COOKERY Recreational

Newry East Campus

Overview

Reactional Cookery is a practical, beginner-friendly course designed to help participants feel confident in the kitchen without depending strictly on recipes. This course focuses on building core cooking skills and teaching learners how to adapt when ingredients change, something goes wrong, or they want to try something new.

Learners will learn how to understand basic cooking methods, recognise flavours, and make simple adjustments while cooking. The goal is to help learners feel comfortable making everyday meals using what they have available.

There are no formal entry requirements for this course.

Key topics include:

Basic knife skills and kitchen safety
Understanding common cooking methods (boiling, sautéing, roasting, baking)
Measuring and following simple recipes
Recognising basic flavours (sweet, salty, sour, bitter)
Simple ingredient substitutions (e.g., swapping vegetables or proteins)
Cooking with cupboard staples
How to fix common cooking mistakes (over-salted, undercooked, etc.)

There are no formal assessments on this course.

Southern Regional College offers many other recreational cookery and bakery courses which students may be interested in.

Faculty of Professional Services

FacultyPRSE@src.ac.uk 028 3025 9683

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