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Baked savoury rice

I can use food skills to make baked savoury rice for my school community.

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Year 6

Baked savoury rice

I can use food skills to make baked savoury rice for my school community.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Rice dates back thousands of years to China. There are many types of rice used in different international dishes.
  2. Rather than using the hob, the dish is cooked covered in the oven. This keeps the heat and liquid in, cooking the dish.
  3. The food skills used to make baked savoury rice are measuring, peeling, chopping, mixing and using the oven (baking).
  4. Formal and informal feedback can help improve work in the future.

Keywords

  • Rice - the grains of a grass-like plant which is grown for food

  • Absorb - to ‘soak-up’ or ‘take-in’ liquid (like a sponge)

  • Feedback - in this context, information about how someone works or reactions to a food dish

Common misconception

Rice can only be cooked in a saucepan on the hob.

Rice can be cooked in different ways, such as on the hob, in a rice cooker, in the oven, and in a microwave. The hot water and steam help to ‘cook’ the rice.


To help you plan your year 6 cooking and nutrition lesson on: Baked savoury rice, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...

Allow pupils to be creative, choosing (from a given selection) a range of different vegetables, 'protein' foods, stock cubes (reduced salt) and spices. This approach encourages creativity, but is also manageable in the classroom environment.
Teacher tip

Equipment

For ingredients and equipment see the recipe in additional materials.

Content guidance

  • Risk assessment required - may contain allergens
  • Risk assessment required - equipment

Supervision

Adult supervision required

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2025), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Lesson video

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Prior knowledge starter quiz

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6 Questions

Q1.
When placing food into, or taking food out of, the oven, what equipment should be used?

dish cloth
tongs
tea towel
Correct answer: oven gloves

Q2.
Which food group can rice be found on the Eatwell Guide?

An image in a quiz
fruit and vegetables
Correct answer: potatoes, bread, rice, pasta and other starchy carbohydrates
beans, pulses, fish, eggs, meat and other proteins
dairy and alternatives
oils and spreads

Q3.
If the oven is needed for a recipe, it should usually be preheated.

Correct answer: True
False

Q4.
Which ingredients are measured using this piece of equipment?

An image in a quiz
cinnamon
Correct answer: milk
eggs
flour
Correct answer: water

Q5.
Match the following food hygiene tips.

Correct Answer:Wash your,hands.

hands.

Correct Answer:Tie up,long hair.

long hair.

Correct Answer:Wear an,apron.

apron.

Correct Answer:Roll-up,long sleeves.

long sleeves.

Correct Answer:Remove,watches and jewellery.

watches and jewellery.

Q6.
When draining food, we use a over the sink.

Correct Answer: colander, sieve
Q2 © Crown copyright 2016, Public Health England in association with the Welsh Government, Food Standards Scotland and the Food Standards Agency in Northern Ireland Q4 Measuring cup, by Dpbsmith, 2006, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Assessment exit quiz

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6 Questions

Q1.
Rice needs lots of and __________ temperatures to grow.

dry
Correct answer: wet
Correct answer: warm
windy
hot

Q2.
Rice is a food for more than half the people in the world (around 3.5 billion people).

Correct Answer: staple

Q3.
Match the rice dishes to the country of origin.

Correct Answer:congee,China

China

Correct Answer:risotto,Italy

Italy

Correct Answer:sushi,Japan

Japan

Correct Answer:biryani,India

India

Correct Answer:Jollof rice,Nigeria

Nigeria

Correct Answer:paella,Spain

Spain

Q4.
What food skill is being demonstrated here?

An image in a quiz
pulling
Correct answer: deseeding
dicing
stripping
crushing

Q5.
Rice can only be cooked in a saucepan on the hob.

True
Correct answer: False

Q6.
Place this baked savoury rice recipe into the correct order.

1 - Preheat the oven.
2 - Peel and dice the vegetables, and slice the cooked chicken.
3 - Place the vegetables, chicken, and rice into the foil tray.
4 - Add the stock, water and spices.
5 - Mix everything together.
6 - Bake for 40 minutes.

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