As part of our unit on Ugandan food, Year 6 at Liss have been designing, making and tasting their own Ugandan rolexes. After extensive research on common Ugandan food, the pupils got into small groups to design their rolexes (rolled eggs) and chooose the ingredients to either go in the omelette or to go on the side of the plate. Many of the pupils opted to choose a fusion of British and Ugandan flavours – this resulted in some very tasty looking rolexes as the photos below show.
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Cooking Ugandan meals at Liss
Warm greetings to our Ugandan friends at Kafuro. We hope that you had a good Easter.
After tasting Ugandan – style meals before the Easter holidays, Liss pupils in Year 6 came back to school ready to create their own meals. Ugandan chapattis had proven to be very popular with our pupils and these formed the basis of many of the children’s meals. Also extremely popular was muchomo – our pupils like meat!
All of our pupils had heard from Mr Stanley about the wonders of Ugandan rolex and more than a few of the groups were determined to create their own. The pupils used green and red peppers, tomatoes, carrots, cabbage and even bacon and sausage in their rolexes. One group even added chili.
As the photos below show, the pupils had a great time creating their meals and really enjoyed making chapattis, cutting up salads, grilling meat and presenting their meals.
Our pupils are wondering what UK meals Ugandan pupils would like to cook if they had the chance
Ugandan food tasting at Liss
As part of our DT topic, Liss Yr 6 pupils took part in tasting Ugandan foods before researching and making their own Ugandan – style meal after Easter. Among the foods the children tasted were muchomo, chapatti, katchembali, roast Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, plantain chips and a simple salad. Most of the children really enjoyed the tasting with muchomo proving to be very popular. They had to give each food a mark out of 10 and explain why they had given their score. We will post some of our images of the meals the children make when they return to school
Ugandan – style food tasting
At Liss, as we approach the end of our Uganda topic, we set the children a design technology task – to plan and make a Ugandan – style meal. Before the children can do this, they have to taste Ugandan food. Mr Stanley was very busy in the Liss kitchen making the following:
Roast IRISH potatoes
Roast Sweet potatoes
Chapatis
Muchomos
Banana chips
Salad
Katchembali
The children tasted the food and had to complete an evaluation. The next step will be to plan and create their own Ugandan meals. We will report to you on their progress!
An Easter Treat: Ugandan – style cooking at Liss
Warm greetings to our friends in Kafuro and throughout schools in the UK and Uganda involved in the Queen Elizabeth Parks Project. Also a big ‘Hello’ to the Czech and Belgian teachers who visited our school and who are likely to be reading this blog. This week the Year 6 children at Liss Junior School designed, cooked and ate their Ugandan-style meals.
The children had access to the cob oven and many of the groups were keen to cook muchomos and chapattis. Mr Stanley showed them how to make chapatti dough, roll it flat and then to fry it in a pan. He also showed the children how to skewer meat to make muchomos.
The children boiled and roasted Irish potatoes and sweet potatoes as well as making salads. One group decided to make their own rolex and several groups also cooked rice.
The children were very pleased with their creations and filled out evaluation forms which showed how much they enjoyed making the food.
Mr Stanley is looking forward to cooking European-style food with Kafuro children in August using their cob oven. What food would you suggest?
Ugandan-style food tasting
For our Year 6 DT project this term, the children will be designing, making and eating a Ugandan-style meal. The children have already carried out some research on the internet about popular Ugandan foods, but today Mr Stanley prepared some Ugandan food for the children to taste. The food included:
Roast potatoes – In Uganda these are known as Irish potatoes
Sweet potatoes – some of our Ugandan friends refer to them as sweat potatoes
Beef muchomo – pieces of beef marinated in oil, garlic and mild curry powder grilled to perfection.
Plantain chips – Green banana chips lightly salted.
Salad – red onion, carrot & cabbage
Chapatti – made from flour, water with a tiny pinch of salt.
Katchembali – another salad with tomato, green pepper, onion and chilli.
The children took the opportunity to taste all the foods. They then had to complete an evaluation form giving each food a mark out of ten and explaining why they awarded the mark. Next, the children will have to design their own Ugandan plate of food covering the major food groups.
We would like to ask our Ugandan friends what British food would they like to eat?
Making bread!
As part of our D.T unit of work this term, we have made bread. We began this unit by tasting a variety of different breads in order to help decide which ingredients we would add to our own designs which we then planned. Here we are in the kitchen with Mrs Boyle!
We would like to ask our friends in Kafuro two questions. How do you make bread? What ingredients do you make in your bread?
