What food can i cook for a final practical cooking test at school?!
Answers: anything try to be fine dining
Pan seared Scallops with rissoto & asparagus.
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2 cups baby spinach
1 tbsp shallot (1/2 shallot)
2 strips smoked bacon
Preparing the Vinaigrette
4 tbsp sherry (preferably a cream sherry)
2 tbsp sherry vinegar
1/3 cup apple juice
Pan-Searing the Scallops
12 whole scallops
3 tbsp clarified butter
1/4 tsp Kosher salt - can substitute with 1/8 tsp. table salt
1/4 tsp white pepper
2 tbsp non clarified butter
Finishing and Plating the Scallops
1 pinch fleur de sel (for garnish)
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Mushroom pepper steak
Take a nice cut of steak ad season generously with fresh ground pepper and cook either in the pan or under the grill for 5-7 minutes on each side or until done to your preffered/required taste.
Take 1 pkt maggi mushroom soup mix and mix with 2 cups cream and one cup milk., simmer until smooth and thick, add cooked mushrooms and more ground pepper.if desired add fresh crushed garlic to taste.
Serve with garlic mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables.
May not be fine dining...? depends on how fine dining is catergorised by your teacher.
Chicken Marsala
dredge chicken medallions in seasoned flour
add to hot butter and brown ,remove then add 1/4 cup Marsala and 1/4 cup cream...reduce.and pour over medallions.
practical cooking and fine dining dont really go hand in hand, but one of my faves is roast beef, mashed potatos with sour cream, and yorkshire pudding. and gravy. make it right, and you will have people on your doorstep at dinnertime everynight, including me! and since yorkshire pudding is kind of fussy, your teacher will be impressed.
as far as "practical" goes, you can have the roast and the potatos done in a slow cooker ahead of time, and just have to do the yorkshire pud.... and whip the potatos and carve the roast, make the gravy out of whats left in the slow cooker, some worchestershire sauce, and salt and pepper, with some flour to thicken. some carrots and broccolli steamed on the side,and your good to go.
you can cook fried rice using ketchup and some salt and sugar. Convince the teacher that it's a good meal and if all means fail try to bribe the teacher
Seriously u wanna score well u gotta present ur food HOT,
make sure u are not the 1st to present unless the tester will test it immediately when u bring it in.
pls do something which u have done before, if u have no confidence in the food that u cooked then practise more before u wan to present to anybody.
Roast rack of lamb with saffron potatoes and sugar snap peas.
1. Season the lamb well with salt and pepper and, if you like, rub on some garlic puree. Bake for 25 minutes at 230C then allow to rest for 10 minutes
2. Dice the potatoes and boil in salted water with a pinch of saffron added until tender. Mash well with cream and butter.
3. Blanche the sugar snap peas for 2-3 minutes (Max!!!) in salted boiling water.
Pile the mashed potatoes in the middle of the plate and arrange the individual lamb cutlets leaning against it so that the bones meet in the middle of the mash.
Arrange 2-3 small piles of sugar snap peas around the mash in between the lamb cutlets.
Simple but delicious and it looks really good.
I also like to caramalise some shallots and sit these on top of the mash - the sweetness of the peas and shallots contrasts really well with the richness of the lamb.
Yummy!!