Greek Salad bar!

5S loved preparing a Greek salad bar to share at their Arts Fortnight Celebration. They learned key cooking skills and that it is important to eat a range of different foods from the Eatwell plate to keep healthy.

Here are our recipes so that you can try them at home. Reply to our blog with your foodie creations!

Pitta Pockets– Perfect lunch or snack after school.

This was our chance to learn some key cooking skills to prepare our salad of carrots, cucumber, tomato, pepper and grated cheese. The children chose foods to fill their pitta pocket. We found we had created a balanced snack with carbohydrate, vegetables, protein and dairy.

Greek Flatbread – So simple and really fun.

500 g Self Raising Flour

4 tablespoons – Greek Yogurt

Mix together with your hands to make a soft dough. Shape into a ball then roll flat.

Cook in a dry frying pan. After 1 minute or 2 bubbles should start to form. Turn the flatbread every 2-3 minutes or as required.

Tzatziki

Peel and grate 1/2 cucumber. Use kitchen paper to squeeze out excess water.

Stir into 200g of Greek yogurt

Mix with 1 tbsp lemon juice and 1 garlic clove crushed.

Finally add 1 tbsp of freshly chopped mint.

Falafel

These are baked not fried so even healthier. We did really well at not drying them out by brushing with a little oil before putting in the oven. These were cooked for 5-10 minutes on each side.

We started by peeling and roasting 2 sweet potatoes for 30 minutes.

Then pulsed them in a blender with 2 cans of chickpeas

1 clove garlic

1 tsp ground coriander

2 tsp cumin

2tbsp fresh chopped parsley

1 tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp lemon juice

The best bit was definitely rolling the balls of mixture and flattening slightly on the oiled baking tray.

Celebration

We hope you all enjoyed 5S’s Greek Salad bar! Send us your photos of these keen chefs cooking at home! Great work 5S!