Baked Courgette with Parmesan 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 SO yummy, and I can't wait.

-KNOCKING

-Come in!

-Hi, Katy!

-Hi, Katy!

Hello. Hi, Joshua. Hi, William.

Hi, Esha. Hi, Erin.

Thank you all for coming.

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

-Yes!

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

baked courgette with parmesan cheese!

-Doesn't that look yummy, everyone?

-ALL: Yes!

We're nearly ready to start,

but there's one thing we need to do first.

-Do you know what it is?

-Wash our hands!

-Yes.

# Roll up your sleeves Give your hands a wash

# With slippy-dippy soap Splish, splash, splosh

# Have you done your hands? Washed and dried?

# Sleeves rolled up Apron tied

# What can you do? I can cook! #

-Let's get cooking, everyone!

-Yes!

To make our baked courgette,

we need a slice of cooked bacon, which I cooked for you earlier.

Take a clean pair of scissors and snip your bacon up.

But remember, when using scissors, everybody knows

-it's always best to point them at your...

-Toes!

That's it.

You can cut it into different shapes. Triangles, squares.

I made a rectangle.

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

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 our baked courgette is green.

So could it be...

No! We don't want to eat a spiky cactus!

Now, the missing ingredient is green and it's got rounded ends.

So it could be...

No, we're not going to eat a toy snake, are we?

So the missing ingredient is green, has rounded ends

and it looks a little bit like a cucumber.

So could it be...

..a courgette!

The missing ingredient is a courgette. Did you work it out?

We need one of these in our baked courgette dish.

Let's find out how courgettes grow in the I Can Cook garden.

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Everyone, this is the I Can Cook garden.

Where in the garden do you think we'll find courgettes?

Do you think they'll be in the greenhouse?

Will they be growing out of the ground?

Or will they be on a plant? What do you think?

-On a plant.

-They will be.

Shall we go and have a look? Come on, let's go. Over here.

Who can spot the courgettes hiding in the courgette plants?

Can you see them? They're hiding, aren't they?

What do you think the plants look like?

I think they look like octopuses.

The courgettes are ready when they're this size.

That courgette is perfect.

-Do you think that's ready?

-No.

-Why do you think this one's not ready?

-It's too small and thin.

I think we'll use this one. I'm going to use a knife,

but this is what YOU should get an adult to do.

Now we have our courgettes, let's get back to the kitchen.

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

and we're ready to carry on cooking.

Has everyone got their courgette?

ALL: Yes.

Show me. Put it in the air, wave it about.

Now, you see the nobbly bit on the end?

We're going to snap that off. Like that, snap it off.

-Ooh.

-Oh!

-THEY LAUGH

-Yay.

-that's it, good job. Well done, William.

Now, we hold it like handlebars,

like this, and we snap it like a crocodile. Snap!

Next, we're going to do some grating.

We need to work in pairs. Esha, you can be my partner.

We're going to put one person's courgette in the grater.

Put in mine.

One person's going to push and the other turns the handle.

Do you want to be the pusher

and I'll turn the handle? Let's get grating!

That's it. Push really hard, Esha.

-Can you see it all coming out?

-Yeah.

That's it. Once you've grated all your courgette, we put it in a dish.

Pour it in.

Then we'll keep going until everybody's courgette's grated.

Turn it round. That's it, really hard.

-What do the bits of courgette look like?

-A 1,000-legged octopus!

Nyeow! Ready?

If you've got any extra bits, you can scrape them out with a fork.

That's it, Esha. Brilliant.

There you go, Esha. You do it.

Muscle man!

Do you like turning the wheel, William? What does it remind you of?

Riding a bicycle.

-Riding your bicycle?

-Like wheels going round on my bicycle.

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Once our courgette's been grated, we put it into a dish

that can go in the oven.

-I've oiled yours for you, so shall we put it in?

-Yes.

Take your bowl of courgette and sprinkle it in.

That's it. Use your fingers to get it out of the bowl if you want.

Then spread it around at the bottom.

It looks a bit like grass at the bottom of your dish.

Like a Jelly Bean field.

Like in Sweet Land.

We scatter our bacon shapes onto the top of the courgette.

If you don't want to use bacon, you can use any vegetable you want.

That's it, scatter them about.

And who can do pinchy fingers, like this?

-Can you go, "mwa, mwa, mwa"?

-Mwa, mwa, mwa!

Can you get your pinchy fingers out at home, like this?

We're going to pinch some pepper from our little pot

and sprinkle it on top of our courgette and bacon.

I did it.

Now, we put our dish to the side and bring in a bowl of yoghurt.

We're going to make a snowy-white mixture.

We're going to start by crumbling some feta cheese into our bowl.

Squeeze it with your fingers and crumble it in. Eugh, all sticky!

It's like a wash. It's like soap for your hands.

-But cheesy soap.

-Yeah.

There's all sorts of different types of cheese.

We've just used feta cheese. Now, we're using grated parmesan.

So take your parmesan, and we're going to sprinkle that in too.

That's really good.

Before we mix it, we need pinchy fingers out again.

We're going to pinch a bit more pepper and sprinkle it in.

Next, we give it a really good stir.

Take your fork, everyone, and give it a good mix.

Can you pretend to mix with us at home, like this? Whizz!

There we go! All creamy.

That is excellent, Erin. Well done.

I think you can whizz it a bit faster.

Really fast.

And now, we're going to take an egg and a cup and crack it open.

We're going to knock on the door, know, knock, knock,

and out pops the egg.

-Mine isn't coming out.

-There.

-There we go.

-That's it.

-Oh!

-Oh, man!

Now, we're going to whisk up our egg with our fork. Ready?

-Whisk it up really fast.

-Nye-ow!

-We-e-e-aw!

-Everyone done?

Take your yoghurt mix and pour your egg into the yoghurt.

That's it. Then, we stir it around with our fork.

Give it a really good stir to mix it all together.

I'm trying to get rid of all the lumps.

That's a brilliant idea. Well done.

I always try to do that, but I can't.

Now you have a nice gloopy mixture, like this.

We're going to pour it all over our bacon and courgette.

-Ready, everyone?

-Yes.

-Three, two, one, pour!

It's time to put our baked courgette into a hot oven for 20 minutes.

Remember, with ovens beware, because it's hot in there.

Get an adult to help. Come on, everyone.

Thank you, Esha, that looks fantastic.

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Whilst our baked courgette is cooking, it's time to...

ALL: Tidy up!

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

It's time to remember what we've made.

# Oil a dish with a swish, swish, swish

# Cut up the bacon with a snip, snip, snip

# Wash the courgettes with a splish, splash, splosh

# And slice them into pieces with a chop, chop, chop

# Pop them in the grater, round and round

# And into the dish, spread them around

# Scatter all the bacon over the veg

# Scatter, scatter, scatter Right to the edge

# And now we make our creamy sauce

# Parmesan, feta and yoghurt, of course

# Stir it, mix it, crack it, beat it

# Whisk it, blend it

# Cook it, eat it

# Pour the gloopy mix over the dish. #

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Our baked courgettes have cooked.

While they cool down...

ALL: Let's lay the table!

Our baked courgette with parmesan is ready.

The waiting is over, enough of this talk!

Let's taste what we've made with a knife and fork. Dig in!

-Erin, what's your favourite part?

-I like the cheesy top.

-William, what's the best bit of yours?

-All of it.

Our baked courgette with parmesan is delicious.

We did it!

ALL: We can cook!

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

And just remember that YOU can cook, too!

Come on, everyone, eat up.

-Joshua, which bit did you like best today?

-When I was

doing the grating with the handle.

-Alyssa, which bit did you like doing best?

-Cracking the egg.

Cracking the egg.

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