Tomato Spirals I Can Cook

# I can cook

# I can cook

# I can cook! #

Hello! Lovely to see you.

I've just been getting ready for today's recipe,

it's going to be delicious and I can't wait.

KNOCK ON DOOR

Come in!

Hello, Katy.

Hi, Sally. Hi, guys!

(ALL) Hello, Katy.

Hi! Come in, everyone.

-Do you want to know what we're going to cook today?

-Yes!

Today's mouth watering recipe is going to be...

Tomato spirals!

Don't they look really tasty, everyone?

(ALL) Yes!

We're nearly ready to start

but there's one thing we need to do first. What is it?

Wash our hands!

# Roll up your sleeves

# Give your hands a wash With slippy-dippy soap

# Splish, splash, splosh

-# Have you done your hands?

-Yes!

-Washed and dried?

-Yes!

-# Sleeves rolled up?

-Yes!

-Apron tied?

-Yes!

# What can you do? I can cook! #

-Let's get cooking, everyone!

-Yes!

To make our tomato spirals we're going to need some puff pastry.

It's called puff pastry because when we put it in the oven

it's going to magically puff up, like this. Poooof!

Can you puff up like that?

Poooof!

Can you pretend to puff up like puff pastry too?

Watch us, look! Ready...Poooof!

Before we use that we need to sprinkle our mat

with lots of flour. So take this, everyone,

and sprinkle it out.

And look, it looks a bit like snow!

Make sure you put lots on,

but don't use it all cos we need some for later.

Take your puff pastry

and we're going to plonk it in the middle of our mat. Plonk!

Put your rolling pin on top and I'll show you a good way to do rolling.

We're going to make duck feet fingers, like this.

Can you do that at home? Brilliant, James, that's fantastic!

Put them on your rolling pin, nice and wide, and let's get rolling.

That's it.

I'm doing it!

To and fro, to and fro

Rolling, rolling, as we go!

THEY GIGGLE

What do you think it looks like?

Looks like a pancake to me.

I know, a telly.

A telly?!

If it's a bit sticky you can always add a bit more flour.

Mine is ginormous.

Mine is much more big. It's even filled my table mat.

Nicole, that's going to make loads of spirals.

You're really good at rolling.

Right, the next thing we need to do is paint our big bit of pastry

and to do this we need some tomato puree.

You can draw anything you want on your pastry.

I'm going to draw a smiley face

but you can draw anything that you want to.

I'm gonna do one eye.

Two eyes.

And a big happy smile!

Go on then, guys, let's see what you're going to draw!

-Bradley, what are you drawing?

-A hill.

-What's that thing in the sky, there?

-A bird.

Cami, what have you drawn?

A smiley person.

I like her hair, it's really cool.

Now we get to spread it all out with our butter knife,

so take your butter knife, like this,

and spread it all over your puff pastry.

We need to spread it right out to the edges.

What do you think it looks like when we're painting it?

A really light sunset.

That's nice! It's a bit like making a really messy painting.

At least we've got aprons on.

Yeah.

Now we're going to do some grating.

-Who likes grating?!

-Me!

Give your partner a high five. I'm gonna give you a high five, Sally.

We're going to put one block of cheese into our grater,

I'll go first. Then we're gonna start grating. Let's go!

Round and round!

We get it already.

Nice big pieces coming out.

James, what do you think it looks like when it comes out?

A bit like rain.

A bit like rain?! Do you?

It's like it's raining cheese.

We have lots of cheese!

If you're got a little bit of cheese left in the grater

you can always use your fork to scrape it out.

Why don't you try, Sally?

It's still on.

When you've finished, tip your cheese into a bowl

and then keep going till everyone's cheese has been grated.

Now we're going to sprinkle the cheese onto the tomato-y paste.

This is where we get really messy.

I love this bit.

Do you like getting messy at home too?

Ready? Wheee! It's raining cheese!

What do you think we're going to need next in this recipe?

Let's out you to the test, today's ingredient for you to guess.

What do you think it's going to be?

Let me give you some clues.

The missing ingredient for our tomato spirals

has a really strong smell, so could it be...

No! You can't eat perfume!

Let's try again.

Another clue is that it's green, so could it be...

No!

You eat a green dragon!

Now let's try one more time, shall we?

It has a strong smell and it's green, and one more clue,

it's part of the herb family. So could it be...

Do you know what it is?

This is a strong smelling herb called basil.

It's going to add lots of lovely flavour to our cooking.

We need basil in our tomato spirals,

so shall we go and see if we can find any growing

in the I Can Cook garden? Come on.

# I can cook

# I can cook! #

This is the I Can Cook garden.

Where in the garden do you think you'll find basil growing?

In the greenhouse,

in pots and containers,

or growing on bushes?

Pots and 'tainers.

-Shall we go and see?

-Yeah.

-Come on then, let's go.

The basil we've got growing in the I Can Cook garden is growing in a pot,

-but it can grow in all sorts of places, can't it?

-Yes.

-James, sniff the basil, what does it smell like?

-Bit like tea and coffee.

How do we know when basil's ready to pick?

-When the leaves are green and it's bushy.

-Do you think this one's ready?

-Yeah.

-We just hold the stalk and pull it off with our fingers.

Goodness, look at that tiny baby one!

Now we've got our basil, let's get back to the kitchen.

# I can cook! #

We're back in the kitchen, we've washed our hands

and we've washed our basil and we're ready to carry on cooking.

The first thing we need to do is take four basil leaves

and we're going to tear them up a bit like tearing paper.

Take one leaf and give it a rip.

What is the best thing in the world about tearing basil?

It makes your hands smell nice and you get to rip it up yourself.

True and, Cami, what do you think?

-Makes your hands smell like it.

-I said that!

Now we're going to scatter the basil leaves

all over the pastry and the tomato and the cheese.

Sprinkle, sprinkle, over the cheese

Just like tumbling Autumn leaves.

-Do you know what time it is, everyone?

-Roly-poly time!

That's right! It's roly-poly time.

Take your fingers, like this,

and we're gonna roll it up into a big sausage.

That's excellent! Perfect.

Sally, that's really good too. Everyone's is really good.

Now we're going to take a baking tray,

which I've already oiled for you all,

-and we're going to make our spirals. Who wants to make spirals?

-Me!

Take a butter knife and carefully cut our pastry roll into slices.

Start by making a ladder along the pastry, like this.

Now, carefully slice them with our butter knife.

There's one.

Two.

-I like slicing, do you?

-Yeah.

Three.

What do they all look like when they're in a line, like that?

A bit like a caterpillar.

It does look like a caterpillar actually, with its head like that.

Now we're going to put our spirals onto our baking tray.

Then, with our fingertips, we're going to give them a little squeeze.

Squeeze them into shape.

My hand is messy anyway.

I think they look fantastic, don't you guys?

-Yeah!

-They really do, don't they? I love them.

Now it's time to put our tomato spirals in the oven for 15 minutes.

But remember, with ovens beware because it's really hot in there!

So get an adult to help you. Come on, everyone.

James, I love them! Brilliant!

# I can cook! #

Whilst our tomato spirals are cooking, it's time to...

Tidy up!

It's always good to put away So we can use things another day!

Now it's time to remember what we've made today.

# Tomato spirals, oh, here we go With the pastry that goes puff

# Roll it out into a lovely shape Making sure you've got enough

# Spread tomato and grate the cheese Sprinkle over with the basil leaves

# Tomato spirals, oh, here we go It's roly-poly time

# Cut them up Until you see the swirls

# And you can bake them with a rhyme And we go

# Swirly and whirly

# Swirly, whirly, whirl

# Swirly and whirly

# And swirly, whirly whirl. #

# I can cook! #

Our tomato spirals have cooked

but they're too hot to eat at the moment.

Come on, everyone, they've cooled down a bit. Here you go, Nicole.

We've baked and ripped and rolled and spread.

We can cook, we all know how, so it's time to eat our spirals now.

-Yummy.

-Lovely.

-I'm eating a snail.

I love this one.

-Bradley, what did you think of your spirals?

-They're really nice.

-James, what do you think of yours?

-They're excellent.

-Where's it gone?!

-In there.

Our tomato spirals are so delicious.

We did it!

We can cook!

That's it for now, I can't wait to see you all again soon.

Just remember that you can cook too!

It sticks to my lips.

Sally, what else could we put in our tomato spirals?

-Ham.

-Ham!

That'd be really nice.

-Pasta.

-Pasta!

-Strawberries!

-Strawberries!

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