Oriental Cooking
Overview
The Oriental Cooking course at CIS College takes you through the techniques and flavors of Lebanese and Eastern cuisine over 24 hours of guided and hands-on instruction. You will begin with kitchen safety and knife skills, then move into Lebanese salads, cold and hot mezze, classic Eastern main dishes, and traditional Lebanese breakfast and savory pastries.
The course runs in a hybrid format, combining classroom sessions with practical cooking sessions at CIS branches across Lebanon, so you practice the dishes you learn under guidance.
What You Will Learn
- Kitchen hygiene, food safety, and safe knife handling
- Preparing Lebanese salads such as tabbouleh and fattoush
- Making cold mezze such as moutabbal, hummus, and warak enab b zeit
- Preparing hot mezze such as batata harra and sojok
- Cooking Eastern main dishes such as moughrabieh, kabse, kibbe, and warak enab
- Preparing traditional Lebanese breakfast dishes such as fatteh and foul medames
- Making savory Eastern pastries such as fatayer and sambousek
Course Curriculum
| Module | What you cover |
|---|---|
| Hygiene and Food Safety Foundations | Kitchen hygiene, sanitation, cross contamination, and food safety standards |
| Knife Skills and Ingredient Preparation | Knife handling, cutting techniques, and preparation of vegetables and meats |
| Lebanese Salads | Tabbouleh, fattoush, and rocca salad |
| Cold Mezze | Moutabbal, hummus, baleela, and warak enab b zeit |
| Hot Mezze | Batata harra, sojok, wings provincial, and sausages with pomegranate sauce |
| Eastern Main Dishes I | Moughrabieh, kabse, and mloukhiye |
| Eastern Main Dishes II | Kibbe, warak enab w koussa, and sayadiyeh |
| Lebanese Breakfast and Savory Pastries | Knafeh, fatteh, foul medames, hummus balila, fatayer, sambousek, and pizza |
Who This Course Is For
- Anyone who wants to learn traditional Lebanese and Eastern cooking
- Home cooks looking to master mezze and Eastern main dishes
- People considering a career in professional cooking
Certification
Graduates who successfully complete the course receive a certificate recognized by the Directorate General of Technical and Vocational Education (DGVTE).
Target audiences
- Anyone who wants to learn traditional Lebanese and Eastern cooking
- Home cooks looking to master mezze and Eastern main dishes
- People considering a career in professional cooking
Requirements
- No prior cooking experience required
- Comfortable standing and working in a kitchen environment
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