Basque recipes
In this activity you will be visiting web pages in Basque and you will look for recipes. Then you will be able to create your own cookbook.
How is a recipe organized?
What useful information do you need to cook a dish?
Go to the web page and select one recipe Basque recipes
Write down the information in Basque or English.
- Title of recipe?_____________________________
- Type of food?_____________________________
- Which ingredients are probably at home?_____________________________
- Which ingredients do you need to buy?_____________________________
- Which ingredients do you think may be difficult to find in your supermarket?_____________________________
- What tasks (verbs and actions) will you need to perform to prepare the dish?_____________________________
- How long will it take to prepare and cook the dish?_____________________________
- Now you can examine measures.
- What items have measures?_____________________________
- What are the measurements?_____________________________
- Work on vocabulary and provide a Basque-English key cooking terms and ingredients. Rewrite the recipe in Basque. Create your own cookbook. Put this recipe in a binder and keep adding recipes.
- At home you can prepare the recipe and report to the class how it was.
Finally you will look for information on Basque cuisine, answer the questions below and report your findings back to the class.Basque gastronomy
- 1. What are the main ingredients?_____________________________
- 2. What are the similarities between Basque and American dishes?_____________________________
- 3. What are the differences?_____________________________
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