Year 6 - Cooking and nutrition
Making a tear 'n' share pizza
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Unit Summary
Through three recipes, pupils showcase accurate and precise food skills through dicing, weighing and measuring, and portioning, as well as presentation techniques. Pupils will be more confident and show greater independence in their cooking.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use food skills to make a tear 'n' share pizza.
Key Notes
- A pizza base is bread dough, which uses yeast. As the dough rests and bakes, yeast produces gas, which makes it rise.
- Precise cutting, spreading and rolling are important to make eight uniform sized pizza rolls which will cook evenly.
- The food skills needed to make a pizza include measuring, kneading, grating, spreading, rolling and using an oven.
- Pizzas can have a wide range of toppings, catering for many food preferences, health needs and occasions.
Vocabulary To Learn
- kneading: the process of pulling, folding and stretching the dough
- carbon dioxide: a colourless, odourless gas
- prove: in this context, allowing the dough to rest and the yeast to produce gas (carbon dioxide)
- yeast: a microorganism that produces a gas (carbon dioxide) during making and baking a dough
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- The base of a pizza is always covered in a sauce made from tomatoes.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
A pizza base is bread dough, which uses yeast. As the dough rests and bakes, yeast produces gas, which makes it rise. Precise cutting, spreading and rolling are important to make eight uniform sized pizza rolls which will cook evenly.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'kneading'
the process of pulling, folding and stretching the dough.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: The base of a pizza is always covered in a sauce made from tomatoes. Correction: While a sauce made from tomatoes is traditional, the base can also be covered in pesto, a cheese sauce, or just garlic and oil.
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