0:02 king of the grill even though we're not
0:03 grilling today
0:05 what's up everyone i'm alan thrall and today
0:06 today
0:08 we're gonna make something i love making
0:10 i make this probably once a week
0:14 sausage chicken and rice
0:15 and i like this meal for a few reasons
0:17 number one it tastes good
0:21 number two it can be eaten as leftovers
0:24 and number three it uses pretty much one
0:25 pan or one pot
0:28 so less dishes to clean and i made this
0:29 one day for
0:32 joey zap mary he ate the whole plate
0:35 scarfed it down and then said hey dude
0:36 can i please have some more
0:40 joey loves this stuff so
0:43 let's start first we're gonna do uh
0:46 chicken thighs so the two meats for this
0:50 chicken thighs and sausage
0:51 so you don't have to use these two meats
0:53 really you can use any meat
0:56 you could use ground turkey ground bison
0:59 ground beef these aren't the best
1:01 for macros if you're trying to watch
1:03 your calories but if you're making this dish
1:03 dish
1:05 for friends and family use the chicken
1:07 thighs and sausage because it tastes the
1:08 best i think
1:09 so i'm gonna start out already rinse
1:11 this chicken i'm gonna start off by just
1:11 cutting these
1:14 up into chunks and i'm just gonna do it
1:16 right in the same package that the
1:18 chicken came in so i don't have to wash
1:26 more dishes
1:28 i'm gonna season this chicken and you
1:30 can you can use whatever seasoning you want
1:30 want
1:34 uh salt and pepper really whatever
1:35 pre-made season you want salt and
1:36 peppers and mustard
1:38 i'm gonna use salt pepper which is this
1:39 here my barbecue
1:43 salt pepper seasoning and garlic powder
1:45 smoked paprika so those are the
1:46 seasonings i'm gonna use so
2:08 you're going to need a big pan because
2:09 there's going to be a lot of food in here
2:10 here
2:13 so don't use a small saute pan big pan
2:15 or even a large pot i guess you could do that
2:16 that
2:30 and now we're going to use sausage so
2:31 you can use
2:35 you can get a cooked sausage fully
2:36 cooked sausage and just slice it up
2:38 and then throw it in at the end this is
2:40 not cooked sausage
2:41 and i'm actually not going to use the
2:43 casing i'm just going to use the sausage
2:44 meat inside of it
2:46 if you want to just again get a pack of ground
2:47 ground
2:50 sausage meat you can do that whatever
2:50 you want
2:53 these were just cheap and they taste
2:54 good so
2:55 you take yourself one of these wieners
2:57 here you just slice
3:08 all right so i'm going to let this
3:11 chicken continue to go get a nice sear
3:11 on it
3:26 [Music]
3:28 so i've made this recipe before i
3:29 actually made it last year
3:31 it's a video called quarantine cooking
3:32 but i made it with
3:35 all i don't think i use chicken i just
3:36 use a sausage because that was all that was
3:37 was
3:38 available in the grocery store all the
3:40 meat was sold out
3:43 and i used all canned products
3:45 so if you tried that recipe and you
3:46 liked it try it with all these fresh ingredients
3:47 ingredients
3:50 and with chicken thighs much better than
3:52 the quarantine version
3:54 so you can just toss it in break it up
3:56 with the
4:14 okay i'm gonna show you guys how to cut
4:16 an onion how to chop an onion
4:18 so this is our weird looking yellow onion
4:20 onion
4:22 i don't know what happened to it this is
4:24 how you chop an onion easiest way to
4:25 chop it on you john
4:26 you're gonna take this is the top and
4:29 the bottom right this would be the sides
4:31 top and bottom you're gonna go from top
4:32 to bottom
4:36 just like this okay
4:38 and then what you'll do is this is the
4:40 the root part
4:42 that would be the top so you're going to
4:49 you can toss that attempt to
5:02 now what you're going to do is uh this knife
5:03 knife
5:04 needs to be sharpened this is a dull
5:06 knife what you'll do is
5:09 you got your root end here
5:10 you're going to slice into it this way
5:12 two slices so you have one here
5:14 and then one a little lower so you put
5:15 your fingers
5:17 on the onion just a slice not all the
5:18 way through
5:20 so you're going right about there and
5:22 then another slice
5:26 with this dull knife right here
5:28 okay so we got there and there then
5:30 you're just going to go
5:38 down on the top
5:41 boom so you got slices this way and this way
5:42 way
5:43 and then you're just gonna slice like this
5:54 and once it gets to be a little too tall
6:23 now we're going to take a bell pepper
6:25 you can use a green one
6:28 a red one a yellow one does not matter
6:30 i also like to use celery if you have
6:55 [Music]
6:57 you could take all this out all the meat
6:59 out and then cook the vegetables
7:01 but i don't want to dirty another pot or
7:03 another pan or plate
7:05 as few dishes as possible so i'm just
7:19 you don't have to worry too much about
7:22 the meat being fully cooked it should be
7:24 seared but it shouldn't doesn't need to
7:25 be fully cooked because this is going to
7:26 cook for a long time
7:27 so the chicken and the sausage i don't
7:29 have to worry about the
7:31 ready to eat right now because we're
7:33 going to sit in here for quite a while
7:35 for these vegetables and when we cook
7:37 the rice in this dish
7:38 another reason i like this dish that i
7:40 didn't mention at the start
7:42 is it really doesn't require any
7:44 culinary skill
7:47 if you can chop an onion and a bell pepper
7:48 pepper
7:51 i think you'll be good or even if you
7:52 can't chop
7:59 i would use that if i had one okay i'm
8:00 gonna throw in some garlic
8:04 now fresh garlic is always better
8:07 but i use garlic i cook with garlic
8:08 every time i'm cooking i feel like i use garlic
8:09 garlic
8:10 and it's just way more convenient to
8:11 have this rather than peeling and chopping
8:12 chopping
8:14 a bunch of cloves of garlic and i use
8:15 quite a bit so
8:19 i would say two or three
8:23 knife tips that's good enough
8:25 the thing about cooking it doesn't have
8:28 to be precise doesn't have to be exact
8:29 just add a little more or less of what
8:31 you want or what you don't like
8:33 it's kind of like lifting weights the
8:35 only way that you're going to get better
8:38 at lifting weights is to actually do it
8:40 cooking's the same way you got to cook
8:41 you got to practice you got to make mistakes
8:41 mistakes
8:44 learn what works what doesn't to get
8:45 better at cooking
8:47 you know you could go online and watch
8:49 videos about how to squat how to
8:51 deadlift you can read about programming
8:53 and you could know understand all of it
8:55 but you might not be very good at it if
8:56 you don't have much experience
8:58 doing it same way with cooking everyone
8:59 wants a certain
9:02 recipe to exactly follow that can be
9:03 helpful but
9:04 when it comes down to it you just got to
9:06 get in the kitchen get in the kitchen and
9:07 and
9:22 about this much
9:24 i'm gonna say it's good i mean you could
9:25 add a little bit of salt a little bit of pepper
9:26 pepper
9:28 because we didn't we didn't season the
9:30 vegetables but i feel like the sausage
9:32 and the chicken are salty enough
9:34 and we're gonna be adding chicken stock
9:36 so i think there's plenty of salt
9:38 we don't have to add any more here okay
9:40 so i'm just going to wait until these
9:43 onions are kind of translucent
9:46 clear they kind of disappear in the dish
9:50 and then we'll go on to the next step
9:52 if you are handling raw chicken or raw meat
9:54 meat
9:56 in any way that wooden spoon when i was
9:57 stirring around the raw chicken
9:59 i made sure to wash it wash it
10:02 afterwards you should
10:05 just be careful of cross contamination
10:08 one time uh i won't say his name
10:11 uh but i was john knows who he is but i
10:12 was at a uh i was at his house and he was
10:13 was
10:16 barbecuing for us and he was he had
10:18 tongs barbecue tongs
10:20 and he's uh he's flipping the chicken
10:22 that's pretty much done
10:24 he's about to take it off the grill but
10:25 he's also adding chicken to it so he's
10:26 got his
10:29 uh tray of raw chicken and he's using
10:31 these tongs grabs raw chicken puts it on
10:32 the grill
10:34 flips the cooked chicken grabs some raw
10:36 chicken puts on flips the cooked chicken
10:37 and he's doing that and then he he
10:39 realizes the chicken's done so he takes
10:41 the with the raw chicken tongs
10:42 he grabs all the chicken pieces that are
10:44 done and puts them on a plate and he's
10:46 like chicken's ready and
10:48 uh i'm so i'm just watching him i ate
10:49 the chicken but i'm watching him like
10:50 dude you're
10:53 slopping the tongs up in raw chicken anyways
10:54 anyways
10:57 and next you're gonna grab some white wine
10:58 wine
11:00 i don't even know what this is filled
11:02 peanut grigio
11:04 pinot grigio so a little white wine you
11:06 don't have to use white wine you can use
11:09 beer you can use wine i mean not water
11:12 you could use uh chicken stock but
11:14 you're just going to deglaze the pan so
11:15 what i'm going to do is
11:16 there's actually quite a bit of fat in
11:18 here but if you just throw a little bit
11:20 of that down
11:22 it's going to start bubbling boiling and
11:24 it's going to help you get those
11:29 chunks off of the pan
11:30 and if you let that cook it'll start to evaporate
11:37 so you see how quickly that uh evaporated
11:38 evaporated
11:43 all that wine that moisture just helps
11:58 this is jasmine rice and
12:04 and let that rice soak up some of the flavor
12:11 let that rice cook in there just for a
12:13 couple minutes [Music]
12:20 okay let this sit for about a minute and
12:22 then i'll stir it over
12:24 let the rice kind of char i'll stir it
12:26 around and then we're ready to add some liquid
12:26 liquid
12:27 and cook the rice [Music]
12:37 so you want to add two parts liquid for
12:38 one part rice
12:40 i did two cups of rice i'm gonna do four
12:41 cups of chicken stock
12:44 and this box of chicken stock is
12:46 conveniently four cups
12:53 i'm just going to dump it in here
12:56 okay now i'm not going to stir this too
12:57 much i'm just going to kind of
12:59 even it out you don't need to stir too
13:00 much because you don't want to rinse off
13:03 that starch if you watched my last
13:05 meal prep video about rinsing the rice
13:06 to make sticky rice you don't need to
13:08 make really sticky rice and do this so
13:09 you don't need to
13:12 mix this around too much just chop it up
13:13 a little bit so it's
13:15 even around the pan and then i'm going
13:16 to wait until this
13:19 kind of starts to boil and at that point
13:30 i'm gonna turn this down to medium low
13:35 like a rpe 3.5 out of 10
13:37 and then i'm going to slap this on and
13:39 we're going to sit for
13:43 uh 15 minutes while the rice is cooking
13:46 i'm gonna chop up some green onions and
13:47 parsley so
13:50 a little tip is put your herbs in a
13:52 cup of water and they'll last longer however
13:53 however
13:56 this parsley is not looking very good so
13:57 maybe it doesn't work as well as i thought
13:58 thought
14:00 so i'm going to take some of this sorry parsley
14:02 parsley
14:11 chopping up this sorry parsley
14:17 sitting here me and my dog marley
14:20 john you thirsty you want a beer hops
14:29 look at the time better get to the gym swerving
14:30 swerving
14:37 living in a van down by the river call
14:44 so i'm just to take some of this sorry parsley
14:45 parsley
14:47 chop it up and this is going to go in
14:50 once i check the rice at 15 minutes
14:56 if you want to use dried parsley you can
14:58 just fresh parsley pretty much looks
15:09 so john are you going to world's
15:12 strongest man no it's in sacramento
15:14 and then just open it up to spectators
15:15 did you hear that
15:19 yep but you have to get your slots
15:21 you can't just show up i got a few slots
15:23 just based on my availability
15:26 i'm going uh tuesday wednesday which are qualifiers
15:27 qualifiers
15:30 and then sunday for the atlas stones
15:31 i'll be there
15:34 they got a lot of strict restrictions though
15:35 though
15:36 it says no when you get your tickets it
15:38 says no
15:40 camera equipment so i can't bring this
15:42 uh and it says no
15:44 video or picture so i'm sure you can't
15:46 record or do anything on your iphone either
15:47 either
15:49 um so anyways i'll go but i'm not gonna
15:50 be able to
15:53 document any of it okay and i'm going to
15:55 take these
15:58 little baby cherry tomatoes and just
16:00 however many i want
16:08 i'm going to slice them all in half
16:11 okay so we got about that much parsley
16:12 that much
16:14 tomato and that much green onion we're
16:16 gonna wait till it's rice is done
16:19 okay 15 minutes and take a look at it
16:22 okay so we are still bubbling looks like
16:23 it's cooking a little more over here so
16:25 i'm going to move it this way
16:32 add in of course this is my cooking show
16:34 so i'll do whatever i want
17:02 [Music]
17:12 actually add the tomatoes at the very
17:14 end so the tomatoes are warm
17:16 but i don't want to add them too early
17:17 because i don't want to turn them to mush
17:44 five minutes as long as five minutes of
17:49 alright see i told you i ain't got no
17:52 recipe i'm just kind of winging it
17:54 and uh when it's done it's done take me
18:15 there it is sausage rice chicken dish
18:18 eat your heart out martha stewart thanks
18:19 for watching i'll probably do a couple
18:20 more of these
18:27 and if you'd like you can add your