Being creative!
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Lesson objectives
To identify ways to be creative
when choosing
recipes and ingredients and
cooking foods.
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Recipe Choice
When choosing suitable recipes, it is important to
understand who will be eating the dish, the
occasion, time of day or theme. You could:
• find different recipes in magazines, books,
supermarket leaflets and recipe cards;
• search the internet but choose your websites
carefully as some recipes might not have been
tested;
• ask family and friends for their favourite
recipes – these could be traditional or more
modern.
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Ingredient choice
• Try something new such as a herb or spice, e.g.
saffron, nigella seeds or dried kaffir leaves;
• Research and use unusual vegetables such as
salsify, celeriac, cassava, kohlrabi and
romanesco broccoli;
• Investigate exotic fruits like rambutan, physalis,
persimmon (Sharon fruit), pitaya (dragon fruit),
carambola (star fruit) or custard apples;
• Try different cuts of beef and lamb that you
have not used before.
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Fuse ingredients, recipes and cultures!
Fusion food is a cuisine that combines
elements of different culinary traditions.
The most well known fusion food is TexMex
which is a combination of Texan and Mexican
flavours and recipes.
Why not create your own fusion food?
Try different flavours, colours and textures to
produce a new and exciting recipe!
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Cooking methods
Try different cooking methods:
• grill, stir fry, steam or microwave to reduce
the amount of fat used and retain vitamins
and minerals;
• BBQ meat, fish and vegetables;
• cook meat and fish ‘en papilotte’ (in a
folded parchment parcel);
• use metal or wooden skewers to make
kebabs;
• use vegetable sticks to make koftas.
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Being inspired!
Sometimes you can be inspired and creative
using a small range of ingredients.
Look at the ingredients provided from the
following three shopping bags – what you
would make? Explain your choice.
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Tip: Press the space
bar to see all the
ingredients!
What would you make?
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Tip: Press the space
bar to see all the
ingredients!
What would you make?
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Tip: Press the space
bar to see all the
ingredients!
What would you make?
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Acknowledgement
For further information, go to: www.food4life.org.uk
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