A delicious Rainbow Plate

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Final workshop day Lettuce Wraps recipe

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Yummy Lettuce Wraps

Serves 4  Take a break from meat and serve these easy wraps at your next get-together. They're full of protein and flavor and low in fat.

Ingredients: 

• 1 tablespoon expeller-pressed canola oil
• 1/2 cup finely chopped yellow onion
• 1/2 cup finely chopped zucchini
• 1/2 cup chopped carrot
• 1 (8-ounce) package baked tofu, oriental or teriyaki style, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped mint
• 1/2 cup chopped green onions
• 1 (8-ounce) can sliced water chestnuts, drained
• 1/4 cup hoisin sauce, plus more for dipping
• 1 head butter lettuce
• Lime wedges

Top of Form

Bottom of Form

Method: 

Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add onions, zucchini and carrots and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in tofu, mint, green onions and water chestnuts. Add 1/4 cup of the hoisin sauce and let simmer 5 to 7 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat and serve tofu mixture with lettuce leaves for wrapping, lime wedges for squeezing and additional sauce for dipping, if you like.

Nutritional Info: 

Per Serving: 250 calories (100 from fat), 12g total fat, 1.5g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol, 700mg sodium, 21g carbohydrate (5g dietary fiber, 7g sugar), 15g protein 

Moving Forward Rainbow Plate

So, the young people moved forward
toward the goal of creating a Rainbow Soup!

We also worked together to recreate the Rainbow Plate collective sculpture.

When I returned to the center we found this

Day 3 Rainbow Plate at Good Luck Community Center continued...

Day 3 also gave the students opportunity to create a healthy soup from our Rainbow veggies!

Day 3 Rainbow Plate at Good Luck Community Center

Today students worked with Model Magic to make a collective sculpture out of our favorite Rainbow Plate fruits. 

 

 

Day 2 at Good Luck!

Day 2 at Good Luck CC's Rainbow Plate project combined art making and juicing! We took the opportunity to identify our favorite fruits and veggies. And began to create small playdough representations of them for a rainbow plate collaborative sculpture.
Everyone enjoyed the freshly made juice, made with orange, grapefruit, banana, strawberries, grapes and apple.

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