10/16/2026
🍅 Recipe Review: Nourishing Cauliflower Nuggets! 🍅
This week, kids in Sticky Fingers Cooking classes coast to coast created a tasty variation of an Eggplant Parmesan recipe: Shook-Up Cauliflower Parmesan Nuggets! Our version is a simplified and dunkable version that reimagines the classic as a fun snack!
First, our kid chefs chopped up a head of cauliflower into large chunks, making all the pieces about the same size. Then kids placed the cauliflower into a large sealable container and measured and added in flour, breadcrumbs, Parmesan cheese, salt, black pepper, and cracked in an egg. Our chefs then sealed the container and shook it until all the cauliflower was coated. Kids practiced their Italian counting while shaking: 1 uno (OO-noh), 2 due (DOO-eh), 3 tre (treh), 4 quattro (KWAHT-troh), 5 cinque (CHEEN-kweh). With Chef Instructor help, our kids heated up vegetable oil on a large skillet and placed the cauliflower chunks into the oil gently. After sautéing for 5 minutes, kids flipped the cauliflower and cooked for another 3 minutes. Then kids placed the cauliflower on a paper-towel-lined cutting board or plate to cool.
A few fun quotes from this week:
💬 "When I get home, I'm going to tell my dad we need to make this right away, because it's yummy, and he's always saying we should eat more veggies!"
💬 "We keep making recipes with ingredients I don't think I like, in recipes I think don't sound good, and then we make it, and I keep loving it!"
💬 “These are better than chicken nuggets, and the tomato sauce tastes better than ketchup!”.
💬 “Are there any more?”
For dunking, our kid chefs whipped up Terrific Five-Ingredient Tomato Sauce! First, our kid chefs measured and added tomato sauce, butter, onion powder, salt, and sugar to a small saucepan. With Chef Instructor help, our kids brought the sauce to a simmer and cooked it until the butter melted, at least 5 minutes. Then kids served the sauce with the nuggets, dunking and devouring! "È squisito" (EH skwee-ZEE-toh) or "It's delicious" in Italian!
✨ Hands-on, nutritious, and full of flavor—this week’s recipe showed us how fun it is to explore world cuisines, one bite at a time!
👉 For the recipe link:
https://stickyfingerscooking.com/lesson_plans/shook-up-cauliflower-parmesan-terrific-tomato-sauce-e98d406f-954f-4c35-9857-41e711436765