Nara Aziza Smith has nearly 10 million followers on TikTok. This video alone where her husband Lucky cooks for her explains why. The way it’s made is highly original, creative, and inspiring. The ‘costume’, narrative, narration style, the ‘props’, music…

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Nara’s narration:

My husband doesn’t cook, but I’ve been missing Germany so much lately that tonight he asked me whether I could show him one of my favorite German dishes to cook so he could cook it for me.

So tonight we made some red braised cabbage, also known as Rotkohl and Jägerschnitzel.

We started by dicing some onion, shredding some cabbage, combining that with water, apple cider vinegar, sugar, salt, and red currant jelly.

I let that go for about an hour and a half while we got started on our mushroom sauce.

I sliced up some mushrooms and then Lucky went ahead and started sautéing some shallots in some butter.

Once our shallots were soft, he added in all of our sliced mushrooms. Once those were cooked down, we added in some beef stock, some heavy cream, and thickened our sauce with a cornstarch slurry.

We let that simmer away and started pounding out our pork loins.

I like making my schnitzel with either pork or veal, but today it was pork.

Once all of our cutlets were pounded out, we set up our breading station with some eggs, bread crumbs, and some flour that we seasoned.

Then it was time to bread our pork: dipped in the flour, first the eggs, and then the bread crumbs, and then fried it until golden brown before sprinkling it with some salt while it was still warm.

And then we could plate.

We put down the cabbage, the schnitzel, our mushroom sauce.

This was so nostalgic to me, … and obviously Lucky did clean up after.

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