After-school club: delicious recipes
25 Mar 2008
Cook up some healthy food with your class using recipes from Weston Park Primary School
2. Chicken and sweetcorn pasta
You will need:
- Pasta shapes (amount depends on number of children)
- Water
- Previously cooked chicken (sliced chicken in a packet works best)
- Sweetcorn
- Light mayonnaise
- Utensils
- Large saucepan
- Wooden spoon
- Sharp knife
- Chopping board
What to do:
- Bring a saucepan of water to the boil and place in pasta to the required amount.
- Simmer pasta until cooked.
- Slice the chicken into small pieces.
- Drain off the sweetcorn.
- Drain the pasta when cooked and add sweetcorn and chicken. Mix in tablespoon of light mayonnaise. Add more if necessary.
- This can be eaten hot, or left to cool and used as a salad. Some of our children used theirs as part of a healthy lunch the next day at school!
1. Perfect pizza
(makes two small pizzas)
You will need:
- A pinch of salt
- 40g (1 and a half oz) butter
- 3 tablespoons of milk
- 150g (6 oz) flour
- 50g (2oz) grated cheese
- 1 small onion
- 1 small tin tomatoes
- 1 desert spoon tomato puree
- Utensils
- Mixing bowl
- Small saucepan
- Wooden spoon
- Grater
- Rolling pin
- Knife
- Sharp knife
- Chopping board
- Baking tray
Making the sauce:
- Set oven to 22oc / 425oF / Gas mark 7
- Chop up onion finely. Place in saucepan with tomatoes, tomato puree salt and mix.
- Cook for 15 mins then allow to cool.
Making the pizza bases:
- Place flour, salt and butter in mixing bowl. Cut butter into small pieces.
- Rub butter into the flour using fingertips until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add cheese and milk. Mix together until forms a dough.
- Separate dough into two, forming a ball with each. Roll each ball into circular shape.
- Place pizza bases on greased baking tray. Spoon on the sauce and spread.
For the topping:
Pizzas can be decorated to look like faces or imaginative patterns. Olives make really good eyes and sliced peppers look great as mouths. Other suggestions include:
- Olives
- Cooked sliced sausage
- Mushrooms
- Different cheeses
- Tomatoes
- Sweetcorn
- Sliced ham
- Peppers
- Pineapple
