Italian cooking workshop
This workshop is the most popular in my cooking studio. Everybody loves Italian food, so this is a delicious choice! Join me in the kitchen to prepare a mouthwatering Italian 4-course dinner.
At the moment the theme is Sicily, the sun drenched island in the Meditarranean. In the pasta course you will sense the Arabic flavours, the heritage of the Arabs who conquered the island in the distant past.
The recipes will be sent the day after the Italian cooking workshop.
The menu
THE SICILIAN MENU
oven baked crostini with a spread of cannellini beans and basil
This appetizer will be served during cooking.
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sarsa piccanti, pasta with tomato, nutmeg, clove, allspice, fennelseeds and capers. This dish shows the culinary influence of the Arabian occupation of Sicily centuries ago.
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pollo con peperoni, boneless chickenthigh with red and green sweet peppers, rosemary, a hint of mint, capers, white wine and a dash of white vinegar. Served with 3 side dishes.
for the vegetarians: fritelle di cannellini, cannellini bean patties, grated lemon zest, sun dried tomatoes and rosemary
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cassata Siciliana, ricotta tart with ricotta, chocolate and cristalized fruit
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hazelnut biscotti with a hint of cinnamon, crunchy cookies to be served with coffee at the end of the workshop
The meat used in the Italian cooking workshop comes from my butcher’s own farm in Amsterdam.
Useful information
- Book a cooking workshop and combine activity and dinner on the same location.
- You don't have to share the cooking studio with other guests.
- The price for this cooking workshop is € 89,— p.p. for the exclusive use of the studio, the workshop, the 4-course dinner and all drinks.
- The cooking workshops can be booked for groups starting from 14 persons or a minimum amount of € 1246,— and the maximum is 38 guests.
- Please note that the workshops can only be booked for a group of your own, we don’t offer workshops for individuals.
- The workshops take between 4 hours in total and can start at any time.
- CHEAP PARKING under the kookstudio in the parking garage by Myway, entrance in Kleine Houtstraat, Parking Jordaan.
- For companies and organisations the prices are excl. BTW/VAT
About the Italian cooking workshop
The cooking workshop starts with a drink in the dining room. As soon as the group is complete I’ll invite you to the kitchen. During a short introduction about the menu I will let you taste and smell some of the ingredients.
Everybody starts with the preparation of all the dishes and the first course will be served while cooking. Next the second course will be served in the dining room. The same for main and dessert. We end with coffee, tea and cookies. As a group you make all the dishes yourself but we take care that you don’t have to spend too much time in the kitchen.
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