Cheese and Vegetable Pasties I Can Cook

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Hello! Lovely to see you. I'm getting ready for today's recipe.

It's going to be really tasty and I can't wait.

KNOCK AT DOOR Come in.

-Hello, Archie!

-Hello.

-Hi, Amelia, come in.

-Hello.

-Come in, Alfie, hello.

Hi, Sydney. Do you want to know what tasty recipe we're cooking?

ALL: Yes!

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

Cheese and vegetable pasties. Doesn't that look tasty?

ALL: Yes.

There's one thing we need to do first. Do you know what?

ALL: 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.

ALL: Yes!

The first ingredient we need is puff pastry.

It's called that as when you put it in the oven, it puffs up.

LAUGHTER

Can you do a puff face, like this?

That's really good!

Before that, we need to sprinkle flour over our mats.

Ready to go? Three, two, one, go!

Snow storm!

Now we're going to take our puffy pastry

and plonk it on our mat, like that. OK?

It's not heavy.

Can you show me your rolling pin?

It's our magic wand. Can you make it a magic wand?

We're going to roll it out. Ready?

Let's roll out our puff pastry and make it as big as our mat.

That's it. To and fro, to and fro, rolling, rolling as we go.

Mine's getting a bit sticky.

If yours gets a bit sticky, you can sprinkle more flour on it.

I'm going to turn it over so the other side gets more flour.

That's a good idea, Archie.

We want to make it nice and big

because we'll cut out four big shapes in a minute.

I'm going to turn it sideways.

You can do that, Archie, if you want.

Next, we're going to take a pastry cutter like this

and make four big circles.

My cutter has got a round and crinkly edge,

but you can use any cutter and shape you like.

Ready to start cutting?

That's it. Now press down really hard

and then let go.

-Ta-da!

-Ta-da!

Keep going until you've got four pastry shapes.

That is perfect! Well done, Archie.

It's a bit thin.

Alfie, yours are fantastic as well. They look really good.

What do you think we'll need next?

I know! Let's put 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 cheese and vegetable pasties

can be found outside, so could it be...

My tennis racket? I've been looking for that everywhere!

We can't eat a tennis racket!

Let me give you another clue.

The missing ingredient is green, so could it be...

A green pudding?

It looks tasty, but I don't think it's the missing ingredient.

I'll give you one last clue.

The missing ingredient is going to make us really, really strong.

So could it be...?

Spinach! The missing ingredient is spinach.

It's very good for you. We'll need spinach in our pasties,

so let's go and find out how it grows in the I Can Cook garden.

GIGGLING

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GIGGLING

This is the I Can Cook garden.

Can everyone see my spinach growing? Can you see it?

Spinach grows out the ground and it's got

lovely, shiny, green leaves. Aren't they lovely?

How do we know when it is ready to pick?

-When they're in circles.

-In circles?

-Or when they're really big.

You can, but do you know what the best thing is?

You can also pick them when they're small.

Who wants to pick? ALL: Yeah!

Well, I've got some scissors. You need to be careful with them.

We hold the spinach and we snip it off at the bottom.

Just like that.

Snip, snip, snip.

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

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We've washed our hands and our spinach and we're in the kitchen

and we're ready to start cooking again.

We've put two of our pastry circles

on a baking tray with some baking paper. The others are on a plate.

We'll use that a bit later on. Everyone, ready to do

the next step? ALL: Yeah.

-Take our spinach...

-Rip it up.

That's right. We'll rip up our spinach into tiny little bits.

Like tearing paper.

Can you sprinkle them in? It's like leaves falling from the sky. Whee!

It's raining leaves.

It's raining leaves, that's right.

GIGGLING

Keep ripping, that's good, into lots of tiny bits.

Now we're going to take some grated cheese,

and we're going to add it to our spinach.

So sprinkle it from the top again, and now it's raining cheese.

OK.

It's raining cheese.

-I do it like this.

-You could do it like that.

You can do it anyway you want to.

-Yum, yum.

-That's brilliant. And now we're going to add

ratatouille, which is made out of vegetables,

and is really yummy. Take your ratatouille,

and we're going to pour it in with the cheese and the spinach.

It's a bit sticky.

Alfie, that's fantastic, well done.

You can use your spoon if it's a bit sticky.

Can everyone show me their pinchy fingers?

Can you go bink, bink, bink?

Can you pretend it's a talking mouth? Go, "Hello, how are you?"

And we're going to pinch some nutmeg and nutmeg

is a delicious spice that will add lots of yummy flavour to our pasties.

All of it?

No, just a little pinch. Just a little pinch. That's it.

Now we're going to give it a really big stir.

Take your spoon,

and stir all of the ingredients round in a bowl.

Give it a really good stir, everyone, that's it.

That's it. Can you pretend to be stirring at home like this?

Can you whizz it around?

I'm doing it super fast. As fast as I can do it. Here it comes.

GIGGLING

Now we're going to put our bowl to the side, everyone,

and we'll bring our pastry circles back to our mat.

Now we're going to make teeny tiny little pixie steps

all over our pastry circles. You can do lots or you can just do a few.

But remember to be really, really light and gentle.

Also do the ones on the plate -

don't forget pastry circles on the plate.

-Gabby, those are fantastic! They're brilliant.

-Are mine?

That's very good, you've got loads. GIGGLING

-This one is done.

-OK. Take your mixture,

and get a little spoonful,

and we're going to make a little island on each

of the circles on our tray, like this. Look.

Remember to leave space around the edge - we'll need it later.

-That's really good. Have you got lots of space around the edge?

-Yes.

Brilliant. Now we're going to take a pastry brush,

we're going to dip it in some water and paint all around our island,

a bit like painting the sea.

-What do you think it's like, the water around the island?

-Sticky.

-It's all sticky.

-I can get in the gaps.

The water will act like glue,

because we'll take the other pastry circles

and we're going to put the islands to bed.

Cover them up, everyone.

And now we're all going to say goodnight

to them, everyone. ALL: Goodnight.

We'll pat them around the edges and take our fingers for a little walk.

GIGGLING

Next, we're going to dab a little bit of water on top of our islands.

So that's it. Take a little bit more water,

and dab it all over.

Now we're going to sprinkle some cheese on top -

the water is going to make all the cheese stick.

Sprinkle cheese on top of your pasties, everyone.

That's it, Sydney, that's really good, well done.

Has everyone finishing sprinkling? ALL: Yes.

It's time to put our cheese and vegetable pasties in an oven

for 15 minutes. Remember, with ovens,

beware, it's hot in there! Get an adult to help.

Come on, bring your pasties.

Thank you.

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Whilst our pasties are cooking, it's time to...

ALL: Tidy up!

It's always good to put away, so we can use things another day.

Time to remember what we've made today.

# Cheese and vegetable pasties are a brilliant mix

# If you learn how to make them, you could bake five or six

# Cheese and pepper and nutmeg give it flavour and spice

# The puff pastry will cook to make it taste real nice

# But we're forgetting something now

# Our green spinach from the garden

# Yeah, yeah

# Now we cut out the circles Put the island on top

# Paint the ocean around it Now just look what we've got

# Now you cover the island with the circular pastry

# Go pat, pat round the edges It's going to be tasty

# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. #

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Our pasties have cooked! While they cool down...

ALL: Let's lay the table!

Our cheese and vegetable pasties have cooled down and are ready to eat.

The waiting is over, enough of this talk,

let's taste what we've cooked with a knife and fork. Come on.

Mmm.

It looks really green inside.

-Sydney, what do you think of your pasty?

-Brilliant.

-Archie, what do you think of your pasty?

-Really good.

Delicious!

We did it!

ALL: We can cook!

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

and remember, you can cook too!

-Sydney, what's your favourite part of the pasty?

-The vegetables.

You like the vegetables?

KATY LAUGHS You've got your mouth full!

-Amelia, what's your favourite part of the pasty?

-All of it.

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