Culinary School – Week Twenty One – Asian and Latin American Cuisine

By Gaby

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I love focusing on specific types of cuisine at Culinary School. It is so fun to dive into a culture and play around with different flavors… especially when they involve hot and spicy chilies! Did you know that the HOTTEST Chile in the world is called the Ghost Chile… its from India and has over 1,000,000 scoval units! You couldn’t pay me to even lick that thing… no thank you!

Before diving into the food we tried Fresh Figs – love it!


And some Garbanzo Pods… I should have confiscated this and make hummus…


This Pad Thai was gone within 5 minutes of plating it! Stuffed with chicken and shrimp and full of flat rice noodles… this is definitely a recipe that I will be recreating at home from time to time!


These Radicchio Taco stuffed with smoked chicken, asparagus and red chile mayo were gorgeous! It was served over a cilantro pineapple salsa… which I could eat plain any given day! The salsa had chile pequins in it and even 1 tsp packed a HUGE punch! Seriously – don’t touch your eyes after touching those suckers – you will be crying for days!


Stir Fried Seafood and Vegetable Medley! Loved this dish! We each fired our own stir fry and I stuffed mine with a billion mushrooms (you know my obsession), red peppers, green onions and shrimp. yumm yumm yumm


O.M.G. This decadent stuffed Chile Relleno was down right sinful. Stuffed with jack, cotija and 2 other cheeses along with herbs and chorizo and deliciousness! omg… it these things were fried I would have devoured at least 5 of them… Not to mention it was served ontop of cilantro cream… omg… there aren’t even words to describe this heavenly dish.


just look at those cheeses inside… downright amazing!


These Salmon Mousse Tamales with Ground Nixtamal and Cilantro Cream Sauce were also quite delicious! Tamales are always a crowd pleaser – and these designer Tamales did not disappoint.


Last but certainly not least is the rice pudding! Cooked in coconut milk and seasoned with the mutant coconut, this dish was great!


Next week we move onto advanced preparations of meat and we are going to be making our own sausages!!

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  1. Great dishes! I love making latin food and always enjoy a good stir fry (in fact thats on the menu for tonight!). I want to try a Radicchio Taco !!!

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  3. You've selected some wonderful dishes to share with us. Your photos are terrific and that bit about the Ghost Chile was really new to me. I've never seen one.

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  7. If you create a Pad Thai recipe, please post it! I would definitely use it. I've wanted to make Pad Thai at home for a while now, but just haven't for some reason… maybe I haven't found the right recipe. :o)

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  9. This all looks so great! That Chile Relleno is one of the best I've seen so I would imagine it tastes just as wonderful. 🙂 I learned about the ghost chile on the show Man vs. Food. I love spicy food, but couldn't imagine eating something like that!

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  10. These dishes look wonderful! I would love a taste of that chile relleno! I didn't know about the Ghost Chile – wonder if I can find it, my hubby really likes super spicy (jabaneros are not spicy enough for him!)

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  11. It is fascinating seeing the garbanzo pods. I've never seen that before. Sometimes you don't realize what your food really looks like in its natural state.

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  13. i would have loved this course, everything looks so tasty! i just love south american food, and thai food, and all kinds of food! ok, i'm hungry now…

    pity

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  15. I don't know how these foods remained uneaten long enough for you to take photos! All of them would have big bite marks if it were left to me. 8-D

    I've got to say it: the last dish – rice cooked in coconut milk – is my favorite!! [Drooling]

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