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Garnish and present your food like a pro.

Transform your dishes from ordinary to extraordinary. Discover how to enhance the flavour, aroma, and texture of your dishes with simple yet effective garnishing and plating techniques.

14+
Lessons
4 hrs
Total
Beginner
Level
365
Days access
Chef Sanjeev Kapoor — Garnishing and Plating Course
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The Philosophy

Eat with the eyes first.

No matter what kind of food or drink you're preparing, it helps to know how to make your plate look like an art. Plating is the key to pulling all five senses into the fine dining experience. How you select to present food to your guests is a form of art — a story for your families, guests or customers to read first with their eyes, and then savor with their mouths later.

Improving the presentation style of any dish adds surplus-value to the dining experience, and offers room for a higher mark-up on your food menu.

Why It Matters

Why food plating & presentation?

Upscale food
Enhance dining experience
Build reputation
Encourage creativity
Increase profits
Effective marketing
Increase appetite

Use your plate as your canvas. Make your food presentation enhanced in appearance and flavors.

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What You'll Learn

Here's what you'll learn.

Conceptualizing plating as an art form. The course aims to invoke the artist in you. Teaches you how the plate is your canvas, and the food your medium of expression. The lessons learnt here can be taught to your staff members, teammates, youngsters and beginners at home.

You'll be learning to master the following plating techniques to boost your creativity:

01 · Composition

Plate Presentation Fundamentals

Access to the strong and consistent themes running through your plating style. Garnishing or varieties of sauces to teach you to emphasize your ingredients and themes.

02 · Tools

Food Plating Tools Insights

Right from everyday utensils, spoons, cookie cutters to egg rings and zesters — the secret to plating success lies with the various such tools that enable home cooks and chefs to unleash their creative vision to craft various textures on the plate and create a 'wow' impact on the audience.

03 · Balance

Texture, Colour & Height

Tips for combining all three will help you draw attention and satisfy the palate. The course aims to teach you to balance the above 3 ingredients.

04 · Social

Instagram Ready Culinary Content

To potently satisfy the food blogger in you and help you wow your audience on the social platforms. More appetizing your dishes look, expect a hike in your like, share, comments and increase in the fanfare.

05 · Credential

Course Completion Certificate

That helps you take your culinary skills to the next level. This skill of course is a time-tested method to upscale the food ingredients and place a justifiable price tag on your menu.

Bonus

Simple Yet Heart-winning Table Setups

Small businesses to hosts and hostesses of cozy gatherings will get to learn to win hearts by simple, yet handy and professionally laid out table settings as demonstrated in the course.

Most importantly, diners get to enjoy a better dining experience while they relish a stunning plateful of food that appeals to their visual tastes and blends well with their palette as well.

Exclusive Video Lessons
365 Days Access
Easy to Learn Plating Techniques
Tasty Garnishings
Notes & Assignments
Learn on Mobile, Laptop or Desktop
Chef Sanjeev Kapoor presenting plated dish
Who It's For

Who this course is for?

Whether you own a small dining establishment, an eclectic cafe, a catering business, or even simply at home, the aesthetically done plating will attract the right attention and earn you brownies and benefits of perks. Even before people sample your meal, your guests will get to eat with their eyes.

The artfully plated version tastes incredibly better.

Trained in the awareness of these basic food presentation techniques, presentation styles, tricks and tools you can enhance and recreate your plating experiences and increase your menu prices without deterring your audience.

This course is most recommended and designed for home chefs and cooks, dietitians, food service professionals, housewives and culinary art instructors so they may be more artistic with their work and be admired and sought after for their presentation.

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Syllabus

Course curriculum.

9 sections · Self-paced
01
Section 1 — How to Garnish Snacks and Starters?
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·Snacks & Starters
02
Section 2 — How to Garnish Main Courses?
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·A. Dals
·B. Sabzis (Veggies)
·C. Rice
03
Section 3 — How to Garnish Indian Desserts?
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·Indian Desserts
04
Section 4 — Basic, Festive & Contemporary Table Settings
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·1.1 Barbeque Set Up
·1.2 Contemporary Set Up
·1.3 Christmas / New Year's Set Up
·1.4 Valentine's Day / Candlelight Date Set Up
·1.5 Baby Shower / Bachelorette Set Up
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Section 5 — Bonus Videos
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·5 Exciting Ways to Plate Rice
·5 Stylish Seafood Plating
·5 Contemporary Ways to Plate Chicken
·5 Artistic Ways to Dress Up Mousse
·5 Cool Cup Cake Plating Techniques
·5 Creative Ways To Plate Tikki
·Table Top 1: Elegant Set Up
·Table Top 2: Festive Set Up
·Table Top 3: Simple Set Up
·Table Top 4: Theme Based Set Up
·Table Top 5: Buffet Set Up
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Bonus Content
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·Your Personal Beat the Heat Food Checklist
07
Email Content
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Bonus
Bonus Course: All About US Cranberries
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·A sweet message from the Masterchef
·Apple Cranberry Jam
·Berry Pulao
·Chivda
·Coconut Cranberry Burfi
·Cranberry and Orange Cheese Cake
·Cranberry and Walnut Lemon Rice
·Cranberry Cream Cheese Bars
·Cranberry Jam Mutton Burgers
·Cranberry Pani Puri
·Cranberry Pistachio Fudge
·Cranberry Shikanji
·Cranberry Shrikhand Trifle
·Cranberry Walnut Cookies
·Eggless White Chocolate Cookies
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Thank You
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·Thank You For Purchasing The Garnishing Course
The Certificate

Get certified by Sanjeev Kapoor Academy.

You will get a course completion certificate personally signed by Chef Sanjeev Kapoor once you complete the course and the assignment.

Sanjeev Kapoor Academy Certificate Sample 1
Sanjeev Kapoor Academy Certificate Sample 2
Plating in action
Beautifully plated dish — course preview
A Glimpse Inside

What's going on in the classes — here's a glimpse.

·Principles of Artistic Composition
·Taking your cooking skills to the next level (How & Why?)
·Insight into Instagram Trending Plating Styles
·Tools and Tips (Plating, Garnishing, Combined)
·Exclusive videos — Contemporary 5 — Rice Plating, Sea Food, Chicken, Mousse, Cup Cake, Appetising Tikki Plating Styles
·Dos & Don'ts of Art of Plating
·How to Sauce and Plate?
·Dos & Don'ts Ingredients of Garnishes
·Exclusive Videos — Indian Garnishes & Seasonings — Dals, Rice, Desserts, Sabzis & Starters
·Master Checklist for Plating
·Tips for Experimenting with Color, Texture, Heights
·Ambience & Aesthetics (Bonus Part of the Course) Presentation Styles
How It Works

How does this work?

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Watch exclusive video lessons

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Wake up your creative instincts and learn the basics of plating

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Follow the steps to plate like a chef

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Get your course completion certificate and start creating magical experiences

Chef Sanjeev Kapoor
Style, Simplicity & Beauty

From the house of Masterchef Sanjeev Kapoor.

With a fan base ranging from the age group of 6–80 including men, women, children, soon-to-be-married girls, housewives, professionals, mothers, mothers-in-law and grandmothers, Sanjeev Kapoor is very close to its people's hearts.

He is the go-to chef for everything — party at home, what-to-make-today situation, so much paneer what to do? One-stop solution — log on to the internet or his channel and cook up Sanjeev Kapoor's recipes.

An eminent part of Reader's Digest list of 100 of India's Most Trusted people along with the most trusted chef for billions of Indians out there, Chef extraordinaire Sanjeev Kapoor's name tops the list. His easy demeanour, cheerful commentary and simple instructions make the most seemingly difficult dishes look easy to prepare.

Having been awarded the prestigious Padma Shri Award 2017, along with a national award of Best Chef of India, his popularity and contribution to Indian cuisine have been recognized by the Government of India too.

He is also on the panel of the Ministry of Tourism and on the board of Singapore Airlines International Culinary Panel along with the brightest names from the culinary world across the global culinary capitals. He divides his time in India and abroad by doing live food events and cooking demonstrations for which he is always in great demand.

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Common Questions

Frequently asked questions.

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1. How does this course work? +
Easy-to-follow videos will be made available for watching. You can immediately start applying your practical knowledge by going through them.
2. Who is this course for? +
Most recommended and designed for home chefs and cooks, dietitians, food service professionals, housewives, food bloggers and culinary art instructors so they may be more artistic with their work and be admired and sought after for their presentation.
3. How long is the course accessible for? +
All courses in the academy are available with 365 days' course access for learners. You are welcome to watch the videos as many times as you like to master the art of plating.
4. What would I learn in this course? +

You'll be learning to master the following plating techniques to boost your creativity:

Plate Presentation Fundamentals — strong and consistent themes through garnishing and varieties of sauces.

Food Plating Tools Insights — utensils, spoons, cookie cutters, egg rings and zesters.

Tips for combining Texture, Color & Height to draw attention and satisfy the palate.

Instagram Ready Culinary Content for the food blogger in you.

Course Completion Certificate personally signed by Chef Sanjeev Kapoor.

Bonus Videos · Simple Yet Heart-winning Table Setups.

And more.

5. Do I need to start at a specific date? +
You can start anytime you want and with access to the course for 365 days from the date of course purchase, you can take all the time you need, watch the videos again and again as much as you like.
6. What if I am unhappy with the course? +

We have crafted our courses with much thought and care so that you can discover the joy of cooking. If you're unsatisfied with your purchase, please raise a refund request within 48 hours of enrolling and get 100% of your money back as long as:

· Less than 25% of the course content has been viewed

· Not attempted the program assessments

· Haven't downloaded the course completion certificate

We will be happy to refund 100% of the purchase price after ensuring these conditions have been met.

7. Does this course come with a certification? +
Yes, all enrolled learners get a course completion certificate upon successful completion of the course.
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