Cooking with Your Kids: Mini Tostadas

April 6, 2007
Posted by pamela |
kitchen utensilsCooking with your children is a great way to spend quality family time, and, above all, it's fun! Here's a fun and simple recipe to help you get started cooking with your children, courtesy of Michelle Stern, owner of What's Cooking. What's Cooking is a Marin-based business that offers exciting, fun, and educational cooking workshops in home or school for kids aged 2 1/2 through 19. They will soon roll out What’s Cooking Weekly, a subscription service that offers, tips, recipes, grocery lists, and nutrition information for 5 healthy family meals a week. Find out more at www.whatscooking.info. The following recipe is from What’s Cooking Weekly. (For a printable version of the recipe, click on the title link above.)

Mini Tostadas
Created by Michelle Stern and daughter, Amelia

24 small round wonton wrappers
Canola oil spray
Sour cream, lowfat
Refried Beans
Guacamole (already prepared, or you can make your own)*
Cheddar Cheese
Olives
Corn
Tomatoes or Salsa
Lettuce or Spinach leaves
  1. Preheat oven to 350º.
  2. Press each wonton wrapper into the cups of a nonstick Mini-Muffin Pan using a tart shaper or your fingers.
  3. Spray each wrapper lightly with oil.
  4. Bake 6-7 minutes until the edges are golden brown.  Remove wonton shells from pan.
  5. Open the cans of refried beans and olives.
  6. Grate Cheese with a rotary cheese grater.
  7. Slice lettuce or spinach leaves into strips.
  8. Slice olives with an egg slicer.
  9. Layer fillings of your choice into the wonton shells and garnish the top with a slice of olive.
CALL THE KIDS:
  1. Kids can scoop the refried beans out of the can.
  2. Ask your children to pour the can of olives into a colander in your sink to drain them.
  3. If you have a rotary cheese grater, your child can turn the handle.  If you have a traditional cheese grater, your child can help, but keep an eye on them so they don’t scrape their skin.
  4. Children can tear the lettuce or spinach leaves.
  5. If you have an egg slicer, use it with your child to slice olives.  If not, use a table knife.
  6. Place all of the toppings in bowls and let your child fill her own tostada as she likes.
Cooks’ tips: 
  • Wonton wrappers can be found in the produce section of most grocery stores.  The round ones work best, since there are no sharp corners to poke the roof of your mouth!
  • Unfilled wontons can be made up to a week ahead and stored in an airtight container at room temperature.
  • Be creative with the filling you use. Let your children help you come up with ideas to try!
To make your own guacamole, simply peel and seed an avocado.  Smash the fruit (yes, it is a fruit!) with a fork, add a pinch of salt and the juice from _ a lemon.  Add a spoonful of salsa, if desired.
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