SEC-S19 / W3 | Types of vegetable cuts most used in the kitchen.

It is another week of gastronomy engagement challenge and happy to take part in the teaching team which has unleashed this cooking skills in me.

I have learn a lot from this week course especially the different types of cutting which will help me perfect with garnishing of meals while using the different cutting techniques.

This week, after learning the different types of vegetable cuts, I decided to share my understanding on the course by answering the assessment questions for students as follows.

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Two cut from the week course

Stick cut; this is a cutting type that is done by slicing food items into small, rectangular sticks. It can be use for French fries, stir-fries, and veggie platters as garnish.

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It is easy to cut but very technical, you need to maintain a straight long cut to have the shape come out well.

From the image above I used to plantain to make french fries so I decided to give it a different cut and ofcourse a stick cut also known as the canes cut.

Brunoisse cut: The brunoise cut is the smallest form of the dice cut and is derived from the julienne cut, used for soups, stews, stocks, and garnishes.

To cut it properly, you need to start with a julienne cut item then cross-cut the julienne horizontally into cubed pieces as seen above.

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Other two cut of vegetable researched on my own

Rondelle; it is the cutting of food item into a round shape or oval shape.

This is achieved by washing your food item be it veggies fruits or anything that you want to cut into the shape clean, then place it on your chopping board, using your knife you cut it straight or on a bias depending on how spherical what you are cutting it

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Chiffonade; is a technique for cutting leafy greens and aromatic herbs into long, thin strips used for garnishing, topping, and creating artful salads. These leaf includes; spinach, basil, garbage, azuza, mint, lettuce etc.

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Use one or more of the cuts made for this course and use them in some preparation, share the images and details.

I used different cutting technique to cut veggies for breakfast. He used plantain, cabbage and onion going to perform this task.

First of all I cut my onion; I used two types of cutting technique to cut onion, rondelle and brunoisse cut

I also cut cabbage 🥬into a thin sting know as chiffonade.

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Then, I cut plantain into a stick cut with other shapes as well because it was for baby, so I made different types of cutting to attracts her.

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Then I fried egg using cabbage and onion.

First I place frying pan on the cooker
Added vegetable oil to it, Fried all the veggies, Add pepper, spices and seasoning to taste then cover the pot to simmer for some minutes.

After some 2 minutes, I added egg then cover the pot again and allow to simmer for 3 minutes I turned the egg and boom!! my fried egg was ready for breakfast.

It was really tasty and crunchy I tested some bread and it's went well with the bread so my family love it so much you can also give it a try you will like the recipe.

What I discovered from this recipe was that the rondelle onion was still very fresh and crunchy so I'll be using this technique to cut my onion.

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We want to know your opinion about this course, you can share it with us.

Sincerely I really appreciate this cause so much I never went to a catering school but then I like reading online to know the different recipes of food because I like my family to have a different tastes of meals. So will discuss the 3 weeks of course I've learnt so many things when it comes to cooking the different cutting techniques and the different cutting knives and different combination of spices to cook different meals.

I appreciate this course so much because I knew the different cutting techniques before now but I never knew their names. So now I'll be using those different terms at home while cooking, especially when I have someone that is assisting me in the kitchen. I will help the person learn these terminologies in cooking.

So thanks to this teaching tea, I'm looking forward to another wonderful course next week and many more.

I wish this course will continue on steemit even though the engagement challenge get to an end, I really wish it will continue.

I will like to invite @lovinah @dequeen and @abijacob to take part in this contest