Active kids get cooking
Challenge
2009
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Our story…..
Every Friday the year 6 Claines C of E Primary school cooking club meet. This term we started by discussing what we wanted to learn about, our local Sainsbury’s food advisor Jennie Green told us about the active kids get cooking challenge and we thought it would be a brilliant idea to enter.
We decided to enter this competition because claines C of E is a healthy school and it would be a good opportunity to make people aware of our ability to cook a healthy breakfast.
We started by discussing all of our ideas as a group, we then voted on two recipes to cook and taste test. We chose the final recipe after voting in the group and getting our class teacher Mr Fearns to taste the dishes too. We final decided on our dish as it was the most appealing, had the best nutritional features and tasted delicious and looked good!
We had also decided that we wanted to have a drink to go with our breakfast. As a group we decide a smoothie would be fun to make and we knew that they are good for you too! To decide on which fruit to include we conducted a big taste test using lots of different fruit, juice and milk combination. Our final recipe was the favourite amongst our group. |
Our frozen fruit smoothie
our eggy bread egg cup
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Our Recipe | ||
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Eggy Bread Cups with Salsa dip served with a Frazen Fruit Smoothie
Equipment
Muffin tray Sharp knife Oven Chopping board Cookie cutter – large Blender Glasses Plates Whisk Spoon 2 x mixing bowls Measuring jug Cutlery
Ingredients – serve 4
8 slices wholemeal seeded bread 6 eggs Chopped herbs (we used fresh parsley) Black pepper 1 red pepper 1 orange pepper 200g cherry tomatoes |
Method 1.) Cut 8 circles with the cookie cutter out of the bread. Feed the left over bread to the birds! 2) crack the 6 eggs into a bowl, add the pepper and herbs and whisk until well mixed. 3) Dip the bread circles in the egg mixture. Use the bread circles to line 8 holes in the muffin tray. 4) Use the left over egg mixture to fill the egg cup moulds that you have made with the bread circles. 5) Bake in the oven at 200°c for 10 minutes. Get a teacher to remove from the oven. Use spoon to remove from muffin tray.
6) Whilst the eggy bread egg cups are cooking, make the salsa. 7) Chop the peppers, herbs and cherry tomatoes finely
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Ingredients for smoothie
1 banana ˝ pack of frozen fruit (we used summer fruit as it was sweeter) 500ml apple juice some strawberries and kiwi to decorate
Method 1) The frozen fruit, banana and apple juice until you get the right consistency. 2) Decorate your glass with strawberries and kiwi 3) Make a fruit kebab if you have enough fruit left over.
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Summary
We loved inventing our perfect healthy breakfast! We are very proud of how it turned out. We are proud of this breakfast because so many people have eggs and bread for their breakfast but we have never seen people combine the simple ingredients together in this way before. So we have made a delectable breakfast to help fill you with energy for the whole morning. We are also proud of this breakfast as it contains 3 out of the 5 food groups. We have included bread for carbohydrates, egg for protein and fruits and vegetables for the fruit and vegetable section. We have also chosen to use fresh fruits and vegetables as well as juiced fruit ( pressed apple juice) and frozen fruit (our frozen mixed berries) as we have learnt recently that all these forms help towards your 5 a day. It was important to us to make sure the breakfast helped towards your 5 a day. No salt has been used in this recipe too, we know that to much salt isn’t good for you so we have used herbs and black pepper to add flavour instead. No added sugar has been added to the breakfast too, all the sugar is naturally occurring in the fruit and vegetables.
Please have a go at making our breakfast and we hope like it too!
By ... Kristi Boxall, Rebeka Bennett, Clare Hinks, Katie Jones, Tori Edgeworth, Holly Bacon, Ella Wilson, Natalie Hemming, Georgina
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