This week our Mini Chefs (5-7 yrs) will be making – Prawn Noodle Soup

This is a healthy, filling and complete meal in in a bowl. Best of all, we can cook it all in one saucepan!

Noodle soup refers to a variety of soups with noodles and other ingredients served in a light broth.

Noodle soup is common dish across East and Southeast Asia. Various types of noodles are used, such as rice noodles, wheat noodles and egg noodles. Noodle soup is a comforting bowl of fragrant goodness.

Pak choi is one of the many ingredients we will be using and is also known as bok choy, it is a leafy green from the cabbage family. Pak choi is a traditional Asian ingredient, so is often served with oriental flavours such as soy sauce.

The leaves of pak choi should be dark green and the stalks should be rigid and white. Pak choi is a kind of 2-in-1 plant – the dark, thin leaves that sprout at the top cook very quickly and are akin to spinach in consistency. The thicker stalk is firm, crunchy and refreshing. For this reason, it can be tricky to judge the cooking time of pak choi – a good option is to separate the leaves from the stalks and cook the stalks for a couple of minutes, adding the leaves in the last few seconds to wilt down.

In this week’s dish we will be using the following skills:
Weighing, measuring, peeling, squeezing, chopping, cutting, slicing, mixing/combining, boiling/simmering.

See you Saturday Mini Chefs.