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Year 9

Making sweet potato katsu curry

I can use food skills to make a sweet potato katsu curry.

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Year 9

Making sweet potato katsu curry

I can use food skills to make a sweet potato katsu curry.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Katsu curry is a traditional Japanese dish of a pork cutlet (tonkatsu), served with rice and curry sauce.
  2. In line with the Eatwell Guide, we should have a plant-rich, diverse and balanced diet.
  3. Food skills used to make katsu curry include measuring, mixing, peeling, slicing, coating, and using the hob and oven.
  4. High standards of personal hygiene and safe food handling must be demonstrated at all times.
  5. Recipes and cooking methods can be modified to help meet current healthy eating messages and different budgets.

Keywords

  • Katsu - an abbreviation for the word of a pork ‘cutlet’ in Japanese (katsuretsu, カツレツ)

  • Plant rich - a diet that comprises lots of fruit, vegetables, cereals, beans, legumes, seeds and nuts

  • Personal hygiene - steps taken to prevent cross-contamination and reduce the risk of food poisoning

  • Budget - income and expenditure over a period of time

Common misconception

Recipes cannot be modified for different budgets, as the stated ingredients must always be used.

Recipes can be modified for different budgets, using a number of strategies, such as comparing costs, buying own-brand items, and using seasonal fruit and vegetables.


To help you plan your year 9 cooking and nutrition lesson on: Making sweet potato katsu curry, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...

As this lesson also looks at recipe modification, for health and different budgets, challenge pupils to modify the recipe for different health criteria and/or budgets. Pupils could also conduct nutritional analysis on their dishes, as well as calculate costs.
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

Prior knowledge starter quiz

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6 Questions

Q1.
What should you wear for good personal hygiene when cooking?
blazer or coat
gloves
watch
Correct answer: apron
Q2.
What safe cutting technique is being shown?
An image in a quiz
claw bridge
bridge grip
Correct answer: claw grip
bridge hold
Q3.
Which food group should we have with each meal, as recommended by 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
Oil and spreads
Q4.
Match the food skill to the dish:
Correct Answer:blending,making a smooth soup

making a smooth soup

Correct Answer:whisking,making a meringue

making a meringue

Correct Answer:rubbing-in,making pastry

making pastry

Correct Answer:kneading,making bread

making bread

Correct Answer:stir-frying,cooking noodles and vegetables

cooking noodles and vegetables

Q5.
Food leftovers can be used in other recipes, helping to reduce .
Correct Answer: food waste, foodwaste, wasting food
Q6.
Your hands, hair, face, skin, clothing and jewellery can all be a source of bacteria which can be transferred onto food. This is known as ...
cross-safety
contamination
Correct answer: cross-contamination
food safety
Q3 © Crown copyright 2016, Public Health England in association with the Welsh Government, Food Standards Scotland and the Food Standards Agency in Northern Ireland

Assessment exit quiz

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6 Questions

Q1.
True or fasle? Recipes cannot be modified for different budgets, as the stated ingredients must always be used.
True
Correct answer: False
Q2.
Match the following:
Correct Answer:Meat, fish or vegetables are coated in,panko breadcrumbs and fried.

panko breadcrumbs and fried.

Correct Answer:Japanese rice is traditionally used,,but long grain, jasmine, and wild rice can used.

but long grain, jasmine, and wild rice can used.

Correct Answer:The sauce uses curry powder,,onions, carrots, garlic, ginger, soy sauce and honey.

onions, carrots, garlic, ginger, soy sauce and honey.

Q3.
What food skill is being demonstrated here?
An image in a quiz
bagging
mixing
Correct answer: coating
rubbing-in
zesting
Q4.
Recipes and cooking methods can be modified to help meet current messages.
Correct Answer: healthy eating, healthyeating
Q5.
Strategies to modify recipes for different budgets include:
using fruit and vegetables out of season
Correct answer: buying supermarket ‘own-brand’ foods
Correct answer: diversifying protein sources, e.g. more beans and pulses
Correct answer: looking at ways to reduce food waste
throwing away leftovers
Q6.
Put the following katsu curry recipe into the correct order.
1 - Preheat the oven to 200°C or gas mark 6.
2 - Cook the rice.
3 - Slice the sweet potato, coat in breadcrumbs, and bake.
4 - Prepare the vegetables.
5 - Cook the vegetables, add stock and curry powder.
6 - Blend the curry sauce.
7 - Serve.

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