Eritrean Cookery Class with Wedad | Veg Friendly | LONDON | Cookery School

Nothing beats a home-cooked meal shared with family! And this is what inspires our Family Style Cookery Classes, a fun, laid-back homestyle cooking experience. Here, you will learn to prepare different dishes and then enjoy them with people who, like you, fuel our mission of supporting refugee and migrant chefs on their journey to integration. It’s a cookery class with a conscience, like they say!

Your class will be led by our wonderful Chef Wedad from Eritrea at the Migrateful Cookery School in Clerkenwell, London.

At our Family Style Cookery Classes, you will be grouped with other participants and prepare dishes together as a team. Think of Chef Wedad as the head of the family! She will take care of dividing the class into groups, and each group will be responsible for creating one of the dishes. Of course, you are welcome and encouraged to move around during the class to learn about the other dishes being prepared. Throughout the evening, Chef Wedad will share stories about their food and culture, and explain how to prepare each of the dishes so you come away with some new cooking tricks and inspiration from Pakistan. You will also be emailed the recipes after the class.

Menu, subject to change:

• Salata Bazinjan (Aubergine Salad) | Vegan; Peanuts, Sesame
• Zegny (Spicy Chicken Stew) | Meat (Chicken); Eggs, Milk

• Shiro | Vegan; None
• Sambusa | Meat (Lamb) and Vegetarian; Wheat, Milk
• Ful Beans | Vegetarian; Milk, Peanuts, Sesame
• Salata Hamra (Red Salad) | Vegan; None

This menu contains meat (chicken) but is vegetarian friendly (5/6 dishes are meat-free). Allergens include: peanuts, sesame, eggs, milk, gluten (wheat).

Please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements so our team is aware ahead of the class, but kindly note that we will not be substituting any ingredients to accommodate dietary needs, so please only book into classes that suit your dietary requirements. Please see our Food and Allergen Policy when booking into the class for more information.

A message from our Chef Wedad:

“Hi, my name is Wedad and I come from a town called Keran in south-west Eritrea. Eritrea is a beautiful country in East Africa and is surrounded by mountains and the Red Sea. I grew up with my grandmother, who loved to cook and taught me all her recipes. My friends and I liked to cook our dishes for each other and so I also learnt how to cook other cuisines. My favourite dish is Salata Banzinjan, an aubergine salad, which I make in lots of different ways. Eritrean food is typically spicy and is served on one plate to be shared with the whole family. One of the things that we eat often is a fermented bread called injera, which we have at lunchtime. Today, we will be serving injera with Shiro and Salata Banzinjan. I came to the UK in 2012 and the biggest barrier I faced was the language. Now I study English at the Red Cross and one day we were writing about our favourite food. A few weeks later, I brought in the dish that I wrote about – kebab – and my teacher and colleagues liked it so much, she suggested I apply to join Migrateful! I am now a part of the Migrateful community and I hope you enjoy my Eritrean dishes in this class”.

We’re excited to have you in the class! Please take note of a few final reminders:

• We will send you a reminder email 3 days before the class takes place.
• We require a certain number of participants to run this class and reserve the right to cancel it due to insufficient enrolment. If this occurs, we will, at your convenience, transfer you to another class of your choice of the same value. If this option does not suit you, you will have the choice to receive either a gift voucher for the class or a full refund. In the case of insufficient enrolment, we will inform you at least 6 days before the class.
• Payments made through Paypal can take up to 48 hours to have the order confirmed. To guarantee your spot in a cookery class we recommend using a debit or credit card.
• We only process refunds and ticket transfers if we are notified 7 days before the class takes place. No changes are allowed if the class is missed. When you register for this event, you are agreeing to our Terms and Conditions. If you are not able to attend the class, you can pass on your tickets so someone else can attend on your behalf.
• Ingredients used in our classes contain, may contain, or may have been manufactured/prepared on shared equipment with the 14 allergens listed above. We cannot guarantee that any food or drink prepared or consumed in any of the Migrateful Cookery Classes are free from any of the 14 allergens, or any other ingredient. Migrateful’s Cookery Classes are hosted in our busy cookery school or in external venues that handle allergens. Even in classes where allergens are not used, the ingredients for the class may have been stored in close proximity to allergens and other ingredients, and/or equipment and surfaces may have previously come into contact with allergens and other ingredients. Participants attend classes at their own risk.