Hi, I'm Anabel Carmel and I'm here at the Saint-Jérôme Hotel in Mauritius and I'm here
with Sebastian Erot who's the executive chef at the hotel and I've come from London to
help Sebastian develop some children's menus.
So my job here is to make tasty food that's healthy as well.
It's not spicy.
It's good though.
Yeah, it smells good.
Oh, it's nice.
You can really add any type of vegetable, you could have baby sweet corn, carrots.
Now we've got the chicken which we marinated the chicken, we cooked it with some shallots.
It's quite quick and easy to cook.
Yeah, very quick.
Very tasty.
I believe it's really important to train children to have good healthy eating habits when they're young
because that's what they're going to continue as they get older.
So it's important not just to give them junk food hamburgers and chicken nuggets and pizzas
but introduce them to other foods like we're doing pad thais and fruity curries
and we're doing yakitori chicken to widen the sort of foods that children will enjoy eating.
So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to put all these vegetables, that's one, two, three, four, five vegetables
into our bolognese here at the Saint-Gérard.
So the children get a bolognese which they love and the parents know they're getting all sorts of vegetables.
Now why do we use an apple?
Because it adds a little bit of sweetness, local leek.
I like red peppers because they're much sweeter, some grated apple to that.
So now we've cooked our vegetables, I'm going to pop them into our blender in here
because we're going to disguise them.
The thing is if they can't see them they can't pick them out, that's the point.
There we go.
And there you have the most delicious hidden vegetable bolognese sauce.
What we're trying to do here in Mauritius is to teach children about food in many different ways.
Plus for parents who have little babies they can choose fresh baby curries to make with fresh fruits and vegetables
which is very nice and the chef will make their baby their own particular baby puree
out of maybe butternut squash and chicken and local produce which is very nice.
And then there's the kitchen garden where the children can go and see different things growing.
We have pineapples growing here and we have all sorts of herbs growing and radishes
and all sorts of things which are very interesting.
Then the kids club is amazing because there's a lot of cooking going on in the kids club.
So they learn to make pizzas, they learn to make smoothies,
they have very good education about teaching children how to cook.
Working with Annabel was fantastic.
It's something new for me, something change, different new vision
and I definitely look forward to see you soon at Mauritius at 1 and only in Saint-Germain.
