Indian Food Presentation – Re-designed Appam and Lamb Curry Plating
Have You Wondered How to Create Picture-Perfect Indian Food?
You don’t have to use molecular or chemical techniques to create a modern food presentation. Our Indian food has a wide range of colours, textures and flavours. If you arrange it skilfully, you can achieve a presentation as impressive as any cuisine in the world.Few cuisines offer such a wide range of colours, spices, textures and ingredients to work with. With some simple food styling techniques, traditional dishes can be presented in a completely different way.
Here in this video, we show you some techniques for making vegetable crisps or wafers using stock syrup and slow baking at a temperature of 85°C for 45 minutes, or until crisp.
We also make puréed emulsions with butter to give sautéed vegetables a smooth finish, instead of serving them as they are.
Modern Indian Cuisine – Appam and Lamb Curry
We use appam, a traditional breakfast dish made with fermented rice batter and cooked like a pancake.There is also a variation called egg appam in Kerala, where a fresh egg is dropped into the centre while the appam is cooking. We keep the same concept but serve the fried egg separately.
Slow-Braised Lamb Curry with Appam
Appam is well accompanied by lamb curry. Here, we use slow-braised lamb belly cooked in the traditional Indian way for eight hours at a temperature of 60°C, resulting in a butter-like texture of lamb.
The combination of appam, spiced lamb curry, carrot and cumin purée, fried egg and vegetable crisps brings together traditional Indian flavours with modern Indian cuisine presentation.
Indian Food Styling – Creating a Three-Dimensional Plate
Fine Dining Plating Ideas Using a Photo Frame
Plating: We selected a photo frame to present the food, giving a three-dimensional effect to the presentation.
This approach to Indian food styling allows us to arrange the different elements of the dish within a picture frame, creating a visual effect rather than using a conventional plate.
Learn Fine Dining Presentation – Indian Food on a Photo Frame
From this video, you can learn the techniques of modern restaurant kitchen food plating.We take appam from Kerala, lamb curry, onion crisp, carrot crisp, carrot purée with Indian flavours and a fried egg to finish.We use a photo frame to present the food and give it a 3D appeal.
These simple fine dining plating ideas show how traditional dishes can be re-designed through thoughtful arrangement, colours and textures without changing their original flavours.