Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

SAKGP Garden and Kitchen Programme 

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In Cooking this week 456JC  with Amelia and Jess, we cooked Broad Bean and Greens Wontons with Vegetable Broth and a Dipping Sauce.

We used Broad Beans, Broccoli, Silverbeet, Green Onions, Garlic, Chives and Garlic Chives from the garden and local potatoes.

Amelia and Jess’s groups prepared all the ingredients for the Vegetable Broth and Dipping Sauce and Chris’s group prepared all the vegetables for the Broad Bean and Greens filling for the wontons.

Then everyone had a job to either make the filling or cook the broth.  Angel mashed the potatoes for the filling until it was smooth.  

Hirini and Anais and Patrick podded the Broad Beans and cooked them in boiling water until tender and drained them and added them to the filling mix.

Levi, Sophia and their group prepared and cooked the onions, broccoli, cabbage and silverbeet in the frypan until they were soft, then added the Broad Beans and Greens and stirred the mixture until it was cooked.

Elsie,  Beatrix and their group took the lead in cooking the Vegetable Broth and added a variety of Asian flavours, including Tamari and Seaweed and then added the greens and herbs.  They made sure they tasted it regularly while it cooked to make a delicious broth.

We put all the ingredients for the  broccoli filling into large bowls and mixed it well.

Patrick did a great job cleaning up after each task and organising the dishes for the dishwasher.

To make the wontons we worked together to learn the steps to fold the wontons and everyone did a great job following the instructions. 

Sasha and Dante cooked the wontons in boiling water and did a great job making sure they were cooked and then drained and plated them in the bowls.

While the wontons were cooking, Paige and her group created the delicious dipping sauce, using their secret ingredients including miso, tamari, vinegar, sesame oil and stock powder.  

We ended up making over 100 wontons and everyone enjoyed the delicious Broad Beans and Greens Wontons with the Broth and the dipping sauce.  There was even enough left over for 456JC to enjoy them for their afternoon break.

Well done 456JC and thanks Amelia and Jess for a great cooking session. 

The recipes are attached with the instructions for how to fold the wontons.