Applying Knowledge And Demonstrate Skills In Preparing Buis

Task

To apply knowledge and demonstrate skills in preparing, planning and serving an Asian fusion inspired dish suitable for serving and judging at the Restaurant and Catering Awards.

Factors

The dish must be suitable to serve at the Awards and therefore must be trendy and incorporate exciting Asian flavours with a modern Australian twist. It must reflect Australian ingredients such as lamb or macadamias while showcasing Asian flavours such as Vietnamese or Korean dishes.

The area of study (Sociocultural Influences) is being explored through developing an understanding of the different Asian cuisines, availability of ingredients, cooking techniques and plating of dishes. This knowledge will enable a decision to identify an Asian cuisine which

Reason

The dish selected would be appropriate to be incorporated onto a modern Australia or Thai restaurant as it is offering to the customer a new innovative dish in terms of flavour and textures.

The dish chosen features lamb roast, a typically Australian meal, cooked with Thai flavours. Lamb is not featured strongly in Thai cuisine so this is a modern twist to the dish.

Lamb fillet has been selected as it is suitable to be cooked in a banana leaf where it will retain maximum flavour during the cooking process and is an unusual cooking technique for lamb.

The combination of herbs such as coriander and lemongrass showcases the flavours representative of Thai cuisine. The nam jim reflects a classical approach of balancing ingredients to create a hot, sour and tangy dressing to accompany the lamb dish. Food knowledge of Thai cuisine will be demonstrated in the various knife skills which will be used in the cutting of vegetables, and assembling of the salad.

A key feature of the dish is sourcing fresh ingredients from local producers. This dish has many parts which will need to be considered carefully in the use of space on the plate to balance all elements.