The video is an episode of "Basics with Babish" where the host teaches the fundamentals of cooking sauces. He starts by making a simple salsa, demonstrating techniques such as chopping, dicing, and mincing ingredients. He then moves on to making a red sauce, demonstrating how to sweat aromatics, caramelize onions, and use tomato paste to deepen the flavor. Additionally, he shows how to make a bechamel sauce, which is used as a base for macaroni and cheese. He also demonstrates how to make a bread crumb topping and assemble the macaroni and cheese dish. Finally, he discusses the importance of sauces in cooking and teases next week's episode on steak, where he will show how to make a pan sauce.
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1. The episode is about sauces and their importance in cooking.
2. The host, Babish, starts by making a salsa sauce.
3. To make salsa, Babish chops tomatoes, onions, and jalapenos.
4. He uses a technique to chop the vegetables into consistently sized pieces.
5. Babish adds lime juice, cilantro, and salt to the salsa.
6. He also adds red pepper and mango to the salsa for extra flavor.
7. Babish then moves on to making a red sauce, starting with garlic and olive oil.
8. He adds onion, tomato paste, and canned tomatoes to the sauce.
9. The sauce is simmered for at least an hour to develop the flavors.
10. Babish adds butter to the sauce to deepen the flavor.
11. He also makes a bechamel sauce, a white sauce made with butter, flour, and milk.
12. Babish uses the bechamel sauce to make a macaroni and cheese dish.
13. He adds cheese to the bechamel sauce and stirs until it's melted and smooth.
14. The macaroni and cheese is topped with a bread crumb mixture and baked in the oven.
15. Babish also talks about the importance of deglazing a pan to get the brown bits, which are used to make a pan sauce.
16. He makes a pan sauce by sautéing a shallot, deglazing the pan with red wine, and adding butter to the sauce.
17. The pan sauce is reduced until it's thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
18. Babish adds a squeeze of lemon juice to the pan sauce to brighten the flavors.
19. The episode ends with Babish inviting viewers to cook along with him on his livestream next week.