Hi everyone, welcome back to Catherine's plates. It is holiday time. I've got my son helping me today
Oh yeah. Hello, guys. This is Joseph. You're like, he's like 23 years old, okay
So I've been teaching him a lot about cooking and there's plenty of videos out there where he's been in them helping me cook. So he's learning a lot
Trying to. Today, because Christmas is right around the corner, we want to make you an appetizer
and it's going to be in shape of a Christmas tree. Christmas tree
Okay, if y'all are ready for this one, it's an appetizer, so let's go ahead and get started
Oh yeah, let's do it. Okay, the first ingredient that we're going to work with is a rotisserie chicken
Oh, yeah. Now, you can either bake your chicken, you can broil your chicken, you can boil your chicken, or you can get a rotissory chicken
chicken that's fully cooked as long as it is cooked chicken and that's going to be our first
ingredient that we're going to work with so you know Joseph's handy-dandy knife skills
oh yeah we're going to put them to the test we're going to turn that into some diced up
chicken oh yeah hey check out these knife skills right instant instant okay he's going to put
this into our large mixing bowl there just using our our page street scraper. Yep
All right, now we're really going to put his knife skills to a test. Okay, I've cleaned off about four or five green onions
Okay, so just kind of line them up. Take off the very top of the tail there
And then slice all the way down. Do what? Magic of TV is fixing to happen
You said right here. Okay. Right there. יב. Yeah. Yeah, take the little, take their heads off
Boom. There you go. It's awesome. And now what are you going to do is just make tiny slices, just as thin as you can give them
If you need to turn them right, there we go. That'd be a little better. You'd have it the wrong way
Very thin, very thin, thinner than that. Thinner than that. There we go
All right, we're going to go ahead now and add the green onions into our large bowl with the chicken
Okay, now what we're going to do is Joseph is going to season this with half a teaspoon of salt, a quarter teaspoon of pepper
and then he's going to sprinkle in about a quarter teaspoon of garlic powder
While he's doing that, I'm going to go ahead and take some cream cheese, and then he's going to sprinkle in about a quarter teaspoon of garlic powder
cream cheese. Now this is an 8 ounce block and it's room temperature so it's very
soft so we can mix everything together. Yay! So what I'm going to do is take this
and cut it into kind of slices to kind of help put in there and get it mixed up
All right, seasonings. Let's see if you remember what I said. No, you said half of this, half of the salt. Okay, making music move
Quarter of the pepper. And then you said a few shakes of this, right
A few shakes, yeah. Is that good? You're not watching it. That makes me... Yeah
We're gonna say that's good. He's like, Mom, is this right? We say that good Okay Oh my good that a lot of things It is That all going in here It all going in there All right Oh yeah
All right. Now what we're going to do is blend this all together
Now we're going to use an electric hand mixer. So I'm going to make his life easy
Thank you. You don't say that, right? yummy oh it smells so good
that cream cheese and the garlic yeah we're gonna go ahead now and build our Christmas tree
oh yeah let's do it I'm excited we're excited okay so we are using a
kind of a sheet pan here and I've got a double layer of parchment paper
Now what was the size of this pan? 10 by 15. About 10 by 15
So you want a roll of pizza dough. You can get this out of
your refrigerated section. And what we're going to do is open this up and we're going to spread it out on our
parchment paper. There you go. There's something that he would love to do
Feed it up. Show off. Show off. I sit there and banging on here like ten times, and he just like, poop
Okay, well, good. It's always good to have a helper in the kitchen. To the other
We kind of keep it even. Okay. All right. So we got a pretty good rectangle there
What we're going to do, okay, we're going to try to keep you up close while we do this
Now, we're going to take this and make the top of the Christmas tree from it too
So we're going to kind of find the center here. And then we're going to do like a triangle to the very end
Did you get that, Joseph? Oh, yeah. And then you want to come over here and do it, but take it to there
Okay? All right. So we're going to pass the knife on. Oh, boy. Okay, now what we're going to do is get a piece of parchment paper and then we're going to lay the two triangles on that
We're going to use that a little bit later. cut out the Christmas tree stump so that we can use that later also
Okay, now what we're going to do is take our mixture, and we're going to place it in the center of the Christmas tree
and then we're going to kind of flatten it out to the ends. And that's what Joseph's got here
He's going to be using an offset spatula to help flatten it all out
There you go. Kind of give it a little edge there. Yeah, I'm just kind of get it all to the zip-it-top
You know, they teach you to color in the lines of school, and I'm going to be having a hard time with that
Nope looks good Shirt all nice and even Now what we got to do is bring over one of the triangles and put it on the tree here
because it's going to cover this chicken mixture or whatever mixture you're going to be using
to make your tree. Point down there in the triangle here. Just kind of stretch it out
Just wherever it needs to go. All right, you want to bring the other one over
Okay, guys, how's it looking? We're getting there, huh? For sure. Okay
All right, and then we're going to take this one and put it on there, the triangle down to the bottom
and then just stretch it where it needs to go. It's going to bake up beautifully
Indeed it is. and then what we're going to do is pinch the edges here to close them all up
and push the now we're not sealing the edges of our tree the outside of the tree because
oh yeah more fun we can't stand it nope gotta have fun okay
Now we're going to do something really fun. So we're going to make cuts
I'm going to show you how to do this side. Then you can go over there and do that side
So we're going to cut right there. And then we're going to cut right here
Now you don't want to go to the center line, okay? Because what you're going to do is pick that up
And then we're just going to twist it. it. Like that. So you're just going to cut it. Then you're just use your knife to pick
it up the cut. And then we're going to twist like that. There we go. We're going to do
that all the way down. Fine. All right. You want me to cut them? What do we do
You can cut them. I'm going to twist them. You want to twist them? Yep. Okay. I'll twist them
All right. There you go. Okay. And then twist it twice and just set it down
Like that. There you go. Hey. All right. Let me go ahead and do all the cuts and give you the knife
And then we'll do the other side. Fun, huh, Joseph
It's really fun. What a cool way to make an appetizer for Christmas
Heck yeah. look at that okay now we're fixing to jazz this thing up with some lights oh yeah okay so we have
some red bell pepper that i chopped up into small pieces and what we're going to do is kind of
fit those into the twist where the chicken filling is next to the green and light this tree up
But I imagine there are lots of ways that you can put different colors onto this tree. Mm-hmm
For sure. Okay guys what we're going to do now is we're going to place our trunk onto the bottom of the Christmas tree
There we go. Okay now Joseph's going to take about three tablespoons of melted butter and he's going to add one tablespoon of some dried parsley into a it
How much did you say? Yep, that's good. And then he's just going to take the brush and kind of swirl that together
And then he's going to slather this butter mixture and brush it all over our Christmas tree
Covering all of the dough so it'll get a nice golden color to it
Okay, this is going to go into our preheated oven at 400 degrees for around 20 to 22 minutes
Just keep an eye on this. We want it nice and golden brown, but we do want it cooked on the bottom side too, so make
sure you check for that. Okay guys, ready to show you what we're going to do after that
Heck yeah. Okay, so what we did was we pulled this out of the oven and we let it rest for about
minutes and then we pulled it off of the sheet pan and onto our cutting board and then we just kind of pulled the paper out from underneath of it
look at this work of art our Christmas tree and it's a chicken cream cheese appetizer with a lot of delicious flavors
oh my gosh I know Joseph is ready to dig in I've been ready so I'm going to have him take a twist
Okay, so what you're supposed to, because we made these twist like that, like garlic twist, you're just going to take one and pull it off the tree like that
Wow, that looked pretty easy. Yeah. Wow, that's really good
That is so delicious. Mm-hmm. I agree. Okay, who wants to make a cremate
Christmas tree. I do. He's ready for the next one. Yep. I got a snowman coming soon so check that one out
Oh, that's yeah. Okay. We had a lot of fun making this. Yeah, we did. So let me hold this up for you guys. There you go
Alright, give me a thumbs up on this one. Give us both a thumbs up on this one. Comment down below what you
think what you would put into your Christmas tree. Yeah. Guys. All ideas welcome
Make sure you share this one to all your friends and family
Yes. Okay. I will see you on the next episode. Yep. Now it's time for us to eat the tree
And believe me, we have other people to help share this tree. Thank you