Chef Skills Weekend

Two-day cookery course

Our popular Chef Skills course focuses on the essential skills that professional chefs employ in a working kitchen.

Experienced amateur cooks or catering professionals will benefit from this course, learning some of the advanced techniques you would find in our top Devon restaurants.

Working with the freshest ingredients, such as hand-dived scallops, line caught mackerel and sea bass, Dartmoor lamb, organic herbs and vegetables.

Skills you will learn:

• Stocks
• Restaurant style reduced and emulsion sauces
• Pastry
• Desserts including ice creams
• Fish preparation including filleting, pin-boning and skinning;
• Basic butchery

Typical recipes:

• Pan Fried Baby Squid with Chorizo and Dressed Leaves
• Poached Fillet of Organic Trout with Cucumber, Clams and Basil Hollandaise
• Lemon Grass and Lime Leaf Panna Cotta with Raspberries and Fruit Coulis
• Dark Chocolate and Hazelnut Tart, Orange Segments and Cinnamon Ice Cream

£289

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Course times: 9.30am to 6pm on Saturday with a light lunch;
9.30am to 40pm on Sunday with a lunch tasting menu.
Participants must be 18 or over.

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