Basic Domestic Course

After a long and exhausting day, all any of us want to do is to relax and immerse ourselves in good, warm and hearty comfort food. While some people consider cooking to be an activity in which to indulge themselves, not all find it so. If you empathise, why not let your domestic helper take charge?

Domestic Helper Basic Cooking Course:

• Course duration: total of 4 lessons; one lesson a week over 4 weeks
• Duration of lessons: 4 hours per lesson
• Time: 9.30 am to 1.30 pm
• Package includes: recipes folder, ingredients and materials
• Participant to bring: containers to pack food
• Approach: demonstration plus semi hands-on

Lesson I: Kitchen Fundamentals & Breakfast Ideas:

• Personal & kitchen hygiene
• Reading a recipe – measurements & definitions
• Homemade chocolate chunk muffin
• Homemade pancake with banana, walnuts and maple syrup
• Eggs florentine with toasted baguette
• Srambled egg with sauteed button mushrooms and grilled tomato
• Homemade muesli bar with honey, raisin and oats
• Hokkaido milk loaf (partificpants will learn how to make the dough from scratch)

Lesson II: Food Safety & Wholesome Lunch:

• Food & kitchen safety
• Basic chicken stock
• Ipoh chicken kuey teow soup
• Hainanese chicken rice with homemade chili sauce
• Thin & crispy pizza
• Rainbow fried vermicelli

Lesson III: Menu Planning & Comfort Dinner:

• Planning a menu
• Basic table-setting
• Classic caesar salad
• Roast chicken with root vegetables and quick & easy homemade gravy
• Grilled fish with buttered beans
• One-pot pasta
• Basic nasi lemak with sambal and condiments

Lesson IV: Recipes Modification & Delectable Desserts:

• How to modify recipes
• Chocolate chip cookies
• Moist butter cake
• Chocolate marble cake
• Dark chocolate and walnut brownies
• Vanilla swiss roll