TRAVELING THE SPICE ROUTE
What an amazing role spices have played in history, romance, politics, religion,
medicine, war and of course cooking. Spices take you on a culinary journey
around the world without ever leaving your kitchen. The earliest evidence of
spices used by man was over 50,000 B.C., imagine what we use in our modern
kitchen’s today were being used in food prep or preservation over 50,000 years
ago! By the close of class, you will never use that pinch of pepper or sprinkle of
cinnamon with the same mindset or walk down the spice aisle without conjuring
up visions of exotic tastes from faraway places. In this class we will explore the
flavors of different ethnic cuisines by creating a variety of hand mixed spice
blends using a pestle and mortar, discuss whole, ground, smoked and toasted
spices plus storage. Join Le Chat Gourmet as we travel back through time
discovering the history of spices while learning to use spice blends that will
take your food from ordinary to extraordinary!

Sunday, March 15th
10 AM – 3 PM

Spice Recipes Include:
Taco Seasoning I Indian Curry Powder
Peri Peri Seasoning I Homemade Chili Powder
Tuscan Spice Blend I Marrakesh Spice Blend

Recipes include:

INDIAN CHICKEN CURRY
– succulent chicken cooked in a creamy curry yogurt sauce
made with tomatoes, sweet onions, fresh ginger
and our curry powder spice mix, served with basmati rice

CURRY POWDER
– hand blended curry powder with turmeric, cumin,
cloves, coriander, cardamom, mustard seeds,
cinnamon and cayenne pepper

MOROCCAN FISH TAGINE
– we’ll sauté sweet onions in a tagine,
then add fire roasted tomatoes, garlic, chicken broth,
mini sweet bell peppers, red potatoes, lemon,
tilapia fish filets and our exotic Marrakesh spice mix

MARRAKESH SPICE BLEND
– hand blended spice mix of paprika,
|cinnamon, ginger, cayenne pepper, cloves,
cardamom, allspice and cumin

TUSCAN OLIVE OIL DIPPING SAUCE
– who can resist bread with dipping sauce at an Italian
restaurant (not me!), we’ll make ours with Tuscan spice mix,
Italian olive oil, fresh garlic and parmesan cheese,
served with lovely warm artisan bread

TUSCAN SPICE BLEND
– hand blended Tuscan spice combination of oregano,
basil, rosemary, parsley and red pepper flakes

PORTUGUESE PERI PERI CHICKEN KEBABAS
– we’ll make our hand blended Peri Peri spice mix then
use it in a marinade for our char grilled chicken skewers
resulting in a sauce that’s garlicky, spicy, lemony,
tangy and utterly addictive!

PERI PERI SPICE MIX
– hand blended peri peri spice combination of
sweet paprika, garlic, onion, coriander, oregano,
cardamom, ginger, parsley and dried chili pepper

CHICKEN TACO KEBABS
– char grilled skewers of chicken rubbed
with our homemade taco seasoning

TACO SEASONING with HOMEMADE CHILE POWDER
– once you make this you will ‘never’ use store bought again!,
hand blended taco spice combination of cumin, garlic powder,
onion powder, paprika and homemade chili powder

HOMEMADE CHILE POWDER
– hand ground whole cayenne peppers,
cumin seeds, black peppercorns, kosher salt

“This is one of my favorite classes to teach, using whole spices
to create our own spice mixes for maximum flavor.
I multiply the Taco Seasoning recipe and always have a jar ready
for cooking, plus the Moroccan Fish Tagine is on of my
all-time-favorite dishes!” – Chef Vincent

$145 per person