Duration: 2 classes

Goal: To cook plantains

Objective: To practice completing cooking tasks.

Activity:
1. The teacher reviews the steps to good cooking. Students get prepared to cook (put on apron, hat, wash their hands, etc).

2. Review the recipe, ingredients and utensils to be used.

3. Divide the class into small groups (with another teacher to assist and observe). Each student is given a task. NOTE: the plantain skin should be peeled before the class begins (optional).

4. Students cook the plantains, eat them, and then clean up the room.

Assessment:
Students write a paragraph about what they learned. The teacher should review examples of a topic sentence that the students can use for their paragraph. Example: I learned a lot in cooking class today.

Materials:
Steps to Good Cooking
Plantain Recipes (see below)
Ingredients
Cooking utensils
Paper products to eat with and for clean-up

Puerto Rican Tostones/Tostones Puertorriqueños

Plantain Patties from Cuba/Tostones de Cuba

Tostones from the Dominican Republic/Tostones de La República Dominicana