Gluten Free Week | 5 Day Cooking Course
Learning to make gluten free pasta or to bake gluten-free in Italy with a professional chef for a week. Taught in English.
Italy is the land of focaccia, pasta, bread, pizzas and pastries, it’s certainly not known for its gluten free approach.
But our chef will teach you how to make some of our favorite recipes with gluten free ingredients.
Flourless Italian Recipes are here: if you are celiac or gluten intolerant, this is the perfect week long cooking course for you!
A Week of Gluten-Free Cooking, Pasta and Baking in Italy
A Fabulous week in Veneto region – Padova – Italy
Our focus will be on regional Italian cuisines but will also include classic and modern recipes, of course gluten-free!
Half the day will be spent cooking or baking while the other half of the day will be spent exploring the area (6 nights accommodation included).
Learn how to replace flour and gluten in some of the most traditional Italian recipes.
Every season will have its dishes prepared by you from fresh seasonal ingredients found locally.
Whats we’ll be cooking (here is a sample of some of the recipes we’ve done in the past courses) all gluten free:
- Focaccia from scratch
- Antipasti
- Fettuccine from scratch
- Ravioli
- Potato Gnocchi
- Creamy Risottos
- Baked pasta al forno
- Timballo rice
- Stuffed tomatoes with rice
- Fish dishes or meat dishes
- Pizza
- GF Desserts: tiramisu, chocolate mousse, biscotti, gelatos from scratch, tart crostata, pastries, custard crema pasticcera, sorbettos.
So we will plan on baking or prepping focaccias or bread everyday of course.
All classes are taught in English!
Itinerary includes: Italian-themed gluten free cooking. pasta making. bread baking for 5 half days along with a market visit, and wine and cheese tasting. Much more below.
Course Expectations
- Menu planning – To develop an understanding of the basic principles of menu planning and layout.
- Food preparation – To develop skills in knife, tool and equipment handling and apply principles of food preparation to produce a variety of foods, sauces, soups and stocks. Match sauces to appropriate food.
- Identify and describe different types of grains and legumes.
- Bread or Focaccia or Pizza Preparation – To develop skills about the art of bread baking in the real Italian style.
- Pasta Making – To develop and perform the basic principles and to use standard pasta recipes (from scratch) procedures properly.
- Matching and cooking vegetables to appropriate methods
- Baking and Pastry preparation – To demonstrate strong skills in baking and pastry making (Cream Puff Pastry Crema Pasticcera, Gelatin Deserts Panna Cotta, Puddings Budini and/or Cream Filings, Tart, Cookies Biscotti.
- Gelato making – To develop and perform the basic recipes about the art of making gelato from scratch
- Learning the properties and functions of ingredients.
- During the course you will learn different cooking Techniques (about Meats Beef, or Lamb, Veal, Pork, Poultry) (about Seafood and Fish).
Privatize a Week: Want to privatize the Week with us for your family or group? Private gluten free courses are fully customizable.
You can email us about privatizing this program.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us
The dates are somewhat flexible, so if you have other dates that are of interest, please let us know, especially if you have a group of friends you would like to bring along!
We are available about a week gluten free cooking course YEAR 2024: starting each Sunday, last day on Saturday
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