Overview
‘Complete Cook’ is a three-part cooking course series that takes place one day a week for 5 weeks, providing you with all the tools you need to become a skilled and complete home-cook. Every week, you’ll focus on developing a new key cooking skill whilst exploring a range of exciting recipes. You’ll learn good kitchen management, knife skills, and how to prepare, cook and present fresh produce to enhance flavour.
Each part of the series may be taken in succession to obtain a complete kitchen skillset or take courses individually in any order. Part 1 covers kitchen fundamentals, knife skills, kitchen organisation and some delicious recipes to give you the foundations of a comprehensive kitchen skillset.
Structure:
Week 1: The Building Blocks
Week 2: Meat and sauces
Week 3: Fish and shellfish
Week 4: Baking
Week 5: Desserts
Typical skills covered:
- Knife skills and presentation
- Preparation of meat (i.e. jointing)
- Browning meat
- Preparation of shellfish and filleting of fish
- Bread
- Creamed cakes
- Shortcrust pastry
- Use of gelatine
Example recipes:
- Butternut squash, coconut & lemongrass soup
- Moroccan lamb tagine
- Sumac chicken with fattoush salad
- Pan fried squid with chickpea salad
- Enriched white bread
- Victoria sandwich
- Glazed berry tartlets
- Vanilla panna cotta
Sample recipes may be subject to change
