Cooking Indian Food with Arun Kumar - Food Vlog for English Learners - Learn English w/ Camille (1)

Uh what's your channel name?

Learn english with Camille.

We are going to do a video today where my friend Arun who also has a Youtube channel

is going to cook Indian food, and anyone that knows me knows that I love Indian food.

All right, you're good.

We arrived at Arun's house, this is Arun.

Thank you so much for being here, or for letting me be here with you.

You're most welcome and I love when people come over.

Yes and Arun is going to teach me a bit in the kitchen today.

He has a Youtube channel "Cooking with Arun Kumar" and he is an amazing chef, so I'm super

excited today also to hear some of his story, how he got here to America, how he learned

English and also to eat some delicious food.

So what are we cooking today?

So I'm cooking, it's called, uh I don't know, I'm just, I create my own recipes.

So yeah so I'm making it's called Indo-kabuli rice like pulao this is like has Afghanistani

taste with Indian.

Yeah that's amazing.

And Indian also.

Yeah the spices smell so good.

Thanks.

What are the main spices that you use when you cook Indian food?

Okay, so for Indian food there's a bunch of different spices.

So cumin, cinnamon, clove, cardamom, and turmeric, garam masala.

Yeah yeah.

So like turmeric, cumin, chili powder, garam masala, these are like basic meals and ginger,

garlic, fresh ginger, garlic, onion.

We just, so these are all very healthy spices actually.

Yes if you eat like this nicely, like if you cook like good way, like in healthy way, it

I'm ready to try.

will this would be uh should be very healthy.

Can you pour, okay maybe like around two table, three tablespoon, of oil, or just uh you can

measure in your, you know little more, more, yeah that's good.

Okay, you don't measure anything do you?

Yeah, we don't do, I just do, but I know how much is it, so I just tell you, okay this

is one teaspoon, or one tablespoon.

Yes.

Okay so we'll wait for oil to get hot.

Okay, so when oil is hot, so we're gonna start with the whole spices, so you can hold this,

so we're gonna start with the cinnamon, and then clove.

We just started with the oil, so three tablespoons of olive oil, and now we're putting some clove,

uh sorry, some cinnamon, cinnamon stick, like three, four, all the cloves and six clove,

whole cloves, and after that we put some uh one teaspoon of uh cumin seed.

Yeah and for yeah that's it right now, and let's uh wow maybe like in a ten second I'm

gonna put some onion.

Okay so now we're gonna add some onion here, like I'm gonna add just like half onion, and

yeah and I'm gonna keep, just gonna save this for later.

Okay so how long have you been here in America?

uh like I can say, I'm like kind of in and out the last

seven years. Seven years?

Okay and did you know English before coming?

Yeah I do know that time, uh because uh, when I was in India, so we had like lots of uh

international student, they come when I'm working.

Yeah, so they come so we show them around, like you know and leave them, so I like practice

my English with them, so.

Okay.

I studied English in school they don't teach English like all, so they only have one like a subject, like

40 minutes in a day.

Like basic English channel, you know, when you go into college and all then you can learn more.

I studied in a school, but we don't get, like. I study in a government school, but in government

But uh but lots of even like, uh it's true in India they study english medium and all

but they don't stick, there's no practice.

Okay yeah so I don't have any practice that time.

What is your official language then?

Uh Hindi is my mother tongue. Okay!

Yeah and because in India, every Indian speaks at least four or five different languages.

Wow, are they actual languages or dialects?

Uh they're languages and plus dialects. Okay.

Like I have a local dialect, which is not really a language, it's called mountain language. Okay.

So which is like just dialect, yeah.

Where I come from, the local people, where, sorry, local people they speak.

So coming here to America, was it a shock for you?

Because I'm married with an American, yeah, was not that big shock.

Yeah it's a little bit shocking, when you come like culture shock, you know. Yes.

I think it's uh same way, like when you go to India.

You get a big culture shock and when you come here you get big shock, you know we are such different cultures.

And I, since becoming married, we live in America, sorry, we lived in India after we got married.

Yes for how long? Uh two years. Wow.

Before we came here and so like I got some idea and I'm like uh, you know, like tight

with so many like uh especially like American people that come there and have so many friends

who live there I used to teach Hindi. Really?

Some of my friends, wow, there's some, they're doing business they need to learn local language.

Yeah, that's amazing, yeah wow.

And what do you think has been your favorite thing about life here in America?

I think Christmas. Really?

Because yeah, because I think yeah Christmas, I like you because like wherever you go, I

don't know if you know, like you just see lights, you just see meet people, they say Merry Christmas. Yeah.

I think I this year I don't see anybody wearing hat, I'm the only one like, on the street.

Yeah I just go in a grocery store, Merry Christmas, like you know.

It's just and everybody knows, like you know, there's like a little bit I think good thing

also, and uh yeah, what else I think is the best?

Yeah I think, yeah that's the main thing I think I can say. Yeah, Christmas.

Christmas in America is pretty special. Yes.

And I like your tree that you still have up.

When do you take down your Christmas tree?

Oh so we, even India we always just like, we don't want to like, you know, get like

so fast, we want to wait for one more week. Okay.

So next weekend, like, so we usually do like a first like January, like first weekend,

like kind of like. But this weekend is so soon.

Yeah so we're gonna do like an extra one.

Okay, okay yeah this smells amazing, these spices.

Do I add that pepper in?

You can add a pepper, and also this uh daily water.

Okay so it's been, uh cooking here like almost five to six minutes, so we're gonna add a

bay leaf, like three baby leaves and black pepper, like half teaspoon of black pepper.

And we're gonna add this, uh raisins, raisins.

So this is golden raisin actually and I like this one, but you can use other one, also no problem.

So it's like half a cup of golden raisin, I'm using.

Do we add that now? Yes. You can add it right now. Okay.

See we have a cook coming all the way from South Carolina. Yes this is so fun.

I love cooking and I love Indian food. So I am learning with you.

So I am using 4, 5, 6...You can add this also.

Carrots? So yeah we're gonna use so this is the two whole carrots I and I shredded them, and we're gonna use this now.

We're gonna cook this also now.

So all together we're gonna cook them maybe around like uh 10 minutes.

This is beautiful, the colors in here.

I'm gonna add like one or two tablespoon olive oil more, because it seemed like a little

bit dry here, so you can add any time.

That's a good thing about olive oil, it doesn't smell, you know if you put the raw in there.

How long have you been cooking for?

How did you learn how to cook?

It's been a while, actually, I can say 17 years.

Wow, because wow, when I was in Jaipur, like in the city, when I left my home, because

a home in India, man they don't cook, because especially the kids mother, they don't let

them cook, when they grow up their wife, they don't let them cook.

Sometimes husbands, like just for fun. Oh wow, yeah okay.

So I learned from my mom, but I watched her, so I have idea, like what to put, the spices like you know

So when you get idea about the spices, then you can make your thing, what the spices taste like.

So you can create your own recipes. Yeah

So I do like mostly, I do my channel like gluten free, dairy free, and, wow and like..

Healthy, your food is healthy.

So this is a completely dairy free, and gluten free recipe, this one.

And vegetarian. Yeah yeah you can say I can say this is vegan.

Yeah and it's so good we just need like, we can do like one thing, we can just cover this. Okay.

So we're just gonna cover this for five minutes, because when you cover this, uh so it doesn't

get dry, so it has a like steam. Okay.

So the steam is gonna cook with steam also.

And do you keep the temperature the same?

Yeah, temperature like yeah that should be fine, it's medium. Okay. Kind of like, it's just medium.

And then earlier you had made uh chickpeas.

I didn't uh cook here, I have to start cooking that also.

Okay, once we put the rice here, then we can cook this one, start.

This gonna be faster because I already boiled this. Okay.

So this is chickpea, usually I do like uh sometime chickpea, they're hard to digest,

so we use only like a fresh one, like raw. Okay.

So like dry, yeah so I soaked them for like three days.

So I, so you can soak them for like room temperature, for 15 hours. Okay.

And because if you soak them longer than that, they start to like smell. Okay.

So you don't want this, 15 hours you will see this product, so then you can put the

refrigerator for another like 12 hours.

Okay and then ready this is gonna be like easier to digest, yeah yeah.

That's really interesting. mm-hmm

How's the spice?

I think it's good to taste, because sometimes I don't like to taste.

I always ask my wife to taste, and it's good to taste, because I forgot to put the salt there.

Oh, oh yeah and salt is the like, i mean, main ingredient, how much salt should we put in here?

Just put like a, like maybe two of these two of these.

Okay let's put salt, and this is like uh I can say like two teaspoons, like one and a half teaspoon actually.

Yeah we're gonna save half of this here. Okay.

For like on top, so when we cook, we're gonna put it on top.

So what is your favorite Indian dish?

Oh there's a lot actually, there's so many.

Yeah yeah we're in India every state, if you go there's own 50 different dish, so like

I can say I like chicken.So like I can say any chicken dish I like and I like South Indian, like dosa.

Okay and sam, what are they called Chicken Tikka like, and chicken Tandoori Chicken, I like.

Actually chicken is my favorite too.