- [Michael] Now, a traditional breakfast can be different
depending on where you are in the world,
even your background, or what time you wake up.
For me, it's a rushed jam sandwich, usually,
before coming on air.
- [Virginia] There are no nutrients in that whatsoever.
- [Michael] There's lots of sugar.
Others have a slice of toast, a bit of cereal,
a spring onion pancake or some congee, perhaps.
- [Virginia] Congee, very traditional breakfast,
well, it really is like a porridge, isn't it?
- Foodie Alice Zaslavsky, also known as Alice in Frames,
has made it her mission to educate kids
about new food through her online programme Phenomenom.
Take a look.
- [Alice] Close your eyes.
Now I'm gonna spin the globe
and on three you just have to point at the globe
and open your eyes.
One, two, three.
- [Billy] Whoa!
- [Chef] Ohayou gozaimasu, Billy-san!
You have chosen a traditional Japanese breakfast!
Good choice!
- [Billy] Um, what is this stuff?
- [Chef] Okonomiyaki, looks like a giant vegetable pancake
and that's because it basically is!
This one has cabbage, corn, peas, carrots, spring onion,
topped with special sauce and seaweed!
- [Billy] Seaweed?
Can I spin again?
- [Alice] Nope!
- [Virginia] It's delicious!
Eat it. - [Michael] Beautiful.
- [Virginia] Freddy (sic) eat it.
Alice in Frames joins us now in the studio
to talk breakfast around the world.
Hello! - [Alice] Hello, good morning!
- [Michael] Hi Alice, welcome. - [Virginia] Our dear friend,
you have been up all night cooking this.
Let's have a look.
Look at this. - [Michael] Look at that.
- [Virginia] Extraordinary spread we have in front of us.
Would you like to start left to right or right to left?
- [Alice] Well, I think I might start with something
that's sort of more familiar, which is right over here
and it's really quite boring looking.
- [Virginia] Might want to pick that one up.
- [Alice] It's toast. (laughs)
- [Virginia] I don't want that now.
- [Alice] It's pretty, well, maybe with a bit of jam,
Michael? - [Michael] Bit of jam,
yes, we've got nice jam.
- [Alice] But interestingly, toast and cereal both started
out as a way of using up stale bread.
- [Michael] Yeah. - [Alice] So in the mid 19th
century was when cereal first came around known as granula,
and toast has actually been around
since the Roman times. - [Michael] Yes.
- [Alice] But around the world you've got so many more
interesting flavours.
In fact, I'm gonna start with this one,
the shakshuka. - [Michael] Okay.
- [Virginia] Which is now a standard on breakfast menus
around the country. - [Alice] Absolutely.
- Which is great to see, and this is traditionally Turkish?
- [Alice] Well, this is a Middle Eastern, you see it
all the way across the Middle East
and essentially what they're doing
is they're using the tomatoes, the tomato sauce,
as a vehicle for the eggs, and you usually eat this
with some toasted pita bread. - [Michael] Thank you.
- [Alice] Would you like some?
Yes, yes.
And I'm actually going to insist
that you dip in. - [V] Been waiting all morning
for you to get in here to do this.
Apologies, you now have to watch us eat.
What can I say?
- [Alice] But the fragrance that's coming off these spices,
so cumin, coriander, ras el hanout is a fantastic one.
And because the eggs are still runny,
if you dig into there and really kind of use that.
- [Virginia] Break it off. - [Alice] Really break it up
and get heaps of protein. - [Michael] Oh wow.
- [Alice] And lots of yummy veggies. It's pretty wild.
- [Michael] Suddenly my jam sandwiches,
they seem very boring. - [V] Rather inadequate.
Ras el hanout, I think, if memory serves me,
means top of the shelf?
- [Alice] Oh, yeah, because it's all the different spices
that you'd find on the top
of the shelf. - [V] It's the best spices.
- [Alice] All the best.
- [Virginia] And so it's a combination
it's a bringing together of the lot.
- [Alice] There you go.
So cinnamon, cumin, coriander.
- [Michael] I'm not double-dipping.
- [Alice] No no no, get in there.
- [V] You are so.
- [Michael] I've turned the bread around
the other way. - [Virginia] Oh my god.
- [Alice] But the great thing for people who are in a rush
is that you can make that tomato sauce in advance,
which is what I did, and then
just crack those eggs in and bake them
for about four minutes and it's ready.
- [V] There's capsicum in there as well that you can see.
It's actually not coriander, you've got parsley there
on the top, but coriander would do as well?
- [Alice] Definitely, absolutely.
- [Michael] Okay.
- [Alice] I just wasn't sure if you were
coriander people. - [V] No no, before you get
rid of it, excuse me. - [Alice] Oh okay, yep.
One more, one more. - [Michael] Next.
- [Alice] Now, speaking of- - [M] Do you want me to take
it over you? - [Alice] Oh, thank you
very much, Michael.
Speaking of stuff with egg in it,
this is my personal favourite because this
is what I grew up on.
This is khachapuri, which is a Georgian
cheese pie. - [Virginia] Khachapuri.
- [Alice] Uh-huh. - [V] Georgian food is just
fantastic, isn't it?
- [Alice] It is, absolutely. - [Virginia] Man, I wanna go
to Georgia. - [Alice] Georgia is, I think
Georgian food is the next Mexican food
because it's that, it's kind of a hand food,
it's flavoursome, it's accessible, lots of street food,
and khacha means cheese and puri means bread,
just the same as in Hindi.
- [Virginia] But that's egg. - [Alice] That's egg.
So what we've done is we've baked some egg on top
and then you dip in, and because that residual heat
is still there from the melty cheese...
- [V] It just coddles it. - [Alice] It coddles it.
That's a good word, Virginia.
So you can use that.
Or you can actually. - [Michael] Oh, tear it off.
- [Alice] Tear it off so it's like a little flavour boat.
And I've baked cheese into the crust,
which according to my mother is very very important.
- [Virginia] Oh, it's a stuffed crust!
- [Alice] It's a stuffed crust khachapuri, so.
- [V] Everyone at home is now screaming with envy.
- [Alice] And it's very easy. - [V] I've got a stuffed crust
pizza first thing in the morning.
God does exist. - [A] It's very easy to find
recipes for this, and it essentially is a pizza base
with mozzarella, cheddar, and ricotta.
- [V] Oh god, yum. - [A] That's good, isn't it?
- [V] Yeah, right. - [M] That's real good.
Just make sure you got nice fresh eggs.
- [V] No no, don't take that away.
- [Michael] Next.
- [Alice] We've got so much to do.
And then, now, speaking of places
where you can put egg but you don't have to,
is something like congee.
Congee is eaten all across China
and I personally, when I see breakfast buffets with congee,
I go straight for it. - [Virginia] Yeah, I love it.
- [Alice] I'm very much a savoury eater.
What do you like to put
in your congee? - [Virginia] In congee, well,
I'm not supposed to eat the onions but I do,
you know, the dried shallots. - [Alice] Yes!
- [V] On top, and those onions as well
and a bit of chilli. - [Alice] Yum.
- [V] But it's beautiful and particularly if you go through,
well, somewhere like Bali has a version,
really, of that as well, but as you say,
it's really just a variation on the standard
porridge bowl. - [A] Exactly, that's right.
And then speaking of variations
on a theme. - [Michael] Dosa.
- [Alice] Dosa. - [Michael] For breakfast.
- [Alice] Which is essentially pancakes and muffins,
and it's the same batter.
So it's a rice and lentil batter
and then inside is potato, and this coconut chutney,
I just can't, this is what I've been smelling
the whole time, the fresh curry leaf, smell that.
Smell that and dip in.
So you've got idli and you've got dosa here.
And you might've seen a lot-
- [Virginia] And it's quite firm.
No no, but you'd think- - [Michael] Firm to a point.
- [V] You'd think it would be, I don't know if you can see
this egg, see, really, not enormously runny.
- [Michael] Yeah. - [V] But you actually can
dip in there, Michael,
have a go. - [Alice] Have a go.
And that's a big shout-out to-
- [V] Oh, let me hold some of these if that makes it easier
for you. - [M] To our colleague Luke.
- [Alice] Yeah, Luke's dad made this.
Yeah, thanks Luke's dad.
- [Michael] I need a Luke's dad.
- [V] I'll tear this off for you.
So, excuse fingers.
- [Alice] Tear it off, and inside you can see there's,
so the rice and the lentils are whizzed up
and fermented overnight, which is why you've got
those bubbles on the dosa itself,
and then inside is like a curry onion potato mix,
and I just need to see your face
when you eat this, Michael.
- [Michael] Okay. - [Alice] It's gonna put
your jam sandwich to shame. (laughing)
- [Michael] Close up, Mr. Hitchcock?
- [V] We just don't have the time for this sort of stuff
first thing in the morning.
Tell us about pre-preparation.
- [Alice] Pre-prep, so. - (moans)
- Right?
And that's, so I actually, the thing that I love
to eat most for breakfast are leftovers.
So. - [Virginia] Same, same!
- [Alice] Yeah, so think about dinner as breakfast
is the best thing
to have in the fridge. - [M] That is seriously good.
- [Alice] And now, what I'm doing here is,
as far as I'm concerned, as a millennial,
it's my duty to tell people that you don't have to spend
$20 to make avocado on toast.
- [Virginia] No. - [M] Thank you.
- [A] So that's how you twist. - [M] Oh wow.
- [Alice] Yep, there you go, and in fact you can practise.
These ones are pre-cut, just give them a twist.
- [Michael] Yeah. - [Virginia] Oh no.
- [Alice] A good twist, but I'm gonna need
some audience participation, because I want you
to squish the pips into, let's see, into here,
so squish the pip. - [Michael] That'll be yours,
Virginia, I'd say. - [Alice] Yep, squish the pip,
Virginia. - [V] Oh, okay.
- [Alice] Yep, brilliant, thank you.
And meanwhile, I'm just gonna scoop this out.
There's actually a phenomenon,
phenomenon with an N, known as avocado hand
because people are cutting into their avocados
and go straight into
their hand. - [Michael] I've done that.
I have done that. - [Alice] Oh no.
- [Michael] It's quite painful.
- [V] But if you use, see that little paring knife
over there. - [Alice] Yep.
- [Virginia] Pass me that, Alice.
If you use that one and keep your pressure very light,
there's no way. - [M] You've got 20 seconds.
- [V] If you wanna do that. - [Alice] No pressure.
- Oh yeah, there we go. - [Virginia] Oh my goodness,
we're almost off air. - [Alice] Brilliant.
So then I'm gonna smoosh in the feta and some olive oil
and some parsley, some we prepared earlier,
mash that up, Michael, you can mash.
- [Michael] Fantastic. - [V] And where's that go?
That goes on toast. - [A] That's going on toast.
- [V] There we go. - [M] Thank you,
thank you Alice. - [Alice] Fancy.
- [V] We're gonna take a break now so that we can eat
all this food and stuck to our menu.
Alice, you're an absolute treasure.
- [Alice] It's been my pleasure.
- [Michael] You'll be back more regularly,
so see you soon.
We like people like you. - [Virginia] Every morning.
See you in a bit.
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