Cooking class
Japanese.
Precise, umami, refined. Yakitori chicken skewers with tare sauce, okonomiyaki with dancing bonito flakes, and a Ice cream with miso caramel sauce.
What is a Japanese cooking class at Julia’s?
A Japanese cooking class at Julia’s Cooking Studio is three hours of cooking, in which you make yakitori with tare sauce, okonomiyaki with bonito flakes, and ice cream with miso caramel sauce.
There is more quiet in this class than you expect. Japanese cooking asks for precision, and that comes by itself once your hands are in it.
Umami is the fifth taste, and here you stand right on top of it.
While we cook I explain where that taste comes from. From the tare with sake and mirin that you caramelise above the flame, from the bonito flakes still moving on the warm pancake, and finally from the miso in the dessert.
Between each course you sit at the table in the home-style restaurant. You go home with the recipes.
Three hours, and this is what’s on your plate.
Yakitori chicken skewers
Marinated in tare, grilled hot. Salty, sticky, deeply satisfying.
Okonomiyaki with bonito flakes
The Japanese savoury pancake. Cabbage, batter, a topping ballet.
Ice cream with miso caramel sauce
Cool and warm at once. Salt-sweet, layered, unexpected.
Roughly this rhythm.
Welcome
Chinese tea from Yunnan and a snack. Time to settle in, meet each other.
Recipes
Julia explains what we’re making. You take the recipes home.
Cook and eat
Cook one course, then sit at the table to eat what you just made.
Ready for japanese?
Four to twenty-two people, in the studio in Bergschenhoek. Julia confirms within 24 hours by email.