- Possibly make,

- Such a wonder?

- [Woman] Pork Roast!

- Well, I can tell you.

This here is actually a potato.

I wrapped it with some thick cut bacon I had for tomorrow's breakfast.

It's what I call a Pseudo Pork Roast.

- Did he say a potato?

- A Pseudo?

- Pork Roast?

- Hey, what's up guys.

Welcome back to Anime with Alvin, where today, we're gonna be taking a look at the Gotcha Pork Roast from Food Wars.

This is a potato.

This is my hands.

This is a nice potato.

I like this potato.

Let's turn it into pork, little buddy.

So to start,

I'm gonna cut these potatoes into pretty large chunks.

You know, it doesn't have to be exact.

I do not know how to measure potatoes.

We have some very, very large chunks.

Now we're gonna take a steamer basket, put in a large stainless steel pot, fill it up with water and get all these little potato buddies in there.

Because we're gonna turn these into chunky mashed potatoes.

Now turning on the heat, get the water up to a simmer and let these guys steam, until they're completely tender, 15 to 20 minutes.

Plenty of time to finally chop up an onion.

My knife skills are definitely not as good as Yukihira Soma from the anime, but I will do my best.

These are two King trumpet mushrooms, very fibrous to soak up the fat, which are notorious for power struggles.

I'm the King, I'm the King.

I will beat you and take your family.

Anyways, I'm also gonna give these a fine mince till they're really, really small, cause we don't want a big chunks of mushroom.

We wanna nice meat like texture.

After that, we're gonna mince up two cloves of garlic.

I'm putting them in a garlic press because I'm very lazy.

And I like machines when they can do my work for me.

Now that your potatoes are steamed, I'm gonna check them with a pairing knife.

Oh, no resistance when stabbed, just like me.

And now, we're gonna take them off the heat.

I'm gonna bring them to the worktop, so we can put them on the table.

Let them cool off a bit, cause we're gonna peel them.

But I don't have all day to peel potatoes like, some loser.

So I'm just gonna use what they do in the anime.

So a wave of a hand, watchu!

All the potatoes are peeled.

Yo, you're not a loser, If you peel your potatoes with your hand, sorry about that.

After the potatoes are peeled, I'm gonna transfer them into a large mixing bowl, where I'm going to start to mash them.

This is a Japanese wooden pestle, made out of bamboo.

Not sure if it's Amazon, but works really well, just like Soma uses it in his recipe.

All right, now that these are mashed and chunky, I wanna start cooking the mushrooms and onions.

Get a large carbon steel wok, over high heat.

Couple of tablespoons of butter.

I like butter.

And the mushroom, ah, sorry.

These are actually onions.

Now the mushrooms go in, gonna stir fry these, get a nice color on the outside.

And then we're gonna add the garlic, and cook these until they get a nice brown color all around the outside.

Great, now that they're all done, I'm gonna transfer this mixture into the potatoes, put on some gloves and it look really cool with them on.

Sprinkle some salt from a very high altitude.

And vigorously, need the mixture to develop the potato starch so that it gives it a firmer, more meat like texture.

And after that, I'm going to take a large sheet of saran wrap, put a big chunk of potato.

This is now my potato baby, wrap up the potato baby.

I wanna name this baby.

You shall be called, Bob.

We're gonna twirl Bob, and roll him around onto the table until he looks like, wow, this looks like, just a big potato now.

Bob is a nice potato.

Now, Bob is gonna go in the fridge.

While Bob is chilling out, we're going to lay down two sheets of plastic wrap onto which we're gonna shingle some nice thick center cut bacon.

Gently lay the strips of bacon down.

So bacon is what's used in this recipe, because Soma apparently only had bacon as the meat source because he went grocery shopping earlier that morning.

So we're gonna do the same.

Approximately, 5 x 9, should be the right shape for us.

Oops, just kidding.

I meant eight and now above is fully chilled.

We're gonna slowly twirl them out.

Sorry, Bob, and gently lay him down onto this bed of beautiful bacon.

Just kidding, 7 x 5.

I put too much bacon on this.

And now, besides the bacon will be gently caressed onto Bobs face.

Oh, this is a lot of bacon.

Bob is a bigger baby than we thought.

So we're gonna have to put another strip of bacon to seal up his butt, to get Bob snug in a bacon rogue.

We're gonna use a technique used in Beef Wellington, which is using the plastic wrap and wrapping it up around his small body.

So Bubs headed into the freezer to set up for about 10 minutes.

During which time, we're gonna lay out a couple of links of butcher's twine, so as he comes out, you can tie him up like the, like the bad boy he is.

Now we're gonna take him out, and lay him gently on the bed of butcher's twine, so we can tie him up, very gently though.

I'm not Christian Grey.

We're tying it up just to the bacon in place.

Very loosely.

Do you wanna learn how to tie a butcher's knot?

Watch a YouTube video, that's what I did.

I'm gonna stem off these loose edges.

I don't want them getting all over the meat and just a couple more knots and we have a nice tight up Bob.

Good job, Bob.

The next step, is to bring in some Rosemary, which should cut into little pieces, and slide them right underneath the butcher's twine.

So it's gently caressing and perfuming the bacon.

Nice, now we're gonna put Bob into a 400 degree oven for around 30 minutes until the bacon is crisp, and everything smells amazing.

(whispering) Wow.

Now we're gonna let Bob rest, for about 10 minutes.

Perfect amount of time to make a red wine sauce.

Into a hot pan, we're gonna dump into 150 ml of a dry red wine, 75 ml of a sweet sake, and 10 ml of soy sauce.

Give that a nice whisk, until everybody's combined, and we're gonna let them reduce until it's a nice syrup.

We're gonna turn the heat all the way down.

We're gonna add some cold butter.

This is called mounting the sauce and we're going to whisk rigorously, until it butter is emulsified and the sauce is glossy.

And we're going to keep this warm, until we're ready to use.

Meanwhile, Bob is begging to be released from his knots.

So I'm gonna untie him, and we're gonna transfer him slowly onto a plate.

Yatah!

We're gonna smother this all over with our red wine sauce.

Ooh, that looks good.

I need that.

(whispers) Nice.

And to finish, were gonna garnish with a little bit of watercress, just to be healthy.

And there you have it, The Gotcha Pork Roast from Shokugeki no Soma

I'm gonna cut him open just take a look at that cross section.

just take a look at that cross section.

Ooh, look at that steam out.

Ah, yes, that looks just like the anime.

Pretty cool.

I could have ended this, and give it a try.

Get some of that wine sauce, all over the bacon.

Oh, struggling a little bit.

And it turned out really good.

It didn't trick me into thinking it was pork but, I think it would make a great side for a steak dinner.

And the red wine sauce, really adds.

- Dude. Alvin, what are you doing?

It's three in the morning.

- What else? I'm cooking.

- You're in my house, man.

- But I made you a Pork Roast.

- Oh, if you made me a Pork Roast I'm gonna try some obviously, we'll address the whole how you got in here, later.

It's pretty good Pork Roast, dude.

- Gotcha! It's not Pork.

It's potatoes.

Happy April Fools.

- Wow. Yeah, you really fooled me.

So do you have a key or something?

Uh, anyway, see you later, dude, bye.

- Well, I'm certainly not gonna let this delicious Potato Pork loaf go to waste.

Not in my house.

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