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Prue’s Mushrooms & Kale on Toast

Prue Leith

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Serves: 4

Prep time: 5 mins

Cook time: 5 mins

Ingredients:

4 slices of wholemeal bread

blob of butter

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 large onion, peeled and sliced

4 large field mushrooms (approx. 300g), sliced

4 garlic cloves, sliced

150g kale, roughly chopped

salt and pepper, to season

Veg Portions / Serving: 1

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Recipe donated by Prue Leith for Veg Power. Portrait photography by Mark Bourdillon. Food photography by Claire Wright | addsomeveg.com.

This is very grown-up Mushrooms on Toast. Good for breakfast, lunch or supper. My grand-daughter, age 6, loves it, but I regret to say her brother’s reaction was:“Eurrgh! It’s black and green!”

Method:

Heat the butter and olive oil in a large pan, and in it sweat the onion slowly until soft. Add the mushrooms and garlic to the pan and keep frying, stirring until the mushrooms are cooked. Now add the kale and stir until it softens.

Lightly butter the bread slices or drizzle with a little oil. Then toast them or char on a griddle. Set the slices on warmed plates and pile the mushroom and kale mixture on top. Season with salt and pepper.

Engaging Kids

Engaging Kids

Kids who engage regularly with veg through veg-themed activities, such as arts and crafts, sensory experiences, growing and cooking are shown to be more likely to eat the veg they engage with. Encouraging kids to engage and play with veg is the handy first step to them developing a good relationship with veg and life-long healthy eating.

Kids in the kitchen

Kids in the kitchen

Get the kids to peel the garlic, measure the oil and butter the toast. Pass them the mill to grind the pepper – just keep half an eye out to check the mushrooms won’t be over seasoned!

Activities

Activities

While getting kids to interact with veggies for real and using their senses to explore them is best, encouraging hands off activities like arts & crafts, puzzles & games or at-home science experiments can be a great start, particularly for those who are fussier eaters or struggle with anything too sensory. Use these veg-themed activities as a stepping stone to interacting with the veg themselves. We have loads of crafty downloads here, puzzles here, and quirky science with veg here.

Sensory

Sensory

Once you feel your child is ready to engage a little more, you can show them how to explore the veg you have on hand with their senses, coming up with playful silly descriptions of how a veg smells, feels, looks, sounds and perhaps even tastes. Find ideas, videos and some simple sensory education session ideas to get you started here.

Serving

Serving

The moments before food is offered can be a perfect opportunity for engagement that can help make it more likely a child will eat it! Giving children a sense of ownership in the meal can make a big difference to their feelings going into it and the pride they take in it. You know your child best, but if you aren’t sure where to start, we have some fun and simple ideas for easy roles you can give them in the serving process over here.

Prue Leith

Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Cook, Judge, Writer - latest book ‘PRUE’ - Food Lover.

www.prue-leith.com/

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