Thursday, February 4, 2010

1st Kitchen practical 22nd Jan 2010

On 22nd January 2010, I had a kitchen practical class..
The menu for that day was Puree of pumpkin served with prawn, sour cream and fine mix herbs and Beef kebab with vegetables, parmesan-coriander risotto and choron sauce.
I made the pumpkin soup,,
This is how i made it

Prepare the vegetables
•Wash, clean the pumpkin, cut into wedges and remove the seeds.
•Cut the onion, celery, carrot into mirepoix size
•Peel and slice the onion
•Cut the beef bacon into strip
•Wash and clean the prawn
•Wash and clean the herbs

Bake the pumpkin
•Drizzle the pumpkin with oil, salt and crush black pepper
•Roast in oven 200C until soft

Making vegetables stock
•Put all the mirepoix vegetables into pot with 2 liter of water. Additional with bay leaf and peppercorn.

Blanch the prawn
•Put the prawn into boiling water until it cooked
•Take out from the boiling water and put into ice water to prevent the prawn over cook
•Peel the prawn and keep chill

Cooking of pumpkin soup
•After the pumpkin was cooked, remove the skin and keep aside
•Put butter into a pot, sweat the slice onion until fragrant then add in the sliced bacon, lastly add in the cooked pumpkin. Add in stock just to cover the pumpkin bring to boil and simmer for about 20-25 minutes.
Blend the soup, season and keep aside.


before it's served

in the soup tureen

the prawn

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