nuts brings out the flavor in them and then as luck would have it I found them already toasted in the store so why not it is much easier. I'm going to put in 1/3 of a cup. Sesame seeds have a lot of calcium, a lot of protein. They are really good for you if you eat things like humus which is made of tahini. Tahini is made of sesame seeds. So right now it looks kind of dull and that is why I love adding things like sliced carrots or broccoli to give it color but we are going to dress it up a little bit by using scallions which are green and will be pretty. So as I have mentioned those of you that watch my show regularly as I have said before when you have a cutting board always stabilize it with something that is not going to move. If you don't have a piece of this material a wet towel will do fine. These are green onions or scallions and you always want to cut the ends off. The rest of them, the green and the white part is highly edible. Now you can cut them any way you want but it is really pretty when you cut things on the diagonal. Having taught the blind at the Braille Institute again I always look for ways that are easier for the blind which turn out to be easier for everybody and if they are going to cut themselves they are probably going to cut themselves with a knife as are most of us. But you can get a pair of scissors at the 99 cent store and just make sure that they are the ones that are used for cooking or if you have you know, $50 kitchen sheers that is fine but for cutting herbs or cutting scallions I find it is just so much easier just to use the scissors."