#63–Attend a Cooking Class

This our meal of the week and I got to cross an item off my list while doing it!

The menu:

Vegetable Pakora

Butter Chicken

Jeera Rice

Dal Makhani (Black gram lentils)

Mango Fruit Cream

The class started out a bit chaotic but once we got into the swing of things we were on a roll. I chose an Indian cuisine cooking class because I find the spices are quite difficult to perfect. The instructor gave some really great tips for getting the spices just right, as you can see in the picture below!

1. All spices should be bought fresh and whole

2. Spices should be ground together to make a Tandoori Masala (cumin, corriander, cardamom, cinnamon, and cloves). After ground in a coffee grinder they can be sealed in an air tight container for months.

3. Don’t panic until you add Kasurimethi, it really makes butter chicken sauce what it is

4. If at first you don’t succeed, spice spice again..

Overall it was a really fun class and made for some amazing food. I’ll have to try making this again at home to see if I can duplicate it. It was pretty tricky..

If we had made this at home and returned flavours and results like this it would have been a 10/10 but we can’t take all the credit for meal. Our portion of the meal was a 9/10, a little less tomato sauce and it would have been a 10.