Cooking With Children & Chicken Tenders Recipe

Child & Adult Care Food Program

8 Tips for Safe Cooking With Children

1. Always wash your hands before cooking.

2. Teach your child to help you in the kitchen.

3. Keep your child safe by watching them carefully.

4. Keep raw and cooked foods apart.

5. Keep cold food cold in the refrigerator.

6. Cook food until it is done, and keep hot food hot.

7. Have you child help you clean up.

8. Praise and thank your child for helping.

Your child will have fun helping you in the kitchen and will want to taste the foods that you cook together! Your child will make more of a mess, but helping you clean up is a good lesson also. Let your child help prepare the recipe below.

Chicken Tenders

Yields: 5 cups         Serves: 8 adults

Ingredients

½ medium chopped onion (½ cup)

1 small chopped red pepper (½ cup) optional

1½ pounds boneless, skinless chicken

½ cup seasoned bread crumbs

2 teaspoons vegetable oil

10¾-ounce can low-fat cream of chicken soup

1 cup low fat (1% or less) milk

1 cup frozen or canned peas

Steps

1. Cut ends off onion half. Peal onion and throw away ends and skin.  Chop onions into small pieces
2. Wash red pepper. Cut pepper open, remove stem and seeds.  Throw away stem and seeds. Chop pepper into small pieces.
3. Rinse chicken under running water. Then slice chicken into ½-inch strips.
4. Add bread crumbs to plastic bag. Add chicken strips to the bag, and shake to coat chicken with the crumbs.
5. Heat oil in a large frying pan on medium heat. Add chopped onion and pepper and cook for 2 minutes.
6. Add chicken to the frying pan. Cook for 3 to 5 minutes to brown chicken.
7. Add cream of chicken soup and low-fat milk to the frying pan, and stir well.
8. Add peas to the frying pan. Cover and cook on low heat for 10 minutes to finish cooking the chicken.
9. Serve over cooked rice or noodles. Enjoy!

Have your child help you do the bold steps.