Avo Tacos with Chunky Salsa - Disney Cookabout recipe

Disney Cookabout Season 3 Avo Tacos with Chunky Salsa recipe

Disney Cookabout Season 3 is in full swing on Disney Channel 303. There is nothing we love more than watching cooking shows. For me the focus is on the "watching", but luckily I have a husband and hopefully a daughter who likes cooking a bit more. When I cook, I want it to be easy and fresh. We had the opportunity to prepare a Biltong and Avo Tacos with Chunky Salsa recipe at the recent launch of Disney Cookabout. Because I am a vegetarian, I did not include the biltong in my version.

This recipe is from the Disney Cookabout launch, but I am allowed to share. It is so tasty and so easy to make. The most preparation is in the cutting and measurement of ingredients.

Disney Cookabout Season 3 - perfect to get us all out of the winter slump

Hosts Kirsten Mohamed and Mthunzi Ntoyi

Disney Cookabout Season 3 is launching with premiere episodes on Saturday from 27 July 10:15 am on Disney Channel 303. 

We attended the launch at The Good Food Studio yesterday. 

We now have a budding wannabe Cookabout contestant within our midst, because Miss Fine got a chance to display her culinary skills. She thinks she can take part in the next Season of Cookabout, as well! (Please notify us when you see the call for auditions? *big smile*)

In this cookery game show, set in South Africa, teams of two young chefs head out each week to explore where the food on our tables come from and then head back to the amazing kitchen to rustle up some tasty dishes. The hosts are Kirsten Mohamed and Mthunzi Ntoyi.

Tell the kids!

A Quick Corn Bread recipe in the spirit of Disney Cookabout Season 2

Quick Corn Bread with Amasi
(Disney Cookabout Season 2)

Season 2 of Disney Cookabout started on Saturday Disney Channel (DStv Channel 303) on Saturday 14 October.

It’s time! Disney Cookabout 2 starts on Disney Channel, DStv channel 303 Saturday, 14 October 9.25 am#DisneyCookabout #DisneyAfrica pic.twitter.com/2qNxAv6RYl

— Karen du Toit (@karentoittoit) October 14, 2017

In sharing the excitement, Disney Africa send us a basket with all the ingredients (except the egg) to make a Quick Corn Bread. In true African spirit, the ingredients included Amasi (Very popular in South Africa: A fermented milk that tastes like cottage cheese or plain yogurt).
I am not familiar with baking with it, but came up with three uses over the past weekend. It works very well with vegetarian dishes!

Fun facts about Disney Cookabout starting tomorrow on SABC 2

Disney Cookabout on SABC 2

We are really looking forward to this! The whole family enjoys watching cooking shows, although we have only one GREAT CHEF (according to Little Miss/She is dead right! I am talking about her Dad, of course!) who cooks in our house!

Disney Cookabout  premieres tomorrow on SABC 2, and will be on every Friday at 15:30 from 5 August.
Disney Cookabout promises to be a comedic adventure game-show that uses food preparation, cooking and outdoor exploration to showcase South African ingredients and a fun-filled approach to healthy eating.

Behind-the-scenes at Disney Cookabout

The presenters are Mthunzi Nyoti (Self) and Kirsten Mohammed (Chef Kirsten).

Disney Cookabout presenters

Here are some Disney Cookabout Fun Facts:

Yum Yum!
- 31 tried and tested recipes were used while filming Disney Cookabout

All over the Western Cape!
- 21 locations were visited by the production, including organic farms, spice shops, food markets and more all across the Western Cape

Smile for the Camera!
- 6 camera were used during the shoot

Action!
- Disney Cookabout had 3 directors!

Pick me!
- Nearly 200 kids auditioned to be a cooktestant

Tuck in!
- 78 meals were cooked over the duration of the show

A month of fun!
- The entire production was shot over 32 days

All in this together!
- There were 68 crew members, 10 cooktestants and 2 presenters who brought Disney Cookabout to life

Reel hard work!
- All in all, over 500 hours of footage was shot during the production!


There are two groups of cooktestants! (love the word!)

Episodes 1-13 Disney Cookabout cooktestants

Episodes 14-26 Disney Cookabout cooktestants

Episode 1
The door in the magical kitchen takes Tshego and Lebo to Farmer Angus’s free range chicken farm in the Stellenbosch Winelands for their first adventure of the season. In this episode they will have to collect their own eggs for their recipes. While exploring the farm, they find chickens that roam free and live in egg mobiles and are treated like pets by farmer Angus. Will the cooktestants be able to collect enough eggs to complete this challenge and walk away with the golden spoon, or are there no eggs to be found?
Episode Ingredient: Eggs
Cooktestants: Tshegofatso Molopisane & Ana Adriaanse
Location: Farmer Angus Farm in Stellenbosch
Episode Activity: Experience the farming of free range eggs laid by free range chickens. These chickens live in eggmobiles and are like pets.

Disney Cookabout is produced by Penguin Films for Walt Disney Television.

The Blog drop - a decorative spoon? ;-)