Pesto sauce is one of the famous Italian style sauce from the northern Italy. It is originally consists only Italian sweet basil, olive oil, pine nuts and Parmesan cheese blended together. This sauce is known in Italy as Pesto alla Genovese.
The name originally comes from the word
“pesta” which means to pound or to crush as this sauce is prepared by
grounding the ingredients to release the flavour of the sweet basil using
mortar and pestle.
The pesto sauce has many variations
throughout the country. In general the color expected is green while in some
regions there are some red pesto as well where the main ingredients is red
paprika or sun dried tomatoes.
The pesto sauce is well known to be used as
pasta sauce. However, in the classic and modern culinary world it is also used
as spread, dips, dressing and even sauce for steak, fish and poultry dishes.
This is one of the famous potato side dish originating from southern germany. This dish is known in local language as “kartoffelsalat” The northern germany also has a variation of this dish which is almost similar to american style potato salad.
The main difference between german and american style potato salad lies in the dressing, where in the german version the dressing is made from the bacon drippings and apple cider vinegar while the american version is largely mayonnaise based.
One of the interesting points of german potato salad is that im can be consumed either hot, warm, room temperature or even cold.
This dish is easy to made and also keep very well in the chiller. This dish is very versatile and usually paired with german staples such as bratwurst (pork sausages), wiener schnitzel(breaded pork), or roast chicken. The acidic nature of the potato salad goes very well with rich and fatty main courses.
OTTIMMO – On Monday (10/2), OTTIMMO International welcomed a special guest, students of Politeknik Jember. As many as 98 students from the Food Technology study program made observations on food and beverage at the OTTIMMO campus.
At the campus in the Citraland area, Surabaya, they had the opportunity to see firsthand culinary arts kitchen, baking pastry arts kitchen, as well as Le Galeria café. In culinary arts kitchen, Politeknik Jember students can watch cooking demonstrations by Chef Arya Sunjaya related to processing Basmati Rice and pinach Pesto.
Culinary Arts
While in the baking pastry arts kitchen, they
witnessed how OTTIMMO students made Croissants. On the second floor kitchen,
also provided examples of pastry products that can be enjoyed by visiting
students.
Baking & Pastry
While at the Le Galeria café, OTTIMMO baristas showed how to be creative in making coffee, cappuccino, and other beverage products. Guests are free to ask all matters relating to food and beverage products, even everything about the OTTIMMO campus.
Le Galeria Cafe – Making Coffee
Politeknik Jember Representative, Fatoni, said that his party was very happy to witness firsthand the manufacture of food and beverages at OTTIMMO. He really hoped that the students could bring a lot of knowledge from the visit to Surabaya.
“This is our second visit and we are happy to be
able to get knowledge about food and drinks, as well as managing culinary
schools at OTTIMMO. Hopefully the students will get good knowledge and ideas
from this visit, “Fatoni explained.
Meanwhile, OTTIMMO Director Zaldy Iskandar said that his party was always open to welcoming visits from other campuses. According to him, Polytechnic Jember is special because it schedules an annual visit to OTTIMMO. “We proudly welcome the visit of the Jember Polytechnic. Hopefully get a lot of input from this visit, “said Chef Zaldy.*
