I love a good aioli sauce especially in a wrap or on a burger!  Because of this, I was inspired to do a Create Your Own Aioli & Wrap mini-lesson and lab. Before students enter the lab to create their own sauce and wrap, they must learn more about aioli. Continue reading to see how this is done!

Set

• Write the word AIOLI on the board. Ask students to raise their hands if they know what it is. Then ask them to raise their hands if they’ve actually tried it.
• Proceed to explain that this will be the topic of study and future lab!

Materials

• iPads or Laptops
• Colored Pencils or Markers
• Immersion Blenders (affiliate link)

Activities

• Students will need a ONE PAGER Template or blank white paper and colored pencils or markers to work with. Here’s a link to some free One Pager Templates from TPT that students can choose from. If there are too many options, you can select a few to print out and make available to students.
• Using reliable web-based resources, students will include the following information in a creative way on their One Pager:
  • Title
  • Define aioli (in your own words)
  • Ingredients that make up aioli
  • Steps to make a aioli with key terms
  • 3 Variations of aioli: Name (colors) with Description
  • Uses for aioli
  • Color and a minimum of 5 images corresponding to information
• After students understand the basic concept of aioli, it’s time for them to start planning their recipe. In their cooking groups, they will plan and design a new wrap that features their own aioli sauce using the planning guide. It’s up to you if you want students to have free choice on the flavors of their aioli sauce of if you want to give them a category such as herb flavored, spicy flavored or citrus flavored.
• Once students have some ideas for their sauce and wrap, it’s time to conference with them to be sure that what they have in mind is doable in the class time frame and that the ingredients needed are available and budget friendly in your area.
• Once you’ve given students the “thumbs up” for their ideas, they write their recipe out with directions, assign jobs for each lab member and write up a grocery list for you on needed ingredients.
• If this is the first time students will be using immersion blenders, take a few minutes to explain and demonstrate how they work and what NOT to do with them. Here’s a YouTube video on How to Use an Immersion Blender: Additional Tips, Tricks.
• NOTE:  If you don’t have immersion blenders and/or need a quick way to make aioli sauce, you can have students add their flavors to regular mayonnaise instead of making it from scratch.
• On the day of the lab, students will prepare their sauce and wraps. Each kitchen will cut their wraps into bite size pieces so all members of the class can taste test a sample wrap with the designed aioli sauce. They will also prepare a name card for their aioli and wrap design to sit beside their creation.
• Following the taste test, students will fill out an exit slip on the results of their creations and preferences.
• Discuss the results as a class and conduct a survey on which aioli sauce and wrap was most preferred and why.

Attachments

• One Pager Aioli Guide Sheet (PDF)
• Design Your Own Aioli & Wrap (PDF)
• Lab Reflection Prompts (PDF)