GUT HEALING JAPANESE COOKING COURSE - INTENSIVE

Japanese Superfoods Weekend Workshop: Healthy Gut + Superfoods as Medicine

Did you know Japanese superfoods were used as medicine in ancient times? In this fun, hands-on two-day workshop, you’ll learn the fundamentals of healthy, easy Japanese cooking while gaining practical skills and knowledge. Book both classes together and save $35. This intensive combines the Healthy Gut with Japanese Superfoods and Japanese Superfoods as Medicine cooking classes.

You’ll follow detailed demonstrations of traditional methods by Chef Yoshiko Takeuchi, then practise them yourself.

This Workshop Is Perfect For You If You Want To:

• Support your body naturally

• Boost your immune system

• Support a healthy heart (including cholesterol and blood pressure)

• Build a strong gut

• Detoxify and cleanse your body (and mind)

• Increase your energy and improve your overall health

Japanese Superfoods as Medicine: Menu Examples

• Easy, tasty kuzu apple “flu medicine” made two ways, using juice or fresh apple

• Umeboshi concoction to soothe flu, indigestion and stomach upset

• Detox and healing soup made with Japanese dashi, daikon, kuzu, shiitake and ginger

• Cauliflower and shiitake fried rice made two ways: in a wok and in the oven

• Amazake pudding with raw kiwi sauce, a nutritious, healing sweet for when you’re unwell or to support your gut health

Healthy Gut with Japanese Superfoods: Menu Examples

• Easy fermented rice salt (salt koji), ready to prepare in just 5 minutes

• Salt koji pickled daikon

• Daikon salad with salt koji yuzu dressing

• Konnyaku and steamed vegetables with sweet amazake miso sauce

• Grilled daikon with yuzu miso

• Arame pesto spaghetti

• Strawberry kuzu pudding

What You’ll Get

• Hands-on cooking class using authentic, high-quality Japanese ingredients

• Full sit-down lunch with drinks (organic ceremonial grade matcha) each day

• Digital recipes to take home

Knowledge Required
None. Beginners are welcome.

What to Bring
Closed-toe shoes and an apron (you can rent one for $8). Everything else is provided.
Please bring cash to avoid a surcharge on ingredients sold at the class.

Add-on
Apron rental ($8), optional when you book.

Session Details
This class series runs over 2 consecutive days.

Your Teacher
Chef Yoshiko Takeuchi is the author of three cookbooks and has nearly 30 years of teaching experience. She specialises in healthy Japanese cooking, has worked in some of Sydney’s top kitchens, and has appeared on SBS and Channel 10.

Good to Know

• All of Yoshiko’s classes (except the Japanese Cooking Class (Advanced)) are suitable for vegans and are MSG-free.

• Menu is subject to change.

• Bookings can be transferred to another available class with more than 30 days’ notice.

• If you can’t make it, you’re welcome to send someone in your place.

• Cancellations are not refundable.

• Booking is essential and subject to availability.

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