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Cooking Class: Delicious Chicken Dishes - Winter Menu

Delicious Chicken Dishes~ Winter Menu
Instructor: Eric Carter
Date(s) - 9 Jan 2014 
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

The Let's Cook! Kitchen

Chicken is a wonderfully versatile food incredibly delicious when prepared right but also an excellent protein source.

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In this class we will begin by learning about the craft of brining, sectioning, and watch a demonstration on how to butterfly a whole chicken. From there we will prepare several seasonal chicken dishes.

Skills covered in class:

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Roasting, Baking, Stewing, Trussing, cooking seasonally, balancing flavors, nutritional information, chicken selection, cooking tips and techniques. You will sample the dishes you helped prepare and go home with great recipes you can re-create at home.

Students will work in groups of 2-5

The class will finish with a Q & A with the chef  and a discussion on how to to create stock from  the chicken parts that you can use to create soups and sauces in your own home.

Menu:

Roasted Whole Chicken with Bacon, rosemary thyme and garlic

Southern Fried chicken

Stewed Poulet Midi – Stewed Chicken with garlic, artichokes, olives and
sun dried tomatoes

Lemon herb  Chicken

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