My Reflection

For one of my breakfast appetizers, my group and I made 8 mini fruit smoothie bowls with homemade granola. We made the smoothie by blending blueberries, strawberries, bananas, and oranges. We made the homemade granola to add on top of our mini bowls. We made it by soaking the oats in maple syrup, brown sugar, cinnamon, fresh lemon juice, and melted butter. We roasted it in the oven for about an hour and rotated the pan, and mixing the oats around every 15 minutes. They were ready when the oats were caramelized and crunchy. For the other toppings, we added whole blueberries, sliced strawberries, and sliced bananas only on one half. on the other half was the granola and some chia seeds. The chia seeds went under the granola because the black colour wouldn’t look nice on the top with the bright colours. I loved this lab! I had never had or made a smoothie bowl before this and I enjoyed the process and plating of it all. It was a rustic plating but had to look like the others, which was cool. The granola turned out amazing and added some nice texture to the smoothie that was completely blended all the way through!