While you’re stuck at home you will be looking for things to do to keep the kids entertained and cooking is a brilliant activity. Read our article about how to keep the kids entertained and active to find lots of great suggestions for you to try.
One of the suggestions you’ll find in the article is teaching your kids to cook. Cooking together is lots of fun, it is educational, as they are reading and doing maths and it’s a great skill for them to have for the future.
Here at La Reserva we are committed to delivering the very best in family lifestyle. This means organizing fun activities for all the family and preparing delicious food everyone loves to eat. To give you some inspiration of where to start, we asked our Head Chef Javier Robollo to give us two family friendly recipes which they will have lots of fun cooking and enjoy eating too!
We’d love to see your pictures of making these recipes together. Share them on Instagram or Facebook with the hashtag #LaReservaClubatHome
Margarita Pizza
For the pizza dough:
- 250g flour
- 3g salt
- 3g sugar
- 3g olive oil
- 50ml beer
- 100ml warm water
- 6g fresh yeast
For the topping:
- Tomato sauce
- Dried basil
- Fresh tomato, thinly sliced
- Mozzarella
- Fresh Basil
Instructions
Add fresh yeast to warm water.
Mix the dry ingredients – flour, salt and sugar and place on a clean table in the form of a volcano. Add the beer, olive oil and water and yeast. Sprinkle some extra flour to get it off the table if necessary.
Mix and knead carefully with your hands until it is a homogeneous dough. Do not knead too much as the dough will be too elastic.
Place in a bowl and leave to prove for 1 hour at room temperature, covered with a clean cloth.
Preheat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius.
Once it has proved, knock it back and then stretch with your hands until it is as thin as possible and shaped as you wish. You can stretch it directly into your oven tray, but make sure you flour the bottom to avoid it sticking.
Arrange a little tomato sauce on the dough, sprinkle a little dry basil, arrange the thin slices of fresh tomato, finish with the mozzarella sliced thinly, or use grated mozzarella and sprinkle evenly all over the pizza.
Bake for 5 minutes, remove and sprinkle with fresh basil.
Add more toppings according to taste and what you have in the fridge. Great options include black olives, ham, salami, peppers, bacon etc. – the only limit is your imagination! Why not arrange in the shape of a face to make you all smile?
La Reserva’s signature chocolate fondant
Ingredients
- 6 eggs
- 150g icing sugar
- 200g unsalted butter
- 110g self-raising flour
- 220g cooking chocolate
- 5g salt
Instructions
Melt the butter with the chocolate
Mix the eggs, sugar and salt, add the melted butter and chocolate mix and finally the sieved flour.
Mix well and place in small ramekins previously greased with butter.
Bake at 220°C for 5 minutes.
Please note that cooking time will depend on the size of the mould. You want to achieve a crisp outside with a soft, oozing centre.
Remove carefully from the ramekins, decorate with icing sugar on top and serve with vanilla ice cream.
Have a great time making the recipes everyone and we look forward to seeing you back at the La Reserva Kids’ Club or Sunday Brunch for more fun activities very soon! Remember to head over to Instagram and Facebook and follow us and share the results of your cooking with us with the hashtag #LaReservaClubatHome
