Basic Italian Cooking Skills

Name: Basic Italian Cooking Skills
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Learn how to cook like a genuine italian chef

Created byLuca La Rosa

Last updated 11/2018

English

What you'll learn

After my course, student will be able to cook 16 of the most important italian recipes, how to combine flavors and serve tasty meals.

Course content

1 section • 17 lectures • 1h 35m total length

Course preview: Basic Italian Cooking Skills1:09
The perfect soffritto6:55
Soffritto, is for italians, the holy trinity of italian cuisine.
Soffritto is the Italian word for “under-fried” or “fried slowly” and perfectly describes the process of gently cooking the vegetables in oil to soften them and release their flavor.
These ingredients are usually cooked in extra virgin olive oil to release their flavors and are used commonly when creating soups, sauces, stews, or braises
In Italian cuisine, soffritto include onions, celery, and carrots in a 2:1:1
In this lesson, you will learn how to prepare and cook a perfect italian soffritto.
Fresh tomato sauce7:52
After learned how to prepare soffritto, it's time to use it with the most famous italian sauce, the tomato sauce.
Spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce and basil3:44
In this lesson you will learn how to use soffritto and tomato sauce to prepare and cook a typical italian pasta: spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce and basil.
Carbonara Spaghetti4:54
Authentic Pasta Carbonara is easy to make, full of bacon flavor, and smothered in a cheesy egg sauce that will make you crave more.
Learn how to cook this delicious pasta, a classic italian dish which is quick and easy to master.
The original Pesto Sauce4:01
Learn how to make pesto for use as a sauce or dip. This Italian condiment adds a burst of fresh flavor to any dish and it's perfect with pasta!
Pesto is an essential condiment traditionally made from fresh basil leaves, ripened Pecorino Romano cheese, Parmigiano cheese, garlic, pine nuts and a good quality extra virgin olive oil.
Risotto with saffron8:28
Risotto alla Milanese (with saffron) it's a beautiful bright and easy risotto with butter added at the end to give a lovely silky richness. Perfect for lunchtime entertaining
Roasted and baked potatoes2:06
Roasted Potatoes are a very simple but delicious side dish that goes with pretty much any meal.
You can vary the seasonings on these oven-roasted potatoes based on what’s in your spice cupboard or what herbs are growing in your garden!
Meatballs with cherry tomatoes sauce6:14
The World’s Best Meatball Recipe: An authentic recipe for Italian style meatballs.
Learn how to coow with my original grandma's recipe.
Milanese steak5:40
As the name suggests, the steak Milanese recipe comes from Lombardy, the region around Milan.
Learn how to prepare the authentic steak Milanese, an authentic italian icon.
Caponata7:06
These sweet and sour marinated vegetables have Sicilian origins.
Serve as a side dish or slather on some thick crusty Italian bread.
Linguine with fresh clams5:47
Just beyond the best-loved Italian pasta recipes,there is one dish that ideally combines pasta and the sea.
How to prepare linguine with clams, a delicious and traditional Italian pasta recipe prepared with five ingredients only: find out the best cooking tips.
Spaghetti with seafood and shellfish8:58
A classic, easy seafood pasta made using a seafood marinara mix: prawns / shrimp, calamari, clams and mussels tossed through a simple, tasty tomato sauce. Made properly, the real proper Italian way, this Seafood Spaghetti is dinner on the table in 20 minutes
Octopus and potatoes salad4:05
A refreshing salad made with potatoes and octopus dressed with olives, herbs and olive oil.
Baked whole fish in crust salt5:27
This method is common in Sicily and produces a really moist, perfectly seasoned fish.
If you love fish, this is a technique you should try. Not only is it remarkably simple, it is almost foolproof, resulting in a perfectly cooked fish with little effort.
Swordfish with veggies and tomatoes sauce7:23
This easy swordfish recipe is packed with Mediterranean flavours.
Quick and easy to prepare crowd pleaser, featuring the fragrances and flavours of summer.
Filet of fish in foil with herbs and potatoes5:16
A very easy italian recipe ideal for a genuine and healthy quick meal.
Baking fish fillets is the easiest way to ensure a tender, flaky entrée that maintains its flavor and doesn’t dry out

Requirements

People need just to be curious about italian food and how to make it. Know how to use normal cooking tools. No professional skills are required.

Description

For lovers of Italian cuisine, Basic Italian Cooking Skills can jump-start a lifelong passion in starters, pasta, main courses and side dishes.

This course centered on authenticity and aptitude in Italian Cooking. In 16 lessons, you will cover topics including pasta, vegetables, seafood, meat and fish.

More specific, students will learn how to prepare soffritto, and use it for tomato sauce and spaghetti with tomato sauce and basil.

Five other lessons are focused on pasta: Carbonara, Pesto sauce, Risotto with saffron, Linguine with fresh clams and Spaghetti with seafood and shell food.

Other two lessons are focused about vegetables. You will learn how to prepare Caponata and perfect Roasted and baked potatoes.

Fish and meat complete the course focusing about Meatballs with fresh tomato sauce and Milanese steak.

Finally you will leant how to cook four fish main courses: Octopus and potatoes, Whole fish in crust salt, Swordfish with veggies and herbs and Filet of fish in foil with potatoes.

I will offer my knowledge about Italian cuisine, which I learned during my long experience as a chef and owner of three Italian restaurants.

Students will gain an intensive overview of Italian culture and cooking, that are then yours for a lifetime of sharing with family and friends.

UPGRADE MAY 2020:

I add a special certificate.

The course will teach you how to cook 15 Italian recipes.

Students will send me pics of 10 different recipes will receive a nominative printable certificate.

Who this course is for:

Curious people, beginners and also amatorial advanced cooker.