Monday, February 7, 2011

Sous Chefs-

Hot and sour soup for Day 10- watch demo on how to cook shrimp in broth, make soup in a wok, hot hold. Day 11 is Coconut Chicken soup - easy, just follow the recipe and taste for fish sauce and lime with me when it's done.
Salad - Green papaya, watch demo on papaya fabrication
Sticky rice AND Steamed Jasmine rice
Set up Street food station - similar to Vietnamese set-up, chaffing dish on Station 5 with 1/3 pans for hot food, cool food, plates, sweet chili sauce, etc. should all be set up near the chaffing dish. Draw a complete diagram of how the station will be set up with all components and items labeled in diagram. Sweet Thai Chili sauce comes from store room - bottles labeled "Mai Ploy". This goes in ramekins in center of plate. Peanut sauce for Satay DOES NOT go in a ramekin - hold it in a small plastic cup on the side and put a dab on top of each satay as it goes out.

I have a couple of extra street food items we can add on - the lemon grass beef skewers and some BBQ pork - no recipes for either, just talk to me before 7:30 and I'll tell/show you what to do. If anyone else is interested in picking one of these items up, call out in the "comment" section.

The Steam table will need to be used to hold the Curries, the pad thai, the squid, and the jasmine rice. Put each curry in a 1/3 pan, the Pad Thai and Squid in 1/2 pans and the Jasmine rice in a full hotel pan. Draw a diagram- make it complete. Plates: Curry Sampler in a 12" shallow bowl, Pad Thai in a deep noodle bowl, Chicken Rice - chicken and sauce in a casserole dish sitting on an oval plate with rice and their own cucumber/tomato salad, Squid in an oval casserole on an oval plate, rice on the side of the oval plate.



Station #2 -

Chicken Rice is served room temp in summer, plated at room temp and reheated in a wok steamer across from Table #2 in the cooler months, so it's cold- set up the wok steamer. Entire plate is picked up from your station. You need to make your own rice, make it pilaf style and use rendered duck fat to parch the rice. Pandan leaf is usually available - order it on supplemental if you don't see it on the invoice in the morning. For Service you will need:
- Chaffing dish to hold rice
- Shallow "gratin" dishes to hold chicken and sauce, gratin dish sits on large oval plate with rice and cucumber/tomato/cilantro garnish (this is like and undressed salad tossed together).
- Service utensils to plate. Draw a complete diagram of how the station will be set up with all components and items labeled in diagram.

Yellow Shrimp Curry - use the curry paste to make the yellow curry sauce. Make the sauce completely except for the shrimp. Hold sauce for service and gently poach the shrimp in 1/3 batches in 1/3 of the sauce - this keeps the shrimp from over-cooking on the steam table.

Station 3-
The squid is stir fried, divide the MEP into 4 batches as usual, you can mix the Oyster Sauce, fish sauce, sugar, and chicken stock together before service. Watch the video, it's pretty easy. I want to do the first batch with you. Squid will be served from the steam table in a 1/2 hotel pan in an oval casserole on an oval plate with Jasmine rice on the side.

The satay - trim off external fat and collagen from Flank steak and let me show you how to cut it for satay. You will trim and cut the meat, then put it on skewers, THEN marinate it. Talk to me or one of the people from Station 5 Day 8+9 about how to set up the Satay grill, you'll need to fire up charcoal and keep feeding the grill with more charcoal as it burns down. When service is over, place hot charcoal in a hotel pan of water before putting in the compost. You need to gently re-heat 1/2 the peanut sauce that was made on Day 8. This sauce breaks easily when heated, if it breaks on you, fix it the same way that you would fix a broken mayonnaise. Watch the video on how to pound meat - I'll have a meat mallet for you to use. Make 2x the cucumber salad - this will go with satay and fish cake on every street food plate.

Station #4 -
Make 2x each curry recipe. It's important to start them early, so hustle. Use small rondos or large sauce pots with covers, remember to keep them covered until the meat is tender to avoid drying out and burning by evaporation. Also remember that you can braise in the oven - the range will get crowded later in the morning, if you don't have room on top of the stove, you can finish in the oven. The braises should go to the steam table in 1/3 hotel pans

Start the lamb broth by roasting the bones - that's all for Day 10 - just roast the lamb bones and the lamb shoulder, cool and store. On Day 11 you should start a stock with the roasted bones as soon as you arrive.

Station #5-

Duck Curry - recipe is pretty self explanatory. Ask for clarification on the blog if you need it. Served from a 1/3 pan on the steam table.

Fish cakes - important that you have a VERY sharp knife to hand mince the fish. Also very important that the long beans are sliced into PAPER thin rounds, if you slice them thicker, the cakes fall apart. Please ask for a demo on slicing the beans before you start. Cakes should be fired in a 325 fryer in small batches as needed for service and put on the street food station in 1/3 pans.

Station #6
Pad Thai- Stir fried dish, divide MEP into 4 batches, it's ok to combine ingredients for sauce ahead. Make sure to have lime and peanuts for garnish. Served from 1/2 hotel pan in steam table into deep noodle bowls. Be sure NOT TO OVER SOAK THE NOODLES - about 5 minutes in very hot tap water(NOT BOILING WATER). The idea is for them to be pliable, not ready to eat. In the wok you will add more liquid and heat and they will become done at that point. I believe that the embedded video may not be exactly the same recipe as the one you have, if it looks different, the technique is the same. Remind me if it's different and we can shoot a new video.
Seafood "yam" is the seafood salad. Easy to make, hold at room temp in a 1/3 or 1/6 pan for use on the street food station.
Pork Vindaloo - follow recipe for 1st stage of the paste - this is important, DON'T forget to do it.

Questions?

8 comments:

  1. Hi Chef,

    In the blog post it says to make 2X the curry recipes, but I thought you told me in our conversation at the end of the day to only make a single recipe of each. Should we make 10 portions or 20? And if 20, will we have enough curry paste for both days? Upon quick examination it looked like there was only enough curry paste for 10 portions per day, or one day of 20 portions. Thanks for the clarification.

    --Joel Eisenberg

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  3. I am also interested in picking up the grilled pork recipe. I will ask you about it at the beginning of class. Thanks.

    --Joel Eisenberg

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  4. Chef, I'm on station 2 tomorrow. For the yellow shrimp curry, do you want the cherry tomatoes halved? Also do we have to scale the Chicken recipe? For the salad, do you want the tomatoes sliced very thin as well?

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  5. Joel, I'm sorry, I needed to clarify the yield line in the recipe. If you make 1x the recipe for each curry they each yield about 20 small tasting portions - not 10. We should have enough of everything for both days.
    The grilled pork will simply take the already cooked pork belly, slice 1"x3"x1/4" slabs and skewer them (let me show you what I mean before you cut any) and then skewer and grill them.
    Karen - cherry tomatoes should always be cut before cooking so they don;'t explode on the diner when they are soft and hot.

    You will receive 3-4 whole chickens, each chicken will yield 4 portions, you don't have to scale anything to accommodate them -3 or 4, doesn't make enough difference to effect anything else.The "salad" for the chicken rice will need the tomatoes sliced thin.

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  6. Hello chef,
    We are sous chefs tomorrow and were wondering what the sticky rice was used for? The schedule says to make 4 cups but we cant find who is using it tomorrow. Also the green papaya salad only makes 10 portions and the schedule says to only make one recipe, is this correct? thanks chef

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  7. Chef,

    Pat and I are on station 6 tomorrow we are wondering about the powdered lemon grass in the seafood yam. Will we get a powdered form in and if so how much should we use I know the recipe says 2 stalks. Thanks Chef

    Oz and Pat

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  8. Alissa - Sticky rice will go on Street fod plate, same as VN. Green papaya salad will be served in very small portions on street food plate as well. 1x recipe is sufficient

    Kyle - make it in the spice grinder, the way we talked about in class today.

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