The Cooking Academy

Authentic Indian cookery classes

 If you want to learn to cook Authentic Indian food then this is it!  Its a hands on cookery class for people who love to cook real Indian food.  The class provides a comprehensive spice trail – teaching you all about the spices used in Asian food not just Indian.   Then you learn to make spice blends.  It’s an experience in which all your senses are awaken, and all your taste buds are used to identify flavours.  The class will demistify the myth that Asian cookery is complicated or time consuming. 

If you want to learn to cook Indian food book now on 0845 068 58 48 or email cara@thecookingacademy.co.uk.

If you would like to learn to cook curries our 1 day Curry cookery class will be a real baptism of fire, The day is jam packed from cooking from the off.

Today we’re running a private sushi class for a family group – brothers and sisters and their spouses who are all avid sushi lovers who want to learn the art of making sushi.  As you know sushi is essentially Japanese street food , a means of incorporating all the ingredients of a typical Japanese meal but on the go.  Sushi is really healthy especially when the rice is cooked properly, that ‘s to say you follow the correct procedure for washing rice. 

To find out more information about our cookery classes or private cookery classes for friends and family please contact Kumud Gandhi at The Cooking Academy on www.thecookingacademy.co.uk or telephone us on 01923 720 697.

This ever increasing popular cusine is brought to you by The cooking Academy. Learn to make great Thai food and learn all about the Herbs and spices in Thai cuisine. In this class you will make the Original Thai Red curry paste – as made in Thailand in its most authentic recipe. Having mastered the paste you will go on to making Thai fish cakes, the original Thai Chicken curry and jasmin rice.
The recipes created in this class are authentic Thai food as eaten by Thai people and learning to cook Thai food couldn’t be easier.
For more information or for booking advice please call us on 0845 567 00 22 Or visit our web site http://www.thecookingacademy.co.uk

Today we’re running the Sushi experience, a master class to teach you everything you need to know to make perfect sushi. Whether its to enjoy for yourself or for entertaining friends in this class we teach you the techniques for rolling a variety of sushi, how to cook sushi rice and prepare the ingredients. It’s all about technique and our Sushi Chef will work with each individual to ensure that they have mastered the technique to perfect sushi. To Learn to make sushi or attend a Sushi Master class contact www.thecookingacademy.co.uk

For more information or for booking advice please call us on 0845 567 00 22 Or email us at: info@thecookingacademy.co.uk

This ever increasing popular cusine is brought to you by The cooking Academy. Learn to make great thai food and learn all about the Herbs and spices in Thai cuisine. For more information or for booking advice please call us on 0845 567 00 22 Or email us at: info@thecookingacademy.co.uk

For more information on how to attend one of our Indian cookery clases or for booking advice please call us on 0845 567 00 22 Or email us at: cara@thecookingacademy.co.uk

Our Indian cookery classes are designed for people who want to learn how to make everyday Indian food in a quick and easy way. Our recipes are simple but authentic and reflect the Indian food eaten by Indian families. A typical will cover a comprehensive spice trail, make a number of spice blends and cook a fish dish, a chicken dish and paneer followed by a number of vegetables dishes and starters such as pakoras and somosas. The class is action packed and entirely hands on with you doing all the cooking. Class sizes are small with only 5 people per class.
For more information on how to attend one of our Indian cookery clases or for booking advice please call us on 0845 567 00 22 Or email us at: cara@thecookingacademy.co.uk or find us at www.the cookingacademy.co.uk

Our Indian cookery classes are designed for people who want to learn how to make everyday Indian food in a quick and easy way. Our recipes are simple but authentic and reflect the Indian food eaten by Indian families. A typical will cover a comprehensive spice trail, make a number of spice blends and cook a fish dish, a chicken dish and paneer followed by a number of vegetables dishes and starters such as pakoras and somosas. The class is action packed and entirely hands on with you doing all the cooking. Class sizes are small with only 5 people per class.
For more information on how to attend one of our Indian cookery clases or for booking advice please call us on 0845 567 00 22 Or email us at: cara@thecookingacademy.co.uk or find us at www.the cookingacademy.co.uk

I’ve just finished the last session of classes for teenagers before the Universities start back and the summer has been a long one!  Long but enormously FUN!  We’ve had some amazing student, from the hopeless disinterested “can’t cook won’t cook” to the “really wanna do this” and just very enthusiatic. 

I enjoy teaching teenagers to cook for a number of reasons – fundamentally the primary reason is probably very selfish – it makes me feel good to think that I am influencing a key change in someone’s life!  THERE!  it cant get anymore egotistical than that.     But however it makes me feel – the key thing is that the student go home having mastered some staple homecooked dishes that are easy, relatively cheap but mostly nourishing and will give them nutritional sustainence and stability to study or at least survive.    More than that though, they learn a basic life skill and some confidence in the kitchen to just have a go.   It sounds really basic but some student haven’t boiled a potato, haven’t sliced an onion and don’t know how to make stock – not even from a stock cube!  

If your fortunate enough to have grown up in a house where people actually cook then you’ve probably pick some things up subliminally, and would be OK just ‘having a go’  – but if you havent then thats a real tough one because the chances are you’re really quite unlikely to  just knock something up, let alone know what to buy and how  much etc… 

One of the other reasons i enjoy this group is the light bulb syndrome!  the light bulbs just go off and they surprise themselves that something they’ve cooked could taste so good.  How lovely! the expression on their faces and the fun in making it….  Young people have some really interesting interpretations of things…  their sense of practicality is really different to ours (and trust me I’m not old!) – buts it is  JUST DIFFERENT! that’s all.  Their logic is different and they all get to the sames place but in very different ways and their ways are entertaining tosay the least! 

Then we’ve had the feedback form the parents, the really grateful ones who cant believe their kids have just cooked them something edible and want to cook to show off their new skills; To the ones who are just coming back to share their stories of the new found expeience – their 18 year olds actually helping in the kitchen and taking an interest.  Their question to me is – How do i do it? 

All in all its been a great summer – we’ve taught hundreds of budding pre university students a very valuable life skill even before they’ve got to the ‘big learning school’ and just equipped to look after themselves in the most basic way known to man …TO EAT PROPERLY.  

Good luck you guys …..

The class in question was Teenagers cookery class.

For more information about learning to cook please contact www.thecookingacademy.co.uk