Kelis on Her #1 Cooking Tip: Why Every Chef Needs a Great Sauce

“Everything is literally better smothered, dipped, or poured.” — singer, songwriter, and chef Kelis. Join Kelis in the kitchen to learn how sauce tells the story of every dish and what core elements you need to make your sauce shine. Then, head to Kelis’s full Skillshare class The Creative Kitchen: Simple Sauces to Elevate Every Meal for hands-on tutorials and sauce recipes that tell your story. Get started: http://skl.sh/3dqWLyT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUICK JUMP MENU 00:00 Introduction 00:32 Understanding Sauce's Role in Your Dish 1:49 The Basic Elements of Every Great Sauce 3:17 Sauce Fundamentals Including Acid, Fat, and Salt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THE CLASS Gather your ingredients and head to the kitchen with singer, songwriter, and chef Kelis! Starting with the fundamentals of sauce and journeying through nostalgia-inducing flavors, Kelis invites you along on a delicious ride that ends with the most personal and expressive flavors: your own. Join now: http://skl.sh/3dqWLyT Together with Kelis, you’ll explore: Cooking from your story by identifying personal flavor highlights from your past Demystifying your kitchen cupboards and learning the purpose of all those ingredients Developing a sauce to enhance any dish or occasion Whether you’re an aspiring saucier or just want to step up your personal sauce game, this incredibly fun and easy-to-follow class will inspire you to explore, define, and savor your personal flavors. Now go make that sauce! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT SKILLSHARE Skillshare is an online education platform with thousands of classes taught by the world’s best practitioners. Come take a class on illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, crafts, and more. To get started, sign up for a free trial here: https://www.skillshare.com/signup Subscribe to Skillshare on Youtube: http://skl.sh/yt-subscribe Skillshare on Instagram:   / skillshare   Skillshare on Facebook:   / skillshare   Skillshare on Twitter:   / skillshare   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT SINGER, SONGWRITER, CHEF KELIS Kelis is an American singer, songwriter, and chef who believes everything is better smothered and dipped in sauce. She has released six studio albums and studied as a saucier at the world-famous Le Cordon Bleu. Kelis has been recognized at the Brit Awards, Q Awards, NME Awards, and Grammy Awards ceremonies. Her musical output, both as a lead and featured artist, encompasses various genres—she has collaborated with R&B and hip hop acts including Busta Rhymes and Clipse, electronic and dance producers such as Calvin Harris, Timo Maas, and Richard X, pop and rock acts Enrique Iglesias and No Doubt and indie and alternative musicians including Björk and Dave Sitek. She has sold six million records worldwide. Kelis' first cookbook, My Life on a Plate, was released on September 28, 2015; Kelis describes it as "an exploration of tastes and cultures, and my experience as a chef, musician, mother, and wife". She is also the creator of a line of Bounty and Full, a line of sauces made with love and integrity. Since January 2020, Kelis has been living on a working farm outside Los Angeles that she manages with her husband, when not performing around the world. Follow Kelis’s teacher profile on Skillshare: https://skl.sh/3brJbJg ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MORE RECIPES Are you getting hungry? Head to 7 Easy Salad Dressing Recipes on the Skillshare blog to learn how to take your salad from boring to brilliant — all using ingredients found in your pantry: http://skl.sh/3pF5m3n