Simple ingredients treated with creativity and consideration can make great meals to show love for your family.
Here you can learn how to make a nutritious Spring Blossom Breakfast and Rainbow Drink from a Crowne Plaza Hong Kong Kowloon East chef using healthy ingredients. It’s easy to make so parents and children are encouraged to try cooking together.
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Soft butter recommended for frying pancakes to get uniform colour on pancakes; this also prevents pancakes from sticking to pan.
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Add cream to scrambled eggs for a smoother texture.
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Stir honey before pouring into blender to mix ingredients better.
Ingredients:
Calf – pancakes with fruit and cream | Flour (100g); baking powder (2g); sugar (20g); milk (150ml); butter (15g); egg (1); blueberries (3); strawberries (3); kiwi fruit (half); mango (50g). |
Yellow flower – bell pepper stuffed with eggs | Yellow pepper (45g); eggs (3). |
Bear – croissant with salmon and cheese | Croissants (6); black olive (3 pcs); cheddar cheese (20g); smoked salmon (50g). |
Field – quinoa salad | Corn (50g); beech mushroom (60g); quinoa (90g); olive oil (2 tsp). |
Flower stems – boiled asparagus | Asparagus (12 pcs). |
Sun – carrots and sweet corn cooked in butter | Cob of corn (1); carrots (50g); butter (10g); salt (5g). |
Green flower – bell pepper with scrambled eggs and cherry tomatoes | Green pepper (45g); eggs (2); cherry tomatoes (2). |
Decoration | Cereal in different colours (20g). |
Method︰
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Soft butter is recommended for frying pancakes as it gives a uniform colour and prevents pancakes from sticking to the pan.
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Blend pancake mix. Heat a flat-bottomed pan, add butter and ladle in pancake mix. Cook until both sides of the pancakes are golden brown. Let cool and decorate with fruit to make a calf.
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Heat croissants in an oven. Cut 3 of them into halves for bear paws and add cheese, olives and salmon to the other 3 to make the bear body.
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Boil asparagus spears in water with butter added – they are the plant stems.
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Remove a quarter of the corn from the cob and briefly boil the corn, mushrooms and quinoa in water with butter then take out. Add olive oil and seasoning for the field.
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Cut the cob into 4 pieces and carrots into triangles. Boil in water with salt and butter for the sun.
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Heat a flat-bottomed pan. Cut bell peppers into rings. Add a little olive oil to pan, pour eggs in pepper rings and cook over low heat to make flowers.
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Heat a flat-bottomed pan. Add beaten eggs, stir till cooked and put into green pepper rings. Top with cherry tomatoes to be flowers.
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Decorate with coloured cereal and serve.
Ingredients:
Green | Avocado (3); plain yogurt (120ml); honey (3 tsp); ice cubes (6). |
Yellow | Mango (3); banana (2); orange juice (120ml); honey (3 tsp); ice cubes (6). |
Red | Strawberries (24); banana (1); honey (3 tsp); ice cubes (6). |
Method︰
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Blend avocado and yogurt.
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Add honey and blend.
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Pour out the green part.
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Dice mangoes and bananas.
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Blend mangoes and bananas with honey, orange juice and ice then pour out the yellow part.
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Blend strawberries and bananas.
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Pour out the red part.
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Pour the blends into a glass to make coloured layers.