Ingredients for Pot Sticker Soup

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Hi, I'm Chef A.J., and welcome to Expert Village. I'm going to show you that making healthy food can be easy, delicious, and fun. We're going to make a pot sticker soup. Whenever I have a dinner party or, especially if I'm doing Asian food, this soup is always such a big hit that people just want to eat the soup and nothing else. And it is so easy. The ingredients are readily available at your local supermarket or Trader Joe's or natural food store. First thing we're going to do is we're going to saute a pound of carrots. I'm lazy, basically, and I like to buy them already peeled, washed. And they're organic, of course. And this is a pound of them. Even though I'm a chef and went to culinary school, my knife skills were never my forte. So that's why God invented the food processor. Teaching at the Braille Institute, teaching healthy cooking to the blind also has taught me easy and safe ways to do everything. It turns out to be easy for everybody. So, I take my pound of organic prewashed and peeled baby carrots, and--by the way, if something is organic, you don't have to worry so much about peeling it--put them in the food processor. Press the button, do it a little bit more. It depends how fine you want the pieces. And that's it. This works really well in the soup. And I'm done. Now, I am going to saute these in about two tablespoons of olive oil--good quality, extra virgin olive, organic, of course. You know, it's funny. With olive oil, people assume that the most expensive is the best. And that may or may not be true. Just like with wine. But if that's true, then why is Two Buck Chuck so popular, right? But I have found that olive oil, like anything else, they taste differently sometimes. Where they're made, if they're made in Italy, if they're made in Greece, and when I do teach my culinary classes in Los Angeles, I make my students taste the olive oil, dip it in a piece of bread, because I want people to understand that the most expensive isn't always necessarily the best. It has to taste good to you. Some of them are a little more fruity, you just have to go with what tastes good to you. I happen to like the organic brand from Trader Joe's. It's reasonably priced and it's a very good all purpose olive oil for salads and soups. Two tablespoons. I have been doing this so long that I don't have to measure. Usually just two circles around the pot is enough. We just want to cover the pot.

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