Italian
Cauliflower Alfredo with Whole Grain Pasta
The creamy pasta kids ask for, with the cream swapped out for a vegetable they blended themselves.
What your child practised
- Cutting vegetables with a knife
- Boiling pasta on the burner
- Straining hot food
- Blending in a food processor
- Sautéing vegetables
- Peeling garlic from a head and a clove
What we explored
A classic Alfredo is cheese, butter and heavy cream. The kids built the same sauce on a base of blended cauliflower and kept the garlic and cheese flavour.
They tasted both. The interesting part was how few of them could tell which was which.