Listening to Recipes

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Food & Eating: Activities

A LIST OF QUIZZES ON FOOD

Junk Food
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Reading a menu
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A Diner
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Food Quantifiers
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At a restaurant: Check your grammar skills
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Prepositions of Location
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Kitchen vocabulary
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What kind of food is it?
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Cooking pasta
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Supermarket vocabulary
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Verb review
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Writing Recipes

Chicken Kiev

Cook Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients:

* 4 whole chicken breasts
* 1/2 cup bread crumbs
* 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
* 1 1/2 teaspoons oregano leaves
* 1/2 teaspoon crushed garlic
* 1/4 teaspoon pepper
* 4 tablespoons softened butter
* 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
* 4 ounces cheese (any sharp cheese) cut into strips
* 5 ounces melted butter

Preparation:

1. Pound chicken breasts until 1/4 inch thin
2. Mix together in a bowl bread crumbs, grated Parmesan cheese, 1 teaspoon of oregano, crushed garlic, and pepper.
3. In small bowl, stir together 4 tablespoons of melted butter, parsley and 1/2 teaspoon of oregano
4. Spread melted butter mixture across the middle of each chicken breast
5. Lay a strip of cheese into the mixture
6. Fold the edges of the chicken breast over and roll the chicken breast
7. Dip each chicken breast into the melted butter
8. Roll each chicken breast in the bread crumb mixture
9. Place chicken breasts in a 9 by 13 inch baking pan
10. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours
11. Bake, uncovered, in a preheated 425° oven for 20 minutes

Important Vocabulary and Measurements

1 inch = 2.54 centimeters
Bake = cook in oven
Cook Time = time needed to cook meal
Cuisine = which country or tradition the meal comes from
Cup = 250 ml
Dip = put into liquid
Grated = in tiny little flakes
Mix = usually with dry ingredients, combining ingredients
Occasion = appropriate time or meal
Pound = beat flat
Prep Time = time needed to prepare meal
Refrigerate = put into refrigerator
Spread = put onto with a knife
Stir = usually with liquid ingredients, combining ingredients
Strip = thin, long piece
Tablespoon = 15 ml
Teaspoon = 5 ml
Type of Preparation = how to cook meal