Tips and ideas for choosing exam recipes
(3 course meal showing good use of fruit and vegetables)
Skill levels:
Higher level skills Medium level skills Basic level skills
Pastry making – short Basic bread dough Products using bought
crust, choux, sweet Simple cakes, biscuits, sauces etc
Roux sauces (not all in cookies, scones Crumbles
one) Dishes with even-sized Sandwiches (not for 3
Meringues/Pavlova fruit or vegetables course meal)
Meat & fish cookery – if Cheesecakes or similar Pizza using ready made
cooked very carefully, desserts base
stuffed/with sauce, etc Pastry items using ready Filled jacket potatoes
Decorated made pastry but needing Simple salads / side
cakes/gateaux shaping/rolling salad
Rich yeast dough Simple sauces Blended items needing
Complex garnishes and rough chopping
accompaniments
These ideas are probably a bit too easy, but are a selection from the school website recipe list.
Look at the coursework links and find other recipes to suit the exam.
Starters
Soup
Stuffed mushrooms
Golden vegetable soup
French onion soup
Soups needing blending show basic skills; soups with vegetables cut evenly and left whole are a medium skill
Bread rolls made from scratch, not a bread mix – as an accompaniment
Prawn cocktail (basic skills)
Main course
Bolognese with added vegetables (basic skills)
Curry with added vegetables
Chicken casserole
Stir fry – any variation – vegetables must be cut evenly, possibly serve with fish/chicken/meat that is cooked well as a
whole piece?
Pizza with vegetable toppings – make own base from scratch
Chicken Caribbean
Cheese and potato bake – individual portions? Piped mashed potato? Could do this on a fish pie/shepherd’s pie
Cauliflower cheese – roux method for sauce
Creamy chicken and mushroom
Salmon and leek fishcakes with tomato and red onion salad
Pasta with bacon and spinach
Variety of pasta dishes using a home made sauce
Lasagne – include vegetables, make own cheese sauce
Risotto
Savoury pies – may have a creamy sauce that needs making, can make own pastry or use bought
Kebabs showing good use of vegetables, simple sauce, rice to serve?
Spanish omelette
Sweet and sour chicken with added vegetables – vegetables cut evenly as in stir fry, make own sauce
Quiche with vegetable fillings – make own pastry for higher skills marks
Desserts
Apple crumble
Apple tart – make own pastry
Apple and lemon tart – make own pastry
Apple puff tartlets
Fruit fool
Fruit filled tartlets – make own short crust pastry
Fresh fruit salad – fruit must be evenly and neatly cut
Apple charlotte
Cakes decorated with fruit/cream (higher skills for piping)
Banana and walnut slices – served with custard as a pudding
Sponge fruit flan – whisked sponge filled with fruit, piped cream?
Trifle – with fresh fruit? Piped cream?
Swiss roll with fruit filling – could also pipe cream on the top?