Goa, India - Rita's Gourmet

We went to another cooking class and this time we did with Rita's Gourmet.

We started off by eating breakfast and we had a very traditional Indian breakfast. Here are all the things we had: Naan bread, cauliflower and carrots , curry with potatoes, coconut chutney, coconut with roasted red pepper, mint chutney, Indian pizza's (which were the naan dough but with sliced tomato's and white cheddar cheese), curry soup, watermelon, chickoo (which is a persimmon texture but it tasted like caramel), banana, custard apple and oranges.



We had dessert for breakfast so I tried all four but my favorite was the bolinhas which is like a coconut macaroon and, dodol is like chocolate jello with a cashew nut on top, my mom's favorite was bebinca which is like a bunch of jelly layers and it looked like a cake, last but not least a sticky rice pattie.

Then we drove to the beach and I took a jump shot photograph and we saw this really cool boat that was made out of all wood. After we left the beach we were driving to the market and on the way we saw the Goa international airport and it was huge.




We then got to the market and there was lots of saris which are Indian dresses. We also went to the food part and there was this stall that had this interesting color of juice that people were drinking and it was sugar cane juice and man was it yummy!






We also got to see dried fish and unfortunately smell it. But the reason they have dried fish is because 3 months out of the year the tide gets high and the fishermen can not fish so they eat dried fish. There was also a lot of fresh fish too because it was not high tide season yet.





I got to hold a live crab that was the first time and not the last time and it was really cool there were also these two adorable cats that were sleeping. Then we went to Rita's house had coconut juice yum.





Now lets start cooking! We started off by making a coconut pie with nuts, dried fruit and of course coconut. Then we put the pies in the oven and we started making chicken with a mild green sauce and made the green sauce with parsley, lemon, ginger etc and let it marinate in the chicken.

It's chicken puff and prawn puff time! We started by making the dough which she said was like éclair dough and then put it in a moist towel now it is time to make the white sauce. First we put the onions in and then the tomatoes sauteed them for a couple of minutes. Then we started the white sauce while the chicken was still marinating and mixed the onions and tomatoes with the white sauce and the chicken. We then rolled out the dough and cut it into 4 circles and filled the dough with the white sauce, onions and tomatoes. After filling them we did an egg wash with bread crumbs and we pan fried them and then we ate them and they were so yummy!

That was one cooking class to remember.