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Are you a vegan food lover looking to expand your culinary knowledge? You're in the right place. Vegan cooking classes are an excellent opportunity to learn new recipes and techniques to create delicious, plant-based dishes. In this blog, we'll take you on a journey through four popular cuisines that you can learn at vegan cooking classes. From Japanese and Korean dishes to Vietnamese and Indian-themed meals, our guide presents recipes that will expand your culinary horizons.
Japanese Cooking:
Japanese cuisine is full of exquisite dishes and a perfect solution for those looking for vegan options. With vegan Japanese cuisine developed around Buddhist temples, you can expect flavorful and satisfying dishes. At vegan Japanese cooking classes, you'll prepare dishes like chirashi sushi, colorful sushi rice topped with fresh veggies, and yaki ganmodoki, pan-fried tofu cakes. Other recipes include kenchin-jiru, a hearty root vegetable stew, horensou goma ae, spinach in sesame sauce, and tsukemono, seasonal Japanese pickles.
Korean Cooking:
Korean vegan cuisine is known for its spice, variety, and flavour. You'll learn to prepare dishes like yeonnik-bap, sticky rice wrapped in a lotus leaf, oi-baek-kimchi, white cucumber kimchi, tteokbokki, spicy rice cakes with seasonal vegetables, doboo jeon, fried tofu, and vegetable patties. Also, cho-gochjang, a sweet and spicy bean paste sauce, is sure to brighten up your meals. Korean cuisine is a great option for anyone looking for unique and flavorful vegan meals.
Vietnamese Cooking:
Vietnamese cuisine is renowned for its fresh and light flavours, perfect for health-conscious foodies. At Vietnamese vegan cooking classes, you'll learn to prepare nuoc cham, a sweet and sour dipping sauce, banh it tran, steamed rice and mung bean dumplings, goi cuon, rice paper rolls with seasonal vegetables, and dau phu xot ca chua, deep-fried tofu with herbs and tomatoes. Another popular recipe is bun bo hue chay, a lemongrass soup with tofu cakes.
Indian Cooking:
Indian vegan cuisine boasts a wealth of spices and flavours that make your taste buds tingle. At vegan Indian cooking classes, you will be guided through the preparation of classic dishes such as aloo bajji pakora, potato fritters, oralu chitranna, Kerala festival rice, malai kofta, cashew, and tomato curry with potato and tofu balls, kurma, mixed vegetables with grated coconut, and kara or palak chutney, tomato-tamarind, or spinach sauce.
In conclusion, vegan cooking classes offer an excellent means to explore new and exciting cuisines. With Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Indian dishes to choose from, you can take a culinary tour of Asia, right from the comfort of your kitchen. Whether you're a vegan foodie or looking to add vegan dishes to your cooking repertoire, the recipes we've introduced here will undoubtedly satisfy your cravings. Happy cooking!
Get ready to make your first pasta or pizza and don your apron at Italian cooking classes in Melbourne! Whether you’re a beginner or a more confident home cook in the kitchen, these three easy Italian recipes will help take your Italian food to the next level.
Otao kitchen's Italian cooking classes create a fun and casual environment for you to learn authentic Italian dishes from scratch. From homemade pizza to classic pasta making, these authentic dishes will make you feel like you’ve travelled to Italy.
Learning to cook is best when you’re with your favourite people! So, if you’re looking for exciting date night ideas, team building activities or birthday party ideas, gather your loved ones and learn how to create delicious meals together in the kitchen. In fact, these recipes are so simple and easy that you will want to recreate them at home!
Roll dough and make pasta
Have you always wanted to learn how to cook your own hand cut pasta? Guided by an expert chef, you will learn the art of rolling dough and using your hands to cut the pasta the ravioli. Once you’re finished, you can sit down and enjoy the delicious pasta you made, paired with our local Victorian wines!
Learn how to toss a pizza
With our Pizza making party, you can take home your handmade pizza dough, along with learning tips and tricks to make your own pizza at home! You will have the confidence to toss pizza dough in your kitchen and cook it up for your family and friends.
Immerse yourself in making Ragu Al Genovese pasta sauce
You and your loved ones will learn to make a classic Italian sauce for your pasta. Not only that but you also have an opportunity to watch a pasta making demonstration and make your own sauce but you also learn how to cook these simple recipes so you can recreate them again at home!
Create a Pork Cutlet with Rocket Salad
Under the guidance of experienced chefs, you will learn how to miranade your pork for its juicy main, crumb and cook these beautiful pork for your main meal.
You will love the chance to learn to make some favourite Italian dishes, including pasta from scratch. Immerse yourself in Italian culture through its food, and learn more than you would just eat these dishes at a restaurant. You will work with your partner or the chef and will sit down at the communal table to eat their delicious creations afterwards.
When the Covid19 pandemic closed hospitality, tourism and entertainment businesses in early 2020, our chefs, tour guides, hosts and others were stranded. Otao Kitchen’s cooking classes, demonstrations and food events were cancelled.
Otao Kitchen turned to social media, where Zoom, Instagram and Facebook Live took the place of kitchen demonstration bench in front of an audience. It was trial and error, as we learned which camera buttons to push, how to control the sound and new ways to present our menu. Almost two years now we are getting the hang of it, prompting Otao Kitchen special ways in cooking and teaching over the internet.
In the past 6 months, we found one trend that’s emerging is cooking along with a kit. We are selling boxes of ingredients that go along with the online recipe that’s being demonstrated on Zoom cook-along classes. We found that we can make up the revenue loss by in-person cooking classes, and offer something more than you can find on Facebook or YouTube.
Chef and owner Ha Nguyen says there are 3 types of classes. The first one is the old school approach, where the instructor simply show how the dish is made, and the video is posted online. This method is crowded as every media outlet.
The second option is live Zoom classes that require registration. These allow us to earn some money by charging a fee with a limit on the number of people on each Zoom call. These classes often allow attendees to ask questions as the cooking is going on, or to follow up once the dish is finished. We did well in this class over the pandemic.
The third option that is rapidly growing for us are classes where participants purchase a kit of ingredients and make the dish at the same time with the chef. This way guests can enjoy closer to real life experience without the need of going out! Otao Kitchen is making the kits from dumplings to ramen and more to come.
We also learn a new way to deal with online cooking classes’ challenges. At a cooking school, we have everything, but not all people have the right pieces of equipment. We have to deal with people cooking while their family is at home. People also want to cook while socialising. We worked to modify the recipe, so we can send the kit with flexible to make the dishes. Even our chefs learned how different these classes can be.
Additionally, chefs can’t cook as much as they might be in a live demonstration, because every step needs to be broken down for the camera. Everything is slower because it’s all online.
Our guests' expectations are rising, so we have to be better with the experience delivery. If someone is a chef, the guests expect their set to look like a proper kitchen studio. At the beginning of the pandemic, guests were more patient with clumsily produced content. Now our guests want to feel like they are getting their money’s worth, and we want to feel like we are giving them more value.
Safe to say, as a small business, your feedback has helped us improve dramatically. At last, we feel like we’re delivering customers’ expectations.
When I became a chef, the power and allure of the food market and grocery stores was so strong that my mum would need to visit them everyday. It was always a great thing that mum bought home - fruits and vegetables, sweet cake and candy and meat or fish.
In the vegan cooking class you would want to explore vibrant spices, create beautiful sauces, work with fresh vegetables, tofu and beans. Otao Kitchen is specialise in Asian cooking so you can inspire your kitchen with Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian dishes.
THE FOOD OF BALI INDONESIA
Balinese food celebrate Balinese people from the volcanic island of Bali using spices blending with the fresh vegetables, meat and seafood. Balinese food sometime refers to special regional Indonesian cuisine. It demonstrates indigenous traditions and other Indonesian regional cuisine, Chinese and Indian. Bali's culinary traditions are somewhat distinct with the rest of Indonesia. The people Bali celebrate their foods with festivals and celebrations.
INGREDIENTS
Spices such as Kaempferia galanga galangal, shallots, garlic, turmeric, ginger and Kaffir lime are used in Balinese foods. For example popular Balinese 8-spice is made with white and black pepper, coriander, cumin, clove, nutmeg, sesame seed, and candlenut. Other ingredients such as palm sugar, fish paste, and basa gede spice paste are used in everyday dishes.
Many tropical foods are rambutan, mangoes, mangosteen, bananas, jackfruit, rambutan, passion fruit, nangka, pineapple, salak snake fruit, duku, kelengkeng, wani white mango or Mangifera caesia, papaya, longan, melon, oranges, custard-apple, coconut and durian.
Steamed rice is commonly consumed in every meal everyday. Pork, chicken, seafood and vegetables are widely consumed. Because many Balinese follow Hindu tradition so they never or rarely consume beef.