Course Description
Handling fresh fish requires confidence, knowledge and technique. In this course, River Cottage will give you all three of those things. Not only will you be left with the ability to prepare a delicious fish-based meal but also to shop for the freshest and most sustainably sourced fish you can find.
Beginning with fish preparation, Gelf Alderson will guide you the process of preparing a fish. Gutting, scaling and filleting are the fundamental skills that you will learn to apply, but you’ll also learn to practise them on oily, flat and round fish. By the end of the first lesson, you will have mastered all the knife skills needed to carefully and safely prepare most fish.
From here you will take an in-depth look at shellfish. Lesson two will ensure that you can crack, pick and cook an array of seafood, including crab, lobster, scallops and mussels.
You will also learn more about the different techniques of fish cookery like smoking, curing and ceviche style. Your tutor will produce a host of delicious recipes for you to make and share involving pan frying, baking, stewing, stocks and broths and as you would expect at River Cottage, we make use of every part of the fish from skeleton to skin.
Course outline
Prepping and Filleting
Tackling Shellfish
Smoking Fish
Inspired Dishes
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The Expert option
RecommendedDevelop your learning further with marked assignments and personal tuition from Gelf Alderson
- Start course whenever you like
- 4 weeks tutor access for personalised assignment feedback & coaching
- 4 assignments marked by Gelf Alderson
- Certificate of completion from Gelf Alderson
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- 4 lessons with expert videos & notes
- Group chat & direct message with tutor & classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
$299The Peer option
Discover the benefits of group learning in an online interactive classroom of no more than 20 people. Get the most from shared knowledge and community study
- Start course whenever you like
- Practise what you learn with your peers
- Online classroom with up to 20 classmates
- 4 lessons with expert videos & notes
- 4 course assignments
- Group chat & direct message classmates
- Lifetime access to videos, notes & classroom
$99
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