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Thursday, 13 September 2018

Hospo 2018- Steaming

Steaming method: 

Dumplings- Low pressure
Vegetable Soup- High pressure
Fish- Low pressure
Prawns- Low 

Quality checks:
Dumplings- Check that the cabbage and ginger was the correct colour and had no blemishes. 
Vegetable Soup- We checked that they were the correct colour, there was no blemishes. 
Fish- Made sure the fish had a pleasant smell, it wasn't a strong smell. 
Prawns- Made sure the prawns didn't have a strong smell to it and that the eyes are not sunken. As this indicates they ain't fresh. 

Quantity- 
Dumplings- 6 per person 
Vegetable Soup- 1 cup- 2 pieces of garlic bread
Fish- 200g
Prawns- 8 per person

Preparation- 
Dumplings- Washed and finely chopped cabbage, and ginger was peeled and grated. 
No dumpling wrappers were ripped


Vegetable Soup-  We wash the vegetables to remove the dirt and bacteria from it., peeled and cut kumara, carrots, potatoes, pumpkin and onions into small cubes, to help speed up the cooking process.














Fish- Made sure there was no bones in the fish, wrapped it in baking paper with slices of lemon with salt and pepper.













Prawns- Removed head and peeled shell off prawns and washed them under water














Cooking process:
Dumplings- The dumplings were cooked fr about 6-10 minutes. When the dumplings were cooked, the dumping wrappers were see-through. 
Vegetable Soup- The soup was cooked for 15 minutes in the pressure cooker
Fish- We cooked the fish for about 5 minutes until the appearance of the fish was white throughout the whole of it
Prawns- The prawns were cooked for about 5 minutes, until they were a bright orange colour. Wanted to make sure they didn't go rubbery. 

Presentation:
Vegetable Soup 



Accompaniments- Garlic Bread






Fish


Accompaniments- Beans and carrots







Dumplings
 -Sauces: Soy sauce

- Four prawns placed onto of the cous cous salad
accompaniments- Cous cous salad
Sauce- Dressing








Recipes
Vegetable Soup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PK784dwlFs













Prawns
fish