School nutrition operations are transforming. School nutrition standards require schools to offer more fruits, vegetables and whole grains and students demand tastier, fresher and more contemporary menu items. While this brings some challenges it also brings many opportunities to add new, exciting items to your menu. This class will focus on basic culinary skills needed to prepare and serve more fruits, vegetables, whole grains and salads while enhancing flavors and meeting the demands of today’s guests. These basic culinary skills will help schools offer foods and meals that support the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and school nutrition standards.
You will learn about:
- Culinary basics, mise en place, and knife skills
- Cooking vegetables for greater appeal
- Preparing great grains
- Building a better sandwich
- Success with salads and salad bars
- Behavioral economic techniques
- Farm-to-school
- Utilizing speed scratch
- Enhancing flavor in foods
- Food safety and sanitation with salads and salad bars
Sign up for this 5-day culinary skills workshop designed for school nutrition professionals offered in the summer of 2024 in 6 locations across Indiana. Classes meet 8am - 3pm Monday - Friday each week. Please plan on attending all 5 days of training.
June 3rd - 7th---------------------Evansville, IN
June 10th - 14th-----------------Columbus, IN
June 24th - 28th-----------------Fishers, IN
July 8th - 12th--------------------Merrillville, IN
July 15th - 19th------------------Elkhart, IN
July 22nd - 26th-----------------Plainfield, IN