Italian Cookery - High Pavement Learning Centre - Adult Learning

This course is a beginners guide to learn about Italian dishes made with fresh ingredients. You will learn skills and techniques to cook from scratch, including how to make fresh pasta, and your own pizza dough with delicious toppings.

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, baking, boiling. Diverse methods in food preparation, cooking methods, knife skills and flavor combinations.

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 for future cookery work.

What you will need to bring to the course:

Ingredients and equipment needed each week will be communicated by the tutor.

• Week 1- Flour, eggs, and salt.

• Knife

• Rolling pin

• Fluted pasta wheel

• Paintbrush

• Flavors of personal choice for pasta- Black pepper, Tomato puree, Chili, Herbs, Saffron or select your own.

• Spinach, parmesan, ricotta and nutmeg.