Take home the secrets to authentic Thai cooking! Shankari will teach you how to build and balance flavor between sweet, sour, salty, and spicy as she guides you through a quintessential take-out favorite: Pad Thai. This dish is easy and approachable. It starts with fresh ingredients, including rice noodles, shrimp, tofu, cilantro, bean sprouts, peanuts, and scrambled eggs tossed in a delicious homemade sauce. You will also make a cooling Thai cucumber salad enjoying northern Thailand’s Thai street foods.
About the Instructor: Shankari Arcot was born and raised in India. She has fond memories of her mother making all of their food from scratch and when Shankari moved to the States, she continued to have a deep love for her mom’s cooking and became passionate about learning how to make the dishes she grew up eating so she could share them with friends and family. Shankari’s proudest moment was winning the Iron Chef competition at the California State Fair. For the past fifteen years, Shankari has been teaching classes in our learning center, as well as giving guest lectures to the culinary students at The American River College and teaching global cooking to homeschooling families.