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Khmer Cooking
If you’re interested in
learning how to cook some of the fabulously tasty Cambodian Dishes
then we are able to offer two different Khmer cookery schools, one
in Phnom Penh and the other in Siem Reap. On both courses you get
the chance to visit the local market to source your ingredients and
either choose a more structured cookery school or pick your
favourite dishes from the menu and learn how to cook them.
Some guide books say that Cambodia’s cuisine is nothing to write
home about and a poorer cousin to Thai and Vietnamese cuisines. Now,
that is completely untrue.
A thousand years ago the Khmer Kingdom, which centered on Angkor,
ruled an empire that included most of south-east Asia. Hence, many
of the Thai and other regional dishes have their roots in Khmer
cooking from that time!
While there are similarities, Cambodian cuisine should be taken in
its own right. Khmer recipes go back to the days before the
introduction of the chilly, so are consequently much milder than
most Asian food.
Cooking in
Phnom Penh
4 Hour Course (9am to 1pm) = £15 per person
8 Hour Course (9am to 4pm) = £20 per person
On this course you choose within your group which meal you would
like to cook. Once a decision has been made you will be taken to the
market where you will purchase your ingredients and will learn
everything there is about Cambodian vegetables, herbs and spices.
You will then return to the school to cook and to enjoy your
culinary creations on the breezy rooftop terrace.
(In the 4 hour course you get to choose 2 dishes and in the 8 hour
course you cook the whole course menu)
Course 1
Spring Rolls how to make them the right way
Banana Blossom Salad with chicken or tofu
Decoration turn carrot & cucumber into a flower
Amok steamed coconut fish in banana leaves
Sweet Rice with palm sugar and sesame
Course 2
Sayong Jayk sausages in banana flower
Pomelo Salad with shrimps
Decoration turn carrot & cucumber into a flower
Red/Green Chicken Curry or Amok
Pumpkin Dessert
Classes start at 9am and you will be given a colourful 16-page
recipe booklet, with pictures and descriptions to take away with
you.
Cooking in
Siem Reap
Classes start at 10am, 1pm or 5pm
3 Hour Course = £15 per person
This cookery school also runs its own restaurant so you are able to
pick your favourite dishes from the menu before being taught how to
prepare and cook the dish by one of the restaurants Khmer chef’s.
You also take a trip to the nearby local market to source all of
your ingredients.
Specialities: include Amok, a medley of freshwater Mekong shrimp,
Tonle Sap fish, coconut and locally produced vegetables. |
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