Seared Meats and Pan Sauces - 1/09/2025

The Culinary Center of Kansas City
7920 Santa Fe Drive, Overland Park, KS 66204

Adult Hands On Tastings

Seared Meats and Pan Sauces
Hands-On | Full Meal
Thursday 01/09/2025
6:00pm - 8:30pm
$125/person
Executive Chef Richard McPeake
Adults 18+

Menu
Pork Scaloppini with Fresh Portabella Marsala Wine Sauce
Paillard of Turkey with Pan Smitane Sauce
Seared Beef Tips with Balsamic Red Wine Butter Glaze
Aromatic Citrus Herb Butter Sauce

Class Description
Tonight you’ll learn how to execute amazing seared meats and sauces, a crucial element of great cooking. Your guide is longtime instructor Chef Richard McPeake. Chef Richard is the Retired Lead Chef Instructor of Kansas City Kansas Community College Culinary Center Chef Instructor for 20 years and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. He has won countless awards throughout his career including 14 Travel Holiday Awards and 2 Four Diamond Awards for Food Excellence.

As soon as meat hits a scorching hot pan, the surface instantly begins to caramelize. When we use this meat in a stew, braise or roast, it releases a complex savory flavor profile – umami – that is the basis for truly delicious cooked meats and broths. Together, we will learn about small (or contemporary) sauces, pooling sauce, nappe sauce that perfectly coats your food, how to deglaze a pan using Marsala wine and stock, how to reduce a sauce, and what an acid emulsification is. We will then test our skills as we create and eat Pork Scaloppini with Fresh Portabella Marsala Wine Sauce, Paillard of Turkey with Pan Smitane Sauce, Seared Beef Tips with Balsamic Red Wine Butter Glaze, and an Aromatic Citrus Herb Butter Sauce for vegetables. You will walk out of Chef Richard’s class with the skills to sear meat and create delicious sauces in your own kitchen.

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Subtotal: $125.00
Taxes & Fees Tax (9.35%) $11.69: +$11.69
Order Total: $136.69