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Indian Vegetarian - Beginners

Course code: IPKV106P

Subject area: Cookery

Study level: Part Time

Course level: U

Course details

Course time:

18:45 - 20:45

Days of week:

Thursday

Course date:

8th May 2025 - 10th Jul 2025

Course location:

Gosford Hill School

Contact details

Phone:

01235 555 585

Learn how to make home-cooked, nutritious and healthy traditional Indian vegetarian meals, all from scratch, using fresh ingredients and traditional Indian spices.
Home cooked Indian food is slow cooked, with layers of flavour; it’s not like the food made famous in Indian restaurants here in the UK. You’ll learn about the aromas and delicacy of key spices, and make amazing dishes that Indians eat every day at home!

Over the course you will develop your culinary skills, wowing your family and friends with the delights of a real-life Indian home kitchen. Classic Indian flavours are all about spice blends and this is where you’ll start. You’ll be introduced to a range of everyday spices, you’ll learn what and how to buy basic ingredients, and what to keep in your pantry. You’ll learn how to cook multiple dishes – from savoury classic snacks like samosas and pakoras, to specialist breads, to main dishes like lentils, beans and vegetable curries.

This fun, easy course needs your commitment to learn. You’ll have endless tips and hacks for replicating these traditional dishes for yourself at home. Your teacher has 60 years of home-cooking experience behind her, and more than 20 years of teaching in Oxfordshire. Her dedication to spreading Indian vegetarian food led her to start up her own food brand with her family of ‘Holy Cow’ curry sauces. • Please bring the following with you each week: • knife• container• tea towel • oven gloves• kitchen towel• Wok with a lid (the lid will only be needed for some dishes)• teaspoons• small container to take left over cooking oil home• tin opener.

For the first session you will also need to bring the following: • Gram flour (Besan) small pack• Salt• Chilli powder• Bi-carbonate of soda• Paprika• Coriander seeds• 1 onion• Spinach• Cooking oil for deep frying

Please note there will be no class on 29/05/2025.In order to avoid disappointment, it is advisable to enrol at least 2½ weeks prior to the course starting. We will confirm course information two w

What next?
Oxfordshire Adult Learning offer a wide-range of similar workshops and courses, please check our website for further information.
Entry criteria
Basic kitchen skills will be an advantage; knowing how to wash, chop and prepare basic dishes will help but are not essential.

Courses can fill fast, so please enrol early to avoid disappointment. Decisions on whether a course is to run are made two weeks prior to the start date - an email will be sent to you should there be changes to your course or if it is cancelled. Please check your inbox leading up to your course, including the junk folders. For anyone without an email account, our Admissions team will phone you instead.

For the first week of the course you will need to bring a valid form of identification; this includes passport, driving licence, debit/credit card, Birth Certificate or National Insurance card.

Please note - you should be 19 years old or over at 31st August 2024 prior to starting the course.

Fee information
You will need to bring your own ingredients each week. Ingredient costs £10 (approx.) for ingredients, per lesson.

Courses offered by the college are fully or partly funded by the Government and the published fee takes account of this funding.

Before starting a course, the College is required to check you meet conditions relating to that funding, e.g. age, residency status within the UK/EEA, prior qualification level and employment status. In some circumstances (such as with online enrolments), these checks can only be completed after you have enrolled and paid.

If you are unable to pay in full for this course at the time of enrolment, and the course tuition fee is £300 or more, an instalment plan is available. If this is your preference, please do not enrol online but rather call the Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to enrol.

Once enrolled, Admissions will take the first instalment payment from you and pass on your details to the Finance team who will email you to set-up your payment plan. Please return a fully completed instalment plan to Finance as failure to do so could result in being withdrawn from your course.

The rules on fee reduction are complicated, we would encourage you to talk to our Admissions Team on 01235 216400 to discuss these options. You can find more information on our Fees and Bursaries page - search "Fees and Bursaries" at the top of the page.

Course fees

19+ Fee:

Tuition Fee: £172.80

Exam Fee: £0.00

Total Cost: £172.80

19+ Reduced Fee:

Tuition Fee: £86.40

Exam Fee: £0.00

Total Cost: £86.40

Qualifications received
As this is a non-accredited course, there is no formal qualification. However, you will be asked to complete activities that demonstrate how you are progressing on your course.
Learning & method assessment
Your learning will be assessed individually over the term via the monitoring of cooking practices, tasting of your dishes and questions and answers. You will have to opportunity to watch demonstrations and be offered ongoing advice to help improve your skills.
To track your progress and achievement you will be required to complete a short document.