Rice Paper Rolls with Vietnamese dipping sauce

Today we made rice paper rolls with a Vietnamese dipping sauce, which were delicious. In this lesson, I had learnt a new knife skill, which was to brunoise some chilli. To brunoise the chilli, I had to cut it into small cubes. Once all the prep for the filling was done, we had to soak the rice paper wrappers in some warm water, and then place it on a board. We then placed the filling in and wrapped it. I already knew how to wrap these as I had made a similar food before. These smell amazing, and I can't wait to try them and share with mum and dad!

Chili chicken with coconut and basil

In this practical lesson, we made chili chicken with coconut and basil, with an accompany of rice. We first had to chop up all the ingredients, and once that was done, we put all the ingredients in a wok and stirred it. While that was cooking, the rice was placen in a pot with water and was just left until cooked. I'm not a fan of coconuts, so I didnt eat this dish, although it did smell good. Hopefully my parents enjoy it!

Chow Mien

Today, we made chow mien, an Asian type of stir fry. My partner and I didn't add celery, because neither of us like the taste, and we only added half of the cabbage, to give the stir fry a bit of texture and crunch. We prepared almost everything, but the carrots were accidentally placed in the fry pan before the cabbage was cut, so we had to put it on a very low heat. When we added the curry, it smelt quite strong. As soon as the chow mien was finished, I tried a bit. It had a lot of curry flavour, but it tasted quite nice.