Southern Indian market tour and cooking workshop (two sessions)

 
When:
February 21, 2020 @ 10:30 – 12:00
2020-02-21T10:30:00+11:00
2020-02-21T12:00:00+11:00
Where:
Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre
157 Union Rd
Surrey Hills VIC 3127
Australia
Cost:
$100 ($20 per hour)
Contact:
Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre
9890 2467

The tour of Springvale Market will be on Friday, 21st February, 10.30am-midday. The cooking workshop will be on the following day, Saturday, 22nd February, 10:30am–2pm.

Mary will take you on a tour of the Springvale market buying South Indian ingredients and will then demonstrate authentic South Indian cooking. This course is intended for people who wish to travel and improve both cooking skills and knowledge on India and Indian food.

On the market tour, Mary will identify various proteins, vegetables and spices used in South Indian cooking.

In the cooking session, you will learn how to prepare a variety of South Indian meat curries, spiced vegetables and different ways to cook rice. You will also learn how to temper spices to bring out the flavours when combining them with the meat and vegetables, and several ways of using grated coconut and aromatic rice using ghee flavoured with cardamom or similar. There will be a discussion on spices, identifying the most commonly used spices in Indian cooking, and the regions where spices come. The session will finish with the group eat a simple Keralan evening meal (chicken curry, cardamom rice and two vegetables) together.