SHOPPING LIST: Cooking Skills: Knife Skills 1, Chapter 9 (Putting It Together)

One shopping list for all three dishes. Buy a little extra of the common vegetables (onion, carrots, red pepper) so you can run the timed prep twice.

Minestrone (4 portions)
[ ] 1 onion
[ ] 2 carrots
[ ] 2 celery sticks
[ ] 1 courgette
[ ] 1 potato (about 150 g)
[ ] 2 garlic cloves
[ ] 1 tbsp olive oil
[ ] 1 tin chopped tomatoes (400 g)
[ ] 750 ml hot vegetable stock
[ ] 1 tin cannellini beans (400 g), drained
[ ] 50 g small pasta shapes
[ ] 2 tbsp chopped parsley or basil
[ ] 1 pinch salt and pepper

Chopped salad (3 to 4 portions)
[ ] 1 cucumber
[ ] 4 tomatoes
[ ] 1 red pepper
[ ] 1 small red onion
[ ] 1 tin chickpeas (400 g), drained
[ ] 1 tbsp chopped parsley or mint
[ ] 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
[ ] 1 lemon, juice
[ ] 1 pinch salt and pepper

Vegetable noodle stir-fry (2 to 3 portions)
[ ] 200 g egg noodles or rice noodles
[ ] 1 carrot, peeled
[ ] 1 red pepper
[ ] 100 g mangetout or sugar snap peas
[ ] 4 spring onions
[ ] 1 garlic clove
[ ] 1 tsp fresh ginger
[ ] 1 tbsp sunflower oil
[ ] 2 tbsp soy sauce
[ ] 1 tsp sesame oil

For the experiments
[ ] An extra onion
[ ] A kitchen timer