Cooking with Teenagers

crazyhazy

Has anyone got any good ideas of recipes for teenagers to get involved with the cooking? Am in the middle of putting together a healthy pack for my mum to encourage her to eat more healthily and wanted to include some recipes that my brother would be able to help with. Unfortunately my mind has gone blank! He's nearly 15 so alot of the websites I have found are aimed at much younger children. I'm looking for easy, healthy ideas of things which he'll find interesting to make, so far I've thought of pizzas and soup cos he loves both and they're quite easy.

scuzz

How about some pasta recipes?

Or curry?

Or Chilli con Carne?

crazyhazy

thanks will pop a curry recipe in cos I know he likes that and maybe tuna pasta.

competitionscafe

Homemade burgers? (with lean beef) Once they taste that they may never visit MCD or BK again.

crazyhazy

competitionscafe wrote:

Homemade burgers? (with lean beef) Once they taste that they may never visit MCD or BK again.

do you have a recipe? It's been ages since I made them.

squeaky

We've got a thread on HM burgers somewhere abouts - I'll go look and edit back in...

..HM Burgers

culpepper

My son enjoys making bolognaise and shepheards pie.
He also likes making the occassional cake.
DD likes to make risoto.

frosty

my son loves helping in the kitchen,tuna mixed with salad cream,with a baked potato and lots of colourful salad is his favourite.

Iona_Penny

Chicken, peppers, onion etc to stir fry with a tex-mex seasoning and put into tortilla wraps.

Sarahsaver

oh thank goodness I thought there was some cannibalism going on.
I used to teach teenagers and as part of a language lesson they had to write and make recipes. They love making fruit salad, spicy salsa, lime cookies and also mixed salad. Don't presume that all teenagers want is fast food. Kids get a great deal of comfort out of a 'proper' sunday roast. Given a taste of 'proper food' most will go for it.

frugalfairy_3

My son has just left home for uni and before he went I gave him a crash course in cooking. I'd already done this a couple of years ago but he's not been very enthusiastic since so I thought a refresher course would help.

He made shepherd's pies, lasagne, chicken fajitas, bolognese, HM pizza and a beef casserole, all of which turned out really well and which seem to have done the trick, I have had several text messages from him asking advice on quantities, timings etc and he seems to be a hit amongst his starving flatmates. He keeps sending me thank you notes so I must have done something right