Seafood Cooking Course in Italy: This is one of the our best cooking course

Mama Isa will teach the difference between farm raised and wild caught fish , focused on sustainability. Seafood and shellfish cookery lessons are suitable for all!!! You will learn practical instruction with a hands-on experience.

The class will focus on the cleaning, preparation, and cooking.

 

 

 

 

During the seafood cooking class we suggest a few things when purchasing fish at your local market:

• Use your senses: fresh fish or shelfish should have almost no bad odors or bad smell;

• Fish must be bright and very shiny;

• Flesh mus be translucent and not dry or dull;

• Fresh fishes should have clear eyes (not cludy eyes);

• When you can please ask to touch the fish, because the flesh must be firm and plump (not shaggy or mushy);

• Fresh fishes must have lively red gills (please not pale colour or brown colour).

 

It is important to us to offer high-quality products and seafood.

 

 

We use fresh fish with no preservatives or chemicals, and when we can, we prefer seafood that is caught, hunted or harvested in its natural environment (mostyly from Adriatic Sea or Tirrenean Sea).

About fresh clams or fresh mussels or fresh oysters or fresh sea scallops we prefer when these species have their seeds planted where the water salinity and pollution is monitored very wel, ensuring a higher quality and certification.

 

DESCRIPTION:

• Hands on seafood cooking class covers authentic, traditional Italian Regional recipes about fish, seafood, and shellfish, using fresh fish from the daily fish market;

• We have a few different options;

• We follow the Mediterranean and Italian Diet;

• A chef (speaking English fluently) and a sous-chef

• Recipes in English;

• Taught in English;

• Every class is fun and instructive;

.... and much more!

 

The seafood cooking classes are for cooks of all levels

The seafood cooking course is ideal for learning some of the most delicious and superb Italian Seafood recipes.

Fresh Clams, Squilla Mantis, Fresh Swordfish, Fresh Octopus, Reef Mullet, Cuttlefish for a marvellous "nero di seppia sauce", Sea Scallop in its shell, Orate Sea Bream, Fresh Branzino, Fresh Anchovies, Fresh Sardines.

 

We have more than five different seafood and fish cooking workshops - designed to teach you how to choose, clean, prepare and cook mouth-watering Italian seafood dishes!!! You will discover how to quickly peel a shrimp or to scale a branzino, thanks to tips & trucks from Chef Mama Isa.

Our Cooking Class is taught in English and can last between 2 hours and one day (or more days if you are interested).

 

Location: Veneto region - Venice area - Italy

 

 

SAMPLE OF RECIPES (A FEW AUTHENTIC DISHES THAT YOU CAN TASTE)

• Garlic, Parsley, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and Sea Scallops

• Spaghetti with white Clam sauce or red Clam sauce

• Potato and Octopus Salad

• Tuna Tartare

• Baby Octopus Moscardini cooked in a delicious tomato sauce

• the famous Venetian dish "Sarde in Saor"

• Calamari Fritti

• Stuffed Mussels Cozze Ripiene

• Stuffed Calamari

• Spaghetti alla Vongole

• Salmone in Crosta

• Seafood Salad

• Fried Sardines in Italian style

• Sarde Beccafico

• Risotto with Baby Shrimps

• Risotto with Mussel in Venetian style

• Fresh Fettuccini with Seafood Ragout

• Swordfish in "acquapazza"

• Squilla Mantis "alla buzara"

• Baccala Mantecato

• Spaghetti wit Tuna Sauce

• "Alici Marinate" Marinated Anchovies in White Vinegar"

• Orate baked in oven with Potato and Cherry Tomatoes

• "Impepata di Cozze" (with tomato, mussel, evoo, red chilli pepper, wine)

• We love Sea Scallops - a bivalve mollusk!
But at Mama Isa's Cooking School you can taste only live scallop. The curved orange coral is a real delicacy.
At our cooking school you will learn how to clean live sea scallops!

 

We will teach you how to categorize the fish in two big groups:

• The first one: wild fish. It means that fish is hunted and caught in its environment. But the fishing must be regulated to prevent overfishing, so we love the concept of "sustainability".

• The second one: farm-raised fish. It means "aquaculture" that fish has been brought in a controlled environment - of course fed, grown and sold. Here in Italy acquaculturists improved their practices, and the farmed fish is without antibiotics, or heavy dyes. All the farm raised fish is controlled, so the quality is much higher.

 

 

We will educate you and our customers to eat many sustainable fish varieties (higher in vitamins, proteins, minerals and super healthy omega-3s with low amounts of chemicals).

Overfish seafood, such as Tuna or Salmon or Swordfish contain PCBs, Mercury, or bad contaminants.

We promote to use locally-caught wild fish (as fresh sardines, fresh mackerels, fresh anchovies...). We love sustainable seafood - farmed or caught in ways that consider as well as the sustanance of fisheries - dependent communities, as well as the vitality of harvested species and the well-being of the seas.

 

Cookery classes are upon request and subject to availability.

 

 

 

 

How to get in touch with Mama Isa's Cooking School?

Whether you want to enquire about our cooking classes, have special dietary needs, want to organize something special or anything else, please just contact us and we will get back to you within 24 hours.

 

 

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We accept last minute requests.

 

 

When a booking is confirmed for one or two people or more people, it does not guarantee a private cooking class, only that you will have a guaranteed space in that cooking class.

If you are interested about a PRIVATE COOKING CLASS, please don't hesitate to email us and to ask this special and private option!

 

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