Raw Food & Wellness Experience Classes w/ Boris Lauser
Are you looking to take your health and well-being to new heights? Do you love delicious food that is as good for you as it tastes? Would you love support and guidance to make better meals for yourself at home that help you to thrive on every level? Boris Lauser is our head creative chef at the Vikasa Life Cafe in Koh Samui. An award-winning plant-based and raw food chef, Boris has helped hundreds of people transform their eating routines and lifestyle through his vibrant recipes and expert wisdom.
Join Boris for one of his ‘food experience classes’ – more than just a cooking class, you will walk away with recipes and invaluable knowledge to fuel your body for optimal health. Best of all, everything you learn to make you get to enjoy! Classes are suitable for everyone and are taught in the beautiful Life Cafe.
Join one session or join the full series – these classes will transform your life in the best of ways.
Experience Class 1: Plant Based Nutrition and Meal Planning
In this class, you learn the basic foundation of a mostly plant based nutrition scheme. Boris will walk you through the essential building blocks of nutrition and introduce you to the foundational pillars of the Vikasa Approach to healthy eating. What are nutritional values? Where to find them? Which food groups do we need to combine to get maximum nutritional benefits? What about calories and weight loss or weight gain? These and many more questions will be answered in this session. This class will give you a profound understanding of whole foods and how to work with them on a daily basis to create a diet that will feed you sustainably and lead you to more vitality.
Key Teachings and Recipes:
- Signature Vikasa protein smoothie
- Healthy Bowl Concepts
- Delicious tempeh tacos with salsa.
Experience Class 2: High Nutrition Cooking: Basic Techniques
Learn the basics of delicious, high nutrition food preparation techniques. These smart nutrition preserving techniques should be part of everyone’s cooking repertoire at home! You will learn basic techniques of modern raw food preparation and ideas on how to combine them with traditional cooking methods in order to create more nutritious and healthier versions of things you are already familiar with.
Key Teachings and Recipes:
- How to make creamy rich plant based milks
- Omega 3 creamy maca tonka chia pudding
- Pumpkin Seed Bolognese on zucchini noodles
- Almond Parmesan Topping
- Our Signature Vikasa Dim Sum Dumplings with Chinese Style Plum Sweet & Sour
- Creamy Blender Soups: Cream of Carrot
- Salad Dressings
Experience Class 3: High Nutrition Cooking: Fermentation and Dehydration
In this continuation of the basics of high nutrition cooking techniques, you will dive deeper into the art of modern nutrition preserving cooking and get introduced also to the concepts of fermentation and dehydration.
Key Teachings and Recipes:
- Sprouting techniques
- Crunchy dehydrated buckwheat granola, naturally sweetened
- Fermentation: Probiotic Coconut Yoghurt & Cashew Cream Cheese and Fermented Vegetables
- Sprouted Buckwheat Dehydrator Bread
- Wraps: How to create healthy dehydrated wrap doughs
- Bell Pepper Hummus
Experience Class 4: Raw Sweets and Desserts : Cheesecakes and Energy/Protein Bars
When it comes to sweets and desserts, the only healthy and nutritious way is to keep the oven off and the white flour and white sugar out! Learn how to use modern techniques to turn nutritious food ingredients into mouthwatering sweets and desserts that will impress anyone. Once you will experience how good they are and know that they are actually much healthier for you, you will never go back.
Key Teachings and Recipes:
- How to make amazing whole food cake and pie crusts
- A delicious raw cheesecake recipe (orange chocolate or another seasonal flavor)
- Crunchy chocolate energy balls
- Healthy delicious Protein Bar
Experience Class 5: Raw Sweets and Desserts : Mousse, Ice Creams and Chocolate
Whole food and nutritious sweets often come with the assumption that they are not sweet at all or have poor textures or are too dense. This class is all about fluffy, light and smooth textures and consistencies. How to make the perfect plant based healthy mousse without eggs, tofu or other common ingredients but from homemade plant based milks and all natural ingredients. Boris has lived in Italy for 6 years and has become a connoisseur of artisan gelato. In this class you will learn how to make the most creamy and rich ice creams from plant based milks only. You will also learn about cacao and its amazing health qualities and how to make proper chocolate from cacao bean to bar.
Key Teachings and Recipes:
- Fluffy mousse au chocolat
- Creamy Ice Cream (changing flavors)
- Artisanal Chocolate Making and Tempering
- Almond Panna Cotta
Each experience is 5,500 THB per person.
Classes are 12.30pm – 3.30 pm.
Max 6 people per class.
All recipes are vegan and gluten free.
Please complete the booking enquiry form below to reserve your place.
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