Teen Chef Program

South East had it's first ever "Teen Chef" program yesterday and it was a success! We made Garden Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette. In this program we want to keep it healthy and for the first class we decided to keep it easy. We worked on a couple of different skills.

First we chopped up all our vegetables including lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and bell peppers. Each participant go their own cutting board, lettuce knife and salad bowl because we are working on independence in the kitchen.

After all the vegetables were cut up we worked on our vinaigrette. We squeezed our oranges, lemons and grapefruits by hand.

Then we carefully poured the juice into our vinaigrette bowls. After that we added the other ingredients including rice wine vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, salt and zest from our citrus.

Next we whisked all of our vinaigrette ingredients together and poured it all over our salad. The smell of citrus was all around us, yum!

Finally we grated our fresh asiago cheese to top off our salad along with seasoned croutons for a crunch. 

And last but certainly not least we got to taste a little of our hard work and the feedback was very good! The rest of the salad our teen chefs got to take home to enjoy with their families.