Year 5 - Cooking and nutrition
Making Mexican pockets
Creative cooking
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Unit Summary
This unit focuses on being creative with food, looking at how recipes can be adapted. Changing ingredients, forming different shapes and great presentation are covered. Food skills are further secured, with attention to health and safety.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use food skills to make Mexican pockets.
Key Notes
- Recipes can be inspired by cuisines around the world. These pockets are inspired by the dish Tetelas, from Mexico.
- Recipes can be modified to meet the needs and preferences of different people.
- Spices and herbs can be added to a dish for added flavour and aroma, and enhanced taste and appearance.
- The food skills used to make pockets are measuring, grating, slicing, dicing, portioning, folding and using the oven.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Mexico: a country in southern North America
- Mexican: relating to Mexico
- modify: to make changes to something
- dicing: to cut food into small cubes
- portioning: to divide equally
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- For extra flavour in a recipe, only salt and pepper can be used.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Recipes can be inspired by cuisines around the world. These pockets are inspired by the dish Tetelas, from Mexico. Recipes can be modified to meet the needs and preferences of different people.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'Mexico'
a country in southern North America.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: For extra flavour in a recipe, only salt and pepper can be used. Correction: There are lots of ingredients that could be used, such as spices, herbs, and other aromatic ingredients e.g. lemon grass, harissa.
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