The video showcases creative ways to reuse food scraps and leftovers to reduce waste and create delicious dishes. The host shares recipes and techniques for using scraps such as basil stems, lemon trimmings, cilantro branches, and vegetable peels to make aromatic vinegar, sauces, and seasonings. They also demonstrate how to make a tasty summer drink using purple basil, a vegetable broth using leftover vegetables, and crispy potato chips from potato peels. Additionally, the host shows how to repurpose cabbage cores and carrot tops into cutlets and stews. The video concludes with a recipe for bagels made from pickle brine dough, highlighting the versatility of using leftover ingredients to create something new and delicious.
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1. The speaker uses basil stems to make aromatic vinegar.
2. The speaker uses lemon trimmings to make aromatic vinegar.
3. The speaker combines lemon trimmings, basil stems, and cloves in a jar, covers it with 9% table vinegar, and lets it sit in a cool, dark place for 20 days.
4. The aromatic vinegar can be used for dressing salads or preparing marinades.
5. The speaker uses cilantro branches to make an aromatic sauce.
6. The speaker removes the roots from cilantro branches, blends them with olive oil, and uses the sauce in salad dressings, marinades, and sauces.
7. The speaker uses a mixture of tomato paste, water, cilantro sauce, khmeli-suneli seasoning, black pepper, garlic, and apple cider vinegar to make a barbecue sauce.
8. The speaker freezes the cilantro sauce in ice cube trays for later use.
9. The speaker uses dill stems to make a seasoning by drying and chopping them, then mixing them with salt.
10. The speaker uses leftover vegetables, including celery, carrot trimmings, and onion pieces, to make a vegetable broth.
11. The speaker adds black peppercorns and salt to the vegetable broth while it cooks.
12. The speaker strains the vegetable broth after 20 minutes of cooking.
13. The speaker uses the vegetable broth to make sauces or adds it to dough instead of water.
14. The speaker freezes the vegetable broth for later use.
15. The speaker uses scraps of new potatoes to make potato chips by adding aromatic herbs, paprika, garlic, salt, and butter, then baking them in the oven.
16. The speaker uses cabbage leaves to make cutlets by chopping them, adding minced meat, egg, salt, and pepper, then frying them in a pan.
17. The speaker uses brine from pickled cucumbers to make dough for flatbreads or bagels.
18. The speaker adds sugar, vegetable oil, flour, and baking powder to the brine to make a dough for bagels.
19. The speaker bakes the bagels in the oven at 200 degrees for 25-30 minutes.