Unit 3
Date: Date:
Annie is reading a recipe. Complete the recipe by circling the correct words.
1 ❶ ( Beat / Mix / Spread ) soy sauce, salt, Shaoxing wine and spice
powder together in a bowl. ❷ ( Beat / Sprinkle / Stir ) the mixture
well with a teaspoon until you cannot feel the salt in it.
2 ❸ (Mix / Spread / Stir ) the sauce evenly all over the chicken. Put the
chicken in the fridge overnight.
3 ❹ ( Bake / Boil / Fry ) some water. Then ❺ ( mix / pour / sprinkle )
the hot water over the lotus leaves and some dried black mushrooms
separately. Leave them in the water until they become soft.
4 To prepare the stuffing, ❻ ( beat / chop / mix ) the softened black
mushrooms, garlic cloves, ginger, spring onions and meat into small
pieces with a knife.
5 ❼ ( Bake / Fry / Spread ) the mixture in a pan for about three
minutes. ❽ (Boil / Sprinkle / Stir ) some salt, sesame oil and Shaoxing
wine over the mixture towards the end. Stuff the chicken with the
mixture.
6 Wrap the chicken in lotus leaves and tie it up with strings. Then cover
it with clay.
7 ❾ ( Bake / Boil / Fry ) the chicken in the oven
at 190°C for two and a half hours.
8 Rest for ten minutes. Crack the clay and enjoy!
Beggar's
Chicken
recipe
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Unit
All about cooking
Vocabulary
Annie and her friends are playing an online cooking game. What are the characters doing?
pour
boil
spread
chop
beat
fry
bake
mix
Peel.
stir
sprinkle
Which word can we use
to replace the underlined
phrase in 'remove the
skin of the peach'?
Extra Word
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