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Unit Summary

This unit extends pupils' cooking techniques, focusing on their food skill proficiency. Pupils develop food skills and apply their nutrition understanding. Recipe modification is undertaken, through nutritional analysis, and the functional properties of key ingredients are analysed.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to use food skills to make cheesy bean burritos.

Key Notes

• Burritos are from Mexico. Enchiladas are similar, different wrap and covered spicy sauce, and chimichangas are fried.
• Beans form part of 5 A DAY, counting as a maximum of 1 portion, no matter how much is eaten. A portion is 3 tablespoons.
• The food skills used to make cheesy bean burritos are measuring, grating, cutting, mixing, folding and using the hob.
• Cross-contamination of bacteria, spread between food, surfaces, hands and/or equipment, must be avoided.
• The energy and nutrients provided by a recipe can be calculated, and suggestions for improvements made.

Vocabulary To Learn

• burrito: a tortilla wrap, with different fillings, originally from Mexico
• beans: the edible seeds of a plant
• nutritional analysis: the process of calculating energy and nutrients of food
• cross contamination: where food poisoning bacteria is spread between food, surfaces, hands and/or equipment

Common Mistakes To Avoid

• Beans can count as many portions towards 5 A DAY, depending on the number of portions eaten.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

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