This week's Food TV picks

Our guide to what's on SBS this week. Maeve O'Meara learns the secrets to seasoning a wok, Rachel Khoo meets a passionate goat farmer and cheese maker in Provence, and Michel Roux Jr. searches for patisserie perfection. Meanwhile on Poh & Co., Poh prepares for a garden working bee by making a great, big batch of pork and cabbage dumplings.

Rachel Khoo and Erik the goat farmer and cheesemaker, Provence

Richard Hill © BBC 2014 Source: Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook

Missed last week's episode? Catch-up .

Monday 20 April


Episode 5 (Indian) airs at 6pm on SBS ONE

Indian-trained chef and restauranteur Ajoy Joshion on spicing things up"Let's go to the most important ingredient when it comes to Indian food, and that's the chilli. If you don't want the heat in the food, leave the chilli whole. You get the flavours. If you want the heat or the pungency, break the chilli so that you get the bite into the oil."

 from the episode.
Palak-Paneer
Palak paneer
Tuesday 21 April


Episode 6 (Greek) airs at 6pm on SBS ONE

Legendary chef Peter Conistis on the food of the (Greek) gods: "Greek food is humble, it's honest, it's generous. You grow up and there's a mother chasing you with a spoon and a plate of food all the time! But most of all, it is just so damn tasty."

 from the episode.
BBQ-Calamari
Barbecued calamari
Wednesday 22 April


Episode 7 (Chinese) airs at 6pm on SBS ONE

Sydney-based chef Frank Shek on how to season a wok: "Put it on a really high flame and you burn it and you'll start to see with the smoke that plasticky laqueur being burnt off and it'll start to change colour - that's just the metals changing. And then we wash it out with cold water, dry it, repeat that step two to three times. For the final stage, we use some salt. You put it back on the heat again and you just swirl the salt around. And what salt actually does, it just draws out any further impurities from the wok. Then a clean tow, dip it in some oil, just rub it around and that's your seasoned wok."

 from the episode.
Shanghai-style-stir-fry-egg
Shanghai-style stir-fried egg Source: SBS Food
Thursday 23 April


Episode 8 (Italian) airs at 6pm on SBS ONE

Hospitality consultant Sam Cosentino on kitchen all-star, extra virgin olive oil: "It plays many roles. It's for dipping bread, it's for drizzling on salads, it's for adding to your osso buco when it comes out of the oven, it's to cook with, of course. It's basically the wife of the relationship. The wife does everything, we know that, she's the boss!"

 from the episode.
Food Safari
Source: Food Safari
Episode 4 (Provence) airs at 7.30pm on SBS ONE

Rachel on Provencal fromage: "Because for seven to eight months of the year the goats are outside, they eat the wild herbs, like rosemarry, oregano, and the berries, so it adds all the different flavours to the cheese, which basically translates that it's delicious ."
Rachel Khoo and Erik the goat farmer and cheesemaker, Provence
Richard Hill © BBC 2014 Source: Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook
Episode 4 airs at 8pm on SBS ONE

Poh on her dumpling adoration: "I really, really love making dumplings. It’s the motion that you go through when you’re crimping, when you think it’s been done like this for hundreds of years. I think that’s such an amazing feeling."

 from this episode.
Chinese pork and cabbage dumplings
Source: Poh & Co.
Airs at 7.30pm on SBS ONE

Michel's dad, Albert Roux on working in the trade: "It is said that a good patissier will make a good chef, but a good chef will never make a good patissier. Pastry is not unlike a mystery. You have to be extremely precise. If you miss 20 grams, 50 grams of flour or sugar, you put it in the oven and disaster."

with Michel Roux Jr.
Michel Roux Jr.
Source: Bernard Zieja
Friday 24 April


In Search of Perfection

Episode 5 (Pizza) airs at 6pm on SBS ONE

Heston on doughs and don'ts: "The key thing here is to get the right level of gluten. The gluten is basically elasticity. You want the dough to be elastic enough to stretch, not too elastic to coil back again."

Get Heston Blumenthal recipes .
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Saturday 25 April


Heston's Feasts - series 2

Episode 1 (Chocolate feast) airs at 6.30pm on SBS 2

 

 


Watch the three-part series .

Rare breed pig farmer Jimmy Doherty goes inside Britain's biggest supermarket, Tesco, to come up with innovative ideas to produce equally cheap, but higher-welfare alternatives to their best-selling meat products.

 

 

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Published 17 April 2015 11:24am
Updated 20 April 2015 3:46pm
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