Create Your Own: Any Organic Greens Pesto

Have you eaten pesto before? Traditionally, pesto recipes are made with basil. In this recipe, we encourage you to experiment with different kinds of greens and herbs! In this lesson, you will practice the cooking skill of emulsifying by making a pesto.

Student Learning Goals & Objectives:

Make choices in the ingredients of their recipes and reflect on those selections.

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Create your own: any organic greens pesto

Teaching Notes:

If students are completing this lesson as part of the kitchen curriculum, Cooking with Curiosity: Challenging Perfection with Reflection this lesson is 3.4, the fourth lesson of unit 3.
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