Cooking With Kids - Home Made Tortillas and Omelette

Getting the kids involved in the cooking. It's something I try to do all the time. You are teaching them something they can never lose and also more importantly... Maybe one day they will be making the dinners for us!!

So I thought it would be good to make our own tortillas and throw in an eggy filling. Tortillas were a good choice because they are easy!! Also anything that involves a rolling pin tends to get kids excited!

You can be a bit fast and loose with the measurements and let your little one do it, this is a forgiving recipe!

You will need

200 grams of strong white flour
¼ teaspoon of salt
½ a teaspoon of baking powder
20 grams of butter, just wheek 2 knobs of butter in, no definite amounts here!
100 mls of just boiled water

Couple of eggs for the kiddie filling
Also some chilli paste for the adults ;0)

To make

Get child to measure out the flour.

Help them slice off some butter into cubes

Now let them rub the butter and flour between their fingertips till it's like breadcrumbs!

My daughter loves this bit

Once it's sort of breadcrumb'y

Bung in your boiling water and use a spoon to mix together till it's cools. Then you can get a hand in and squidge it all together.

Tear it into about six balls, or less if you want them bigger.

Flour a surface and flatten one of the balls in your hand

Now let the little tyke loose with the rolling pin and roll them flat!!

Put a pan on a high heat and cook for a minute on each side

Obviously they might not be quite round when you get your daughter's help!

Do this with all your pieces, each time you fry one put it aside in a clean cloth or towel

That's the tortillas!!

Now if you are making a quick lunch for you and the little un mix up a couple of eggs and throw them into the same pan on a lower heat to make a quick omelette.

For the adults you can smear on some chilli paste on one of the Tortillas!!

Then slap on the omelette to a tortilla! Roll it up, slice in half and serve!!

Total double yum!!!

Now they know how, get them to make it every time!! ;0)