Chinese Cookery - High Pavement Learning Centre, Sutton-in-Ashfield - Adult Learning

This course is a beginner's guide to Chinese dishes made with fresh ingredients. You will learn skills and techniques to cook from scratch including how to make sweet and sour chicken, stir fried beef with ginger, duck in plum sauce, black bean sauce, 5 spice powder, chicken chow mein.

During the course we will be focusing on using a range of culinary techniques and skills to enjoy with friends and family including some of the following, diverse methods in food preparation, cooking methods, knife skills and flavor combinations to produce a variety of dishes. You will then select some of these techniques to develop your own skills and knowledge.

No experience of cooking is required. You will learn about how you can use these techniques creatively through looking at and discussing cooks and chefs who influence and motivate. By the end of the course everyone will have explored and gained confidence in a range of creative techniques, produce some edible dishes and gain skills and knowledge to progress onto further learning through progression courses or consider career opportunities, for future cookery work.

Please bring to the course with you:-

• A drink, notepad and pen

• Ingredients and equipment required will be communicated in advance by the tutor. For week 1 you will need:

• Sunflower or vegetable oil for frying

• 100ml soda water chilled

• 140g self- rising flour

• 25g corn flour

• 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts cut into chunks

• Small bunch of Spring onions finely shredded

• For the sauce:

• 1 red pepper

• 3 red chilies

• 425g can pineapple

• 4 star anise

• 50g tamarind paste

• 100g caster sugar

• 100ml rice wine vinegar

• Apron and suitable container to carry food home in.