Chicago Students Take Healthy Meal Recipe To National Competition
CHICAGO (CBS) -- No greasy pizza and tater tots there. High school students from the Southeast Side were in Washington, D.C., on Monday, are whipping up a healthy meal for a national culinary competition.
For the "Cooking Up Change" competition, Washington High School students came up with a menu of a Cajun chicken lettuce wrap with roasted corn relish.
Senior Marshawn Gibson was in charge of the dessert, deconstructed peach and yogurt pizza, not served in the traditional style.
"Instead of that, we kind of turned into a parfait cup, put the piece of crust inside the cup," he said.
Their teacher, Tai Sellers, said the kids not only are learning how to prepare healthy foods, but also about job prospects in the field.
"We're at the Department of Education, and there are whole sections of the department on foods alone. So yeah you can go to culinary school and learn about all of those techniques, and those skills, and nutrition, and come work for the president," she said.
You can try out their recipe for a Cajun chicken lettuce wrap here, and the roasted corn relish and peach and yogurt pizza here.