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MY INSPIRATION FOR THE 3 COURSE MEAL:
STARTER: Beetroot Salad
Growing up, we always made salad with basic ingredients that seemed
boring and frankly, plain. This food practical has allowed me to really
indulge in my creativity and explore the different ways to prepare and
present food. In this salad, I added vegetables, fruit, cheeses and seeds.
The salad is nutritious and looked very colourful in the end. These days I
like to roast beetroot, I think it is especially good roasted, it has an earthy
taste but also a sweetness and once roasted, beetroot has a lovely smooth
texture. This roasted beetroot salad is high in fibre and is bursting with flavour, contains good
fats – seeds, nuts. It truly helps give a light start to a heavy main meal and dessert!
MAIN MEAL: Chicken & Veg Pizza
Homemade pizza involves precision, attention to detail and love! I
dedicated myself to make pizza my main meal as it challenges me.
Making dough requires manual effort and correct measurement. I made
half a veg and half a chicken pizza in one. This added variety and made
my main meal vegetarian friendly.
DESSERT: Chocolate Mousse
Chocolate mousse makes a wonderful dessert as it is rich, airy and light. It also looks very
professional and intricate to the eye. You can never have enough!
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METHOD AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE
BEETROOT SALAD (STARTER)
Challenges and crisis management:
● I found it slightly difficult to paint the salad dressing onto the plate, it took me a few tries,
and then I had a lightbulb moment to use masking tape whereby I would paint in the
desired area, using a pastry brush.
● I used too little green colouring for the mayonnaise, and had to add more in order to get
the appropriate rich-green colour.
● When cutting the oranges, I accidentally cut too deep in the skin which made the juice
flow out a bit more than desired. I then placed the oranges on a towel to dry out. When I
placed it in my salad, it did not soak the salad, but gave it a pleasant citrus touch.
Equipment:
❖ Colander
❖ Chef’s knife
❖ Oven pan
❖ Pastry brush
❖ Cutting board
❖ non-stick frying pan
❖ Scissors
❖ Fork
❖ Serrated Knife
❖ Masking tape
❖ Paper towel
❖ metal mixing spoon
Ingredients:
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❏ 1 red onion
❏ 3 beetroots
❏ 1 orange
❏ Handful pumpkin seeds
❏ handful croutons
❏ 1 punnet pre-washed lettuce
❏ Handful of walnuts
❏ Slab haloumi cheese
❏ Handful of mint leaves
❏ Salad dressing
❏ A dash green colouring
❏ 1 cup flour
❏ 1 egg
❏ Olive oil
❏ Pinch of Salt
❏ Pinch of Pepper
Texture, taste, shape, appearance (colour)
➔ Texture: The salad had a leafy texture from the lettuce, grainy texture from the pumpkin
seeds, crunchy/crispy texture from the walnuts and croutons, meaty texture from the
beetroot, slight sliminess from the onion, smoothness of the oranges and lasty, chewy
texture from the haloumi cheese.
➔ Taste: The salad overall had a blend of sweet-sour from the oranges, roasty flavour
emitting from beetroot, savoury taste from onion and croutons, garden-like flavours
came from the pumpkin seeds and to top it off, minty flavour from the mint leaves.
➔ Shape: The salad was presented diagonally along the plate. The beetroot was cut into
wedges, oranges in segments, onion in thin circular rings, walnuts in halves, lettuce was
broken up into tiny fragments.
➔ Appearance: The salad was laid in a diagonal manner along the painted salad dressing
travelling along the center of the plate. The croutons, salad dressing and haloumi
cheese gave the salad a bright colour.
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MY INSPIRATION FOR THE 3 COURSE MEAL:
STARTER: Beetroot Salad
Growing up, we always made salad with basic ingredients that seemed
boring and frankly, plain. This food practical has allowed me to really
indulge in my creativity and explore the different ways to prepare and
present food. In this salad, I added vegetables, fruit, cheeses and seeds.
The salad is nutritious and looked very colourful in the end. These days I
like to roast beetroot, I think it is especially good roasted, it has an earthy
taste but also a sweetness and once roasted, beetroot has a lovely smooth
texture. This roasted beetroot salad is high in fibre and is bursting with flavour, contains good
fats – seeds, nuts. It truly helps give a light start to a heavy main meal and dessert!
MAIN MEAL: Chicken & Veg Pizza
Homemade pizza involves precision, attention to detail and love! I
dedicated myself to make pizza my main meal as it challenges me.
Making dough requires manual effort and correct measurement. I made
half a veg and half a chicken pizza in one. This added variety and made
my main meal vegetarian friendly.
DESSERT: Chocolate Mousse
Chocolate mousse makes a wonderful dessert as it is rich, airy and light. It also looks very
professional and intricate to the eye. You can never have enough!
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METHOD AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE
BEETROOT SALAD (STARTER)
Challenges and crisis management:
● I found it slightly difficult to paint the salad dressing onto the plate, it took me a few tries,
and then I had a lightbulb moment to use masking tape whereby I would paint in the
desired area, using a pastry brush.
● I used too little green colouring for the mayonnaise, and had to add more in order to get
the appropriate rich-green colour.
● When cutting the oranges, I accidentally cut too deep in the skin which made the juice
flow out a bit more than desired. I then placed the oranges on a towel to dry out. When I
placed it in my salad, it did not soak the salad, but gave it a pleasant citrus touch.
Equipment:
❖ Colander
❖ Chef’s knife
❖ Oven pan
❖ Pastry brush
❖ Cutting board
❖ non-stick frying pan
❖ Scissors
❖ Fork
❖ Serrated Knife
❖ Masking tape
❖ Paper towel
❖ metal mixing spoon
Ingredients:
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❏ 1 red onion
❏ 3 beetroots
❏ 1 orange
❏ Handful pumpkin seeds
❏ handful croutons
❏ 1 punnet pre-washed lettuce
❏ Handful of walnuts
❏ Slab haloumi cheese
❏ Handful of mint leaves
❏ Salad dressing
❏ A dash green colouring
❏ 1 cup flour
❏ 1 egg
❏ Olive oil
❏ Pinch of Salt
❏ Pinch of Pepper
Texture, taste, shape, appearance (colour)
➔ Texture: The salad had a leafy texture from the lettuce, grainy texture from the pumpkin
seeds, crunchy/crispy texture from the walnuts and croutons, meaty texture from the
beetroot, slight sliminess from the onion, smoothness of the oranges and lasty, chewy
texture from the haloumi cheese.
➔ Taste: The salad overall had a blend of sweet-sour from the oranges, roasty flavour
emitting from beetroot, savoury taste from onion and croutons, garden-like flavours
came from the pumpkin seeds and to top it off, minty flavour from the mint leaves.
➔ Shape: The salad was presented diagonally along the plate. The beetroot was cut into
wedges, oranges in segments, onion in thin circular rings, walnuts in halves, lettuce was
broken up into tiny fragments.
➔ Appearance: The salad was laid in a diagonal manner along the painted salad dressing
travelling along the center of the plate. The croutons, salad dressing and haloumi
cheese gave the salad a bright colour.
