Assistant Chef
Kids Cooking Lessons Plans
3-6 years old
Lesson 7

For today's kids cooking lessons we are going to create one of the salads below. Kids will practice tearing and shredding lettuce. This is a great job for your young chefs to help you out with dinner. Have them wash the lettuce, tear it into bite size pieces and spin dry it. You can chop vegetables and have them add it to the salad as well. Letting them toss it and getting them involved in the preparation.

Kids Cooking Lesson- Tearing and Tossing

Easy salad recipes are great for kids to help     with.  They will have a hands on experience preparing the vegetables and they might just eat it, if they helped create it.

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Easy Salad Recipes

Green Salad
Vegetables of choice
Lettuce
Sunflower seeds
Croutons

Have child wash vegetables and lettuce. Have them dry lettuce, tear into pieces and put into a salad bowl. Adult should cut vegetables and the child can arrange them into the salad. Toss and add toppings.

Spinach Salad
Bag of fresh spinach leaves
Strawberries
Kiwi
Grapefruit, cut up
Sliced avocado
Have child open bag of spinach with scissors and place into the salad bowl. Wash fruit and have adult cut into slices. You can use any fruit you would like. Have child arrange fruit and toss. Serve with the following dressing that your child can help stir and add ingredients to.

Spinach Salad Dressing
1 Cup oil
1/4 Cup sour cream
1/4 Cup + 1 Tablespoon vinegar
½ teaspoon mustard
garlic clove, minced
½ teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoon parsley
Pour oil and sour cream in an air tight container. Mix in vinegar, mustard, garlic, salt, sugar and parsley. Shake and drizzle over mixed salad.

Happy about cooking!!

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Related Assistant Chef Cooking Lessons:
~Lesson 1--Kitchen Safety, ~Lesson 2--Spreading, ~Lesson 3--Pouring, ~Lesson 4--Dinner Etiquette and Manners, ~Lesson 5--Peeling, ~Lesson 6--Practice rolling, ~Lesson 7--Tearing and Tossing, ~Lesson 8--Nutrition and Eating Healthy, ~Lesson 9--Practice Stirring and Making a No Bake Recipe, ~Lesson 10--Adding Ingredients, ~Lesson 11--Creating and Being Creative, ~Lesson 12--Practice Measuring,, ~Lesson 13--Helping in the Kitchen

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