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Diplôme de

Le Cordon Bleu’s highly-acclaimed Diplôme de Cuisine program is designed to help you master the necessary skills to create fine cuisine dishes through a combination of practical sessions, demonstrations and theory lessons. Students will learn all of the professional techniques required to progress with a range of exciting career opportunities, and will be taught by our team of classically trained teaching chefs, all of whom have experience working in senior positions in the world’s finest kitchens and Michelin starred restaurants.

Students who complete the Basic, Intermediate and Superior Cuisine levels, each of which lasts for 6 hours a day, 3 days a week, and 180 hours in total, are awarded "Diplôme de Cuisine".

Basic Cuisine

  1. Demonstrate the fundamental basic cuisine preparations and cooking techniques including:
    • Knife skills
    • Basic classical vegetable cuts
    • Basic stocks and derivatives
    • Elementary sauces and emulsions
    • Fish filleting skills
    • Elementary butchery skills
    • Basic dough e.g. pasta, puff pastry
    • Introduction to plating presentation
    • Basic plated desserts for restaurants
    • Fundamental methods of cooking e.g. braising, pan-frying, deep-frying, roasting, and steaming
  2. Identify the basic French culinary terms
  3. Follow health and safety regulations
  4. Develop personal kitchen organization and management skills

Intermediate Cuisine

  1. Implement all the basic techniques learned and successfully apply them to fundamental European regional cuisine and culinary techniques including:
    • Developing specific knife skills
    • Participating in large canapés team production
    • Compiling classic and modern plating presentation
    • Sweet and savoury hot soufflé
    • Developing sauce knowledge
    • Practising cooking methods with local recipes
  2. Build on their existing French culinary terminology,
  3. Follow health, safety and hygiene regulations
  4. Extrapolate personal kitchen organization and management skills

Superior Cuisine

  1. Demonstrate a wide range of fundamental classical and contemporary cuisine techniques Including:
    • Extending cooking techniques
    • Advanced butchery and fish filleting skills
    • Specific preparation and cooking skills for vegetables and garnishes
    • "A la minute" cooking techniques
    • Expressing personal cultural ingredients and flavors
    • Advanced plating and presentation techniques
    • Seasonal and market influences on cuisine
  2. Meet health safety and hygiene requirements
  3. Create new recipes using ingredients
  4. Develop their creative skills
  5. Establish personal kitchen organization and management skills
Basic Cuisine
Certificate		 Intermediate Cuisine
Certificate		 Superior Cuisine
Certificate		 Diplôme de Cuisine
Certificate
Period of Study:
11 Weeks – 180 Hours		 Period of Study:
11 Weeks – 180 Hours		 Period of Study:
11 Weeks – 180 Hours		 Period of Study:
33 Weeks
Tuition for International Students: 9.874$ Tuition for International Students: 8.718$ Tuition for International Students: 9.604$ Tuition for International Students: 25.653$
  • As of 15th of November 2019, 2020 tuition fees will be posted and applied. 
LONG TERM PROGRAMMES STARTING DATE END DATE
Fall Term October 7, 2019 December 20, 2019
Winter Term February 17, 2020 April 30, 2020
Spring Term May 11, 2020 July 24, 2020
Summer Term* August 10, 2020 September 23, 2020

*Summer Term; Intensive Course; Basic levels only