JAPANESE COOKING CLASS: BEGINNER AND MATCHA (INTENSIVE)

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Learn the fundamentals of healthy and easy Japanese cooking as well as gain knowledge and skills about Matcha - a special form of green tea, specially grown and prepared for deeper flavour in this intensive hands-on and fun workshop.

This workshop combines the Japanese Cooking Class (Beginner) and Matcha Lovers High Tea Cooking Class for a whole-day intensive workshop.

Follow detailed demonstrations by celebrated chef Yoshiko Takeuchi, who has had over twenty years experience and has frequented some of Sydney's top kitchens, authored two cook books and worked on shows like The Biggest Loser.

Did you know most Japanese restaurants use lots of MSG in their cooking? These restaurants also don’t use traditional ingredients meaning the food loses taste and nutrition! But don’t worry. This class is MSG-free and we will use only traditional, high-quality Japanese ingredients to make our food yummy and healthy.

You will follow traditional methods replicable at home, including essential Japanese seasonings, cooking techniques and a variety of yummy recipes.

Some examples include:

• An understanding of basic Japanese seasonings

• How to balance each meal

• How to cook authentic rice

• How to make vegetarian dashi stock

• Miso soup (using homemade dashi/powdered dashi)

• How to cook teriyaki

• Making goma ae ( Japanese style very traditional salad) in two ways

• Cooking perfect tempura served with dipping sauce

• Basic knife skills