6 Days Vegan Cooking Course in London, UK

Interested or involved in the vegan lifestyle? This fantastic course will teach you an array of scrumptious plant-based recipes that you'll become hooked on!

Each day will kick off with a lively demonstration, preparing you for the culinary adventure ahead. You will be preparing a 2-course lunch in the morning, and then in the afternoon you will prepare more delicious vegan dishes. Chef Richard will be there guiding you every step of the way.

On Thursday evening, The Avenue Cookery School runs a very special dinner party (Avenue-style!). Students will have the chance to invite friends and family to the dining table in the fully equipped kitchen and put their newly acquired skills into action. The Avenue Cookery School can guarantee that you will leave the Avenue with loads of new skills under your belt as well as some very good friends.

Vegan cooking course timings

• Monday - Wednesday: 09:00 - 17:00
• Thursday: 09:00 - 21:00 (including dinner party)
• Friday: 10:00 - 16:00

Monday

Morning demonstration

• Duty team - who is on duty and what their role is
• What they will get out of the course
• Health and safety
• Laying a table and serving etiquette i.e. serving and clearing plates and pouring wine
• Organization - how to wash up, clean up as you go along and keep the place clean and tidy
• Duty team to help out with demonstrations
• Making tea and coffee
• Cake
• Diana’s Bread
• Knife skills including sharpening knives
• White sauce and Beurre Manie
• Cooking broccoli
• Chocolate mousse

Lunch made by students (1.45 / 2 PM)

• Lentil Moussaka
• Broccoli
• Chocolate mousse

Duty team

• Cake
• Diana's Bread
• Lemonade

Afternoon cooking (2.45 / 3 PM)

• Chickpea casserole

Afternoon demonstration helped by a student

• Cooking rice/beans/pulses/grains
• Intro to herbs - hardy and fragile
• Making stock
• Kitchen maintenance
• How to make a shopping list
• Time planning

Residential supper

• Lentil chilli con carne
• Rice and peas
• Fruit

Tuesday

Morning demonstration

• Apples - peeling and cutting
• Leeks and carrots - julienne and how to cook
• Pastry - puff/shortcrust - lining a pastry case/topping a pie/making a galette/savory and sweet straws

Lunch made by students (1.45 / 2 PM)

• Chestnut, mushroom and onion pie
• Leeks and carrots
• Peanut and chia pudding

Duty team

• Cake
• Diana's Bread
• Lemonade

Afternoon cooking

• Caramelised onion tart
• Cauliflower cheese

Afternoon demonstration

• Falafel
• Cauliflower - cooking and talk about quantities of fat and flour needed for the cauliflower cheese/cauliflower steak
• Couscous
• Frying off vegetables
• Ice cream

Residential supper

• Falafel/onion tart
• Salad

Wednesday

Morning demonstration

• Nutloaf
• Seitan - how to make/different ways of using
• Potatoes - roast, rosti, fondant, rustic, hasselbacks, stacks, dauphinoise, baked, minted boiled new potatoes, crushed and roasted
• Cabbage shredded
• Gravy
• Oreo cheesecake
• Treacle tart
• Chocolate tart

Lunch made by students (1.45 / 2 PM)

• All of the above

Duty team

• Cake
• Diana's Bread
• Lemonade

Afternoon demonstration

• Tomatoes - blanching/concasse
• Beans - blanching
• Peppers - skinning
• Melba toast
• Garlic bread
• Garlic and coconut pitta
• Bruschetta

Afternoon cooking

• Humous
• Tomato bruschetta
• Pesto
• Babaganoush
• Melba toast

Residential supper

• Roasted vegetable
• Couscous
• Salad
• Fruit

Thursday

Morning demonstration

• Fruit preparation - for fruit salad
• Blanching vegetables
• Tarte tatin

Lunch made by students (1.45 / 2 PM)

• Butternut risotto with rocket
• Roasted vegetable couscous (already made)
• Garlic and coconut pitta
• Rocket salad
• Fruit salad
• Ice cream - coconut, vanilla and honeycomb

Duty team

• Cake
• Diana's Bread
• Lemonade

Afternoon cooking and duties

• Pulled jackfruit
• Blanched bean salad
• Mixed rice salad
• Ice cream
• Cleaning the kitchen
• Finish off dishes for the evening dinner party
• Vegan meringues
• Chocolate chip cookies
• 5.45 PM : Vegan wine tasting

Dinner party (7 PM)

• Humous
• Tomato bruschetta
• Melba toast
• Pesto
• Babaganoush
• Pulled jackfruit
• Mixed rice salad
• Blanched bean salad
• Vegan meringues
• Fruit salad
• Chocolate chip cookies

Friday

Morning demonstration

• Vegan scrambled egg
• Rosti
• Homemade baked beans
• Smokey tamari-maple tempeh
• Tomatoes
• Mushrooms
• Bircher

Lunch made by students (2.30 / 3 PM)

• Tofu katsu curry
• Thai sticky rice

Duty team

• Everyone helps clean kitchen

Afternoon

• Clear up and clean kitchen
• Test
• Round-up of the course
• Certificates awarded
• Finish around 4 / 4.30 PM

This cooking class will take place at The Avenue Cookery School, Wandsworth London, UK.

Alongside the 2-course lunch that you will have cooked during the course, you will be provided with breakfast from Monday to Friday and dinner from Monday to Thursday. The dinner will be food that you will have cooked that day. Since you are staying from Sunday night, you will need to eat before you arrive.

• 5-day intensive hands-on cooking programme
• Recipe booklet to take home
• An Avenue apron
• Tips for hosting
• The Vegan Cookery Course Avenue certificate upon completion
• All facilities, equipment, and ingredients are included
• Daily breakfast and dinner
• 5 nights accommodation

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.