In this video, the creator of the YouTube channel "Binging with Babish" focuses on creating the perfect bite of food inspired by the TV show "You" and Penn Badgley's character, Joe Goldberg. The dish is a roasted chicken with crispy potatoes, carrots, and a balsamic reduction. To make it, Babish starts with a high-quality heritage chicken, air-chilled to achieve a crisper skin. He then butterflies the chicken, separates the skin from the meat, and stuffs it with compound butter flavored with parsley, rosemary, and thyme. The chicken is roasted in the oven on a bed of garlic and lemon slices.
For the sides, Babish prepares crispy potatoes by boiling them and then smashing them to create more surface area. He cooks them in hot oil until crispy, seasons them with kosher salt and black pepper, and adds a flavor paste made with fried garlic, lemon zest, and herbs. The carrots are simple to prepare, requiring only peeling, chopping, and roasting in the oven with olive oil, kosher salt, and black pepper.
After plating the dish, Babish and his guest, Jess, taste it and decide that while it's delicious, the balsamic reduction overpowers the other flavors. Jess reveals that her perfect bite would include duck and carbonara, so Babish sets out to create a duck carbonara.
To make the duck carbonara, Babish cures duck egg yolks in a mixture of kosher salt and sugar, then dries them in a low oven or dehydrator to create a grateable, cheese-like texture. He also cures duck breasts in a mixture of kosher salt, sugar, maple syrup, and pink curing salt, then smokes them to create duck bacon. Babish makes pasta dough with all-purpose and durum semolina flours, then extrudes it into a preferred shape. He cooks the pasta, adds it to a pan with the duck bacon, and creates a creamy sauce by mixing in the cured egg yolks, pecorino romano cheese, and black pepper.
After tasting the duck carbonara, Jess declares it her perfect bite, praising the combination of flavors and textures.
1. The show is called "Binging with Babish".
2. The host is making a dish from the show "You".
3. The dish is a roast chicken with crispy potatoes and carrots.
4. The host is using a heritage chicken with bright yellow skin.
5. The chicken was air-chilled, which will help to get a crisper skin.
6. The host is separating the skin from the meat to stuff it with compound butter.
7. The compound butter is made with chopped fresh parsley, rosemary, and thyme, along with kosher salt and black pepper.
8. The chicken is roasted on a bed of halved heads of garlic and slices of lemon.
9. The potatoes are cooked by boiling them in cold water and then smashing them to get a crispy exterior.
10. The carrots are roasted in the oven with olive oil, kosher salt, and black pepper.
11. The host is making a balsamic reduction to serve with the dish.
12. The host is using duck to make a different dish, a duck carbonara.
13. The duck carbonara includes duck egg pasta, duck bacon, and a carbonara custard.
14. The host is curing duck egg yolks to use in the carbonara custard.
15. The host is using a pasta extruder to make the duck egg pasta.
16. The duck bacon is made by curing duck breasts with kosher salt, sugar, and pink curing salt.
17. The duck bacon is smoked over cherry and apple wood chips.
18. The carbonara custard is made with duck eggs, pecorino romano cheese, and black pepper.
19. The dish is finished with a sprinkle of cured duck egg yolks and a drizzle of champagne.