This course is suitable for students aged 19 and over.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to popular demand, this course has limited availability!


Thai cuisine places a real emphasis on lightly prepared dishes with strong aromatic components and is known for its balance of taste senses: sour, sweet, salty and bitter.

This fascinating course will help you develop your culinary skills and allow you to experiment with exceptional ingredients, to be able to prepare authentic, delicious Thai dishes.

Start Date and Duration

This course is due to start on Tuesday 11th March 2025. You will attend college on Tuesday evening from 6.00pm – 9.00pm, for four weeks.

This course will take place at our Main Campus, Huyton, Liverpool, L36 3SD.

Course Content

The course will provide you with new culinary techniques and present you with a range of recipes for Thai Main courses, Starters and Desserts.

Some of these dishes may include:

  • Chicken satay, peanut sauce, jasmine rice
  • Tom yum chicken soup
  • Thai red duck curry
  • Cardamom, coconut & mango créme brulee

Course participants will be able to develop their awareness of Health and Safety relating to the preparation of food, food safety awareness, practical knife skills and stove control, whilst learning logical and coherent methods for producing Mexican dishes. You will study alongside like-minded people in classes delivered by friendly expert tutors and chefs.

Assessment Methods

There is no formal assessment. The course is aimed to increase your own knowledge of the subject matter.

As with all of our leisure cookery courses, the main emphasis is to come along and enjoy.

Entry Requirements

There are no formal entry requirements. The course is suitable for all levels of ability.

You will need to wear strong, flat sensible shoes and bring along an apron, tea towel, and an oven glove.

Please bring along a container to take what you have made home with you.

Course Cost

You may be eligible for funding if you have not recently participated in a similar programme, or received any other recent government funded training.

There are a number of fee options for this course including:

  • If you are unemployed – FREE
  • If you are employed – £30
  • If you are not eligible for funding – £120

The course price is inclusive of all the ingredients that you will need for each session.

Future Progression Opportunities

You may wish to progress onto an accredited qualification in this subject, which will allow you to practice your skills in the industry.

Are you ready to apply?

Simply fill in our online form here.

However, if you still have questions in relation to this course and wish to receive further information, please submit your enquiry here.


Please note, we have taken our utmost care to describe and show course information as accurately as possible. Knowsley Community College reserves the right to amend, remove and add courses in the future. This information cannot be considered contractual and advertised course fees are subject to change.

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