Resources

Cooking Session 12: Curry to Go!

This Licence to Cook practical session is about making a simple curry dish in one pan. It demonstrates the use of simple pieces of equipment in the preparation of a dish that students could easily prepare at home. During this session, students can make a spinach, potato and chickpea curry, lamb korma or Thai green...

Cooking Session 13: Celebration

This Licence to Cook practical session focuses on using the creaming method to make a simple cake. It provides the opportunity to use a hand-held electric mixer, although students can make this mixture using a wooden spoon. Weighing and measuring are important aspects of this session, as quantities need to be...

Cooking Session 14: Rice

This Licence to Cook practical session focuses on cooking with rice, revisiting many skills and techniques and allowing students to make dishes at school that they can easily recreate at home. During this session, students can make either a mushroom risotto or savoury rice.

These recipes demonstrate the...

Cooking Session 15: Stir Fry Crazy

This Licence to Cook practical session aims to build students' confidence and independence in the kitchen, offering the opportunity to learn new skills and techniques which can lead to preparing and cooking a range of main meals.

During this session, students can make either a sizzling stir-fry or fajitas....

Cooking Session 16: Meal Appeal

This is the final practical session in the Licence to Cook course, and it is expected that students should be confident and competent in preparing and cooking a range of different dishes before this lesson. During this session, students consolidate their understanding by preparing and cooking a main meal, such as a...

Cooking Session 1: Getting to Grips

This is the introductory cooking session for the Licence to Cook Course. It allows students to become familiar with the cooking area and provides an opportunity to assess their practical capability.

During the session, students make either a fruit fusion or dippy divers. The recipes do not require the...

Cooking Session 2: Top Toastie

This Licence to Cook practical session allows students to learn how to use the grill safely, as well as handling and preparing a range of ingredients. During the session, students will make either a croque-monsieur or pizza toast.

These recipes help to consolidate the safe use of a knife, as well as...

Cooking session 3: brilliant baking

This Licence to Cook practical session introduces students to the safe use of the oven, as well as consolidating the use of other pieces of equipment. During this session, students make either fruity flapjacks or tropical granola bars. These recipes have been chosen as they use the oven and/or the hob and require...

Cooking Session 4: Soup-er!

This Licence to Cook practical session allows students to build confidence in using the hob. Although the hob may have been used before, this session concentrates on its safe use. In addition, it consolidates knife skills through the preparation of a variety of different vegetables. During this session, students...

Cooking Session 5: Batch Bake

During this Licence to cook practical session, students make courgette and cheese muffins, fruit muffins or mini fruit cakes. These recipes demonstrate combining ingredients (with the all-in-one method), accurate weighing and measuring and using the oven.

Writing frames are provided for students to record...