This course is ideal for household helpers who have little or no experience in cooking. Its course outline consists of one-day cooking classes focused on a particular cuisine. In line with the basic cooking course, 25 Mushrooms Kitchen is now offering cooking classes for kids, teens, mom and child tandem, private cooking classes and corporate team buildings.

Let 25 Mushrooms Kitchen turn your laundry lady, yaya, or any of your household helpers with no cooking experience into a certified home cook! Here is our Absolute Beginners HELPERS course outline and menus:

DAY 1 – Basic Cooking Skills

• Hands-on knife skills – slicing vegetables, meat and chicken, personal hygiene,
• Fresh homemade stocks – chicken stock, beef stock, vegetable stock
• Roasted pumpkin soup
• Baked lasagna
• Seared chicken with creamy mushrooms fettuccine
• Cooking techniques – simmering, baking, searing

DAY 2 – Japanese Cuisine

• Food safety and kitchen sanitation (lecture and games)
• California maki
• Chicken teriyaki rice topping
• Thai spring rolls with sweet and sour dip
• Steamed lapu-lapu with ginger soy sauce
• Cooking techniques – grilling, frying, steaming

DAY 3 – International Cuisine

• Table setting and basic waitering – food and wine service (role playing) and menu planning
• Paella valenciana
• Roast chicken in herbs with gravy
• Seafood pesto pasta
• Beef osso buco with pasta
• Cooking technique – brainsing, roasting, frying

DAY 4 – Breakfast and Brunch

• Proper etiquette, telephone manners, final evaluation (examination and role playing)
• Eggs benedict
• Homemade beef tapa with garlic rice
• Grilled tenderloin steak with truffle cream and porcini sauce served with marbled potatoes
• Red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
• Cooking technique – poaching, stir fry, grilling, baking

***Menus may change without prior notice depending on ingredient availability***

Classes are held at the VALLE VERDE 5 Cooking School, Valle Verde 5 Village Park, Pasig City
10AM-3PM
P5000/person – inclusive of ingredients
Lunch P65.00 (optional)
Apron P150.00 (optional)