Celebrating Chinese New Year

Today we are celebrating Chinese New Year with some healthy Asian Cuisine.

To start the group members found a recipe for 5 spice turkey and lettuce wraps. 

The group wanted to try these out as they are low in fat but included lots of spices to boost the flavour.

To make these you will need Turkey mince, fresh ginger, red bell peppers, water chestnuts, Hoisin sauce, chinese 5 spice, spring onion, carrot and lettuce.

Firstly fry off the turkey mince and the grated fresh ginger in a little sesame oil.

Add the 5 spice and hoisin sauce, then add the vegetables and mix for a couple of minutes. You want the vegetable to still be crunchy.

Then put a couple of table spoons of the turkey mixture into a lettuce leaf and serve..

Everyone agreed that it was a very tasty starter!

Vegetable Stir Fry

The group also wanted to cook a vegetable stir fry.

The group wanted to pick the vegetables when they went out shopping based on what looked the best.

So we got:

Carrot

Spring onions 

Red, green and yellow peppers

Chilli

mushrooms

pak-choi

sweetcorn 

Mange tout
Onions

The group had to wash and slice up all these vegetables, a great opportunity to work on our knife skills. The group know that it is very important to use sharp knives safely and its always great to get some practice in.

We then fried all the vegetables in a little bit of sesame seed oil and added soy sauce and Chinese 5 Spice.

We served the vegetable stir fry with some white rice.

The group said that they enjoyed all the flavours of this dish and felt good that they had made vegetables taste so exciting!

We spoke about how these vegetables give us the nutrition, vitamins and energy we need to be healthy and happy.