Food is an important part of culture, especially on special occasions such as celebrations. As part of our learning experience, we worked in pairs and made our very own festive snack - Honey Cornflakes Cookies. We brought home our cookies to share with our families and friends as well.
The children had another round of “cooking” during their lesson on Indian Food Culture in Singapore.
Chapatti is also known as an unleavened flatbread. Our Indian friends enjoy this bread as much as naan and roti prata. It is a simple dough made from wholemeal flour, salt, water and a little oil. The dough is then cooked on a traditional frying pan called a ‘tava’.
Our teacher, Ms Pereira prepared the chapatti dough and fried the chapatti for us to try. She brought her own ‘tava’ to use. We too had our chance to “make” some chapatti. That’s us “rolling out the dough” and “frying and tossing” the chapatti on the ‘tava