Restaurant Favorites: Copycat Edition

Service Description

Join us for a delicious hands-on culinary class where students will learn how to create the Restaurant Favorite Chicken Madeira completely from scratch! This elegant dish features tender, perfectly seared chicken topped with asparagus and a rich mushroom Madeira-style sauce, served alongside creamy mashed potatoes for a beautiful balance of flavors and textures. In this class, students will learn the fundamentals of building a flavorful pan sauce while exploring how ingredients contribute depth, richness, and balance. A special focus will be placed on understanding ingredient substitutions, including how to replace cooking wines and other alcoholic ingredients with delicious non-alcoholic alternatives such as broths, juices, vinegars, and reductions—an important skill that can be applied to countless recipes. Students will also prepare smooth, creamy mashed potatoes, learning techniques for properly cooking, mashing, and seasoning potatoes to achieve the perfect texture. In addition, they will learn the important culinary technique of blanching asparagus, discovering how to quickly cook vegetables to preserve their bright color, crisp-tender texture, and fresh flavor. Skills Learned: • Proper chicken preparation and searing techniques • Sautéing mushrooms and aromatics • Building a rich pan sauce from scratch • Learning non-alcoholic substitutions for cooking wines and spirits • Making smooth, creamy mashed potatoes • Blanching asparagus for optimal texture and color • Understanding flavor layering and balancing acidity, sweetness, and savoriness • Kitchen safety, timing, and organization A wonderful class for students ready to expand their culinary knowledge and create a sophisticated, restaurant-quality meal from scratch! 🍗🍄🥔🥬✨ Class Guidelines: *Please ensure long hair is all tied back PRIOR to arriving in class. *Participants will be standing for most of the class, please wear Closed-Toed shoes. *This is a drop-off program designed to foster independence in the kitchen. *Missed classes are non-refundable—please review our Cancellation Policy. In each class, students work together in teams of two, fostering teamwork and camaraderie. As part of the experience, they'll make and enjoy some of the food they created during class. They'll also have the chance to take a portion of their creation home to share including the recipes, as the focus is on learning and practicing Culinary techniques.