Life skills: Making burgers

Burger fun

by Anita Bhattrai

1 November 2017

Today we had cooking class: we made burgers! We were very excited. We had made milkshake, white bread, brown bread, cornmeal bread, millet bread, buckwheat bread, pizza, hot dogs, plum jam, orange marmalade, litchi jam, and tomato sauce as well as cookies and many other things.

  

First we went to buy the ingredients we needed like buns, lettuce, and chicken mincemeat. We already had the sauce and the mayonnaise. We got lettuce from Saleways departmental store. We got the buns fresh from a local store. We walked far far away and got the chicken mince: the shopkeeper made the chicken boneless right in front of us and made the mince with his big meat chopper by hand.

Once back, we went excitedly to the kitchen. Utu cleaned the lettuce in water several times. Eena cut the buns in half and Utu went to help and cut one of them diagonally so he had to be chased away. Shila poured mayonnaise into a bowl while Vidheha poured tomato sauce in a bowl.

I helped make the chicken patties as Sabita didi fried them. Because kids would be eating it, we made the meat thin and cooked it well calling them chicken roti instead ha-ha! We made many many patties. 



Amulya and Bishesh were busy looking cute and holding everything as if they would not get their share! We had shred the lettuce into tiny little pieces because the kids would not have eaten them otherwise.





After all that we went to the dining room and started placing the ingredients together. The idea was to have the kids do it but they started making a mess so Sabita didi had to help us. After she made a couple, we tried putting burgers together too. 

I think they turned out good and healthy even though everyone wanted a lot of sauce and meat and no greens!   

The kids said that they only wanted sauce and no mayonnaise but they had to have everything didn’t they? Soon they would say we don’t want buns! And now it was time to eat. It was a great burger and was tasty. Yum Yum!

Vidheha thought that if she ate from both sides it would taste better she was a bit disappointed that it still tasted the same from both sides but she still thought it was yummy.