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CARTS School of Culinary
Arts – Central America and
its students recently put
together a festive holiday
menu of dishes they felt
would appeal readers at Luxe Beat
Magazine. The dishes they have
presented are labor intensive and
they have included recipes for the
Beef Wellington and the Strawberry
Swiss Roll.
Instead if focusing on the recipes
(even though they are wonderful),
this article is showing you one of
the processes of how our culinary
students learn at SCARTS. We
decided to do this, as we have
had some inquiries as to how we
go about teaching some of the
aspects we cover.
The students had great fun
preparing the meal all together.
They had the challenge of coming
up with a dinner that would have
some aspects that would appeal
to everyone and be extra special.
After looking through many of their
cookbooks, the students decided to
use Le Cordon Bleu recipes with the
help of the famous “Cooking
Techniques” cookbook.
As is standard, the recipes they
picked were demonstrated, followed
by their doing individual practice of
the same dish.
worldwide and their employment
after internships and certification
confirms their success.
We hope you enjoy the menu they have
prepared for a fancy holiday dinner.
Beef Wellington
This worldwide popular dish
has been created in honor of
Wellington who won Waterloo
fight against Napoleon. The
classical recipe includes puff
pastry, beef, mushrooms, bacon
and herbs. I propose you a French
version, with brioche dough,
easier to prepare, and delicious
portobello mushrooms.
Serves 10
1lb portobello
1ssp vegetable oil
2 shallots
2 cloves garlic
1ssp butter
1 bunch parsley
Brioche dough
250g soft flour
10g fresh yeast
1ssp water
5g salt
10g sugar
3 eggs
100g butter
Meat
4lbs beef tenderloin
1ssp vegetable oil
1ssp butter
Prepare the dough
Mix yeast and water, add flour
and eggs, finish with salt and
sugar. Work the dough 5 minutes,
then add the soft butter. Rest
the dough at room temperature
for 30mins.
Mushrooms
Prepare the meat
The menu students chose to prepare
the following dishes:
Rock Lobster
Christmas Apple salad
Beef Wellington
Decorative Christmas Cake
Strawberry Swiss Roll
SCARTS offer diplomas in Culinary
Arts and Restaurant Management.
SCARTS focuses’ are lots of practice
and little theory. Theory matters,
but without practice, is difficult
to implement.
Most SCARTS classes are
demonstrations and Master classes,
which are then f