Eygptian Cookery Class with Amro |Veg Friendly| LONDON | Pop Up

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 Amro from Egypt at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in Bishopsgate, London.

At our Family Style Cookery Classes, you will be grouped with other participants and prepare dishes together as a team. Think of Chef Amro as the head of the family! He 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 Amro 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 Egypt. You will also be emailed the recipes after the class.

Menu, subject to change:

• Egyptian Koshary (Rice with Vermicelli, Lentils, Chickpeas and Spicy Tomato Sauce) | Vegan; Gluten (Wheat & Barley), Sulphites
• Egyptian Hawaashi (Flatbread filled with Spiced Lamb or Mushrooms) | Meat (Lamb) or Vegetarian; Gluten (Wheat), Milk , Sulphites
• Aubergine Fatteh (Fried Aubergine with Tahini Yoghurt, Fried Bread and Pomegranate) | Vegetarian; Gluten (Wheat), Milk, Tree Nuts (Pine Nuts), Peanuts, Sesame
• Salata Khadra (Egyptian Salad) | Vegetarian; Milk, Sulphites
• Qataif (Pancakes filled with Sweet Ricotta and Pistachios) | Vegetarian; Gluten (Wheat), Soya, Milk, Tree Nuts (Pistachio & Walnuts), Sesame

This menu is mostly vegetarian but contains one dish that contains meat (lamb) with vegetarian filling options. Allergens include: gluten, sulphites, milk, tree nuts, peanuts, sesame, soya.

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 Amro:

“Hello, my name is Amro and I am from Egypt - from the North. My city, Damitta, is famous for furniture, sweets and cheese. I am from a large family and I am the only boy with three sisters.

After I graduated from university as a computer engineer, I went to work in Kuwait. I worked there for 17 years in the Ministry of Education and the University of Kuwait before I moved to the UK in 2023 with my wife and my two children (I now have three)!

When I was at home in Egypt, it was always my mother who did the cooking. Although I didn’t cook then, I learnt a lot from watching her. But when I was living alone in Kuwait, especially for the first 3 years before I married, I had to learn how to cook for myself!

As I spent half of my life in Egypt and the other half in Kuwait, I have influences from both countries in my cooking. For example, from my home country, a famous dish that everyone there loves is Koshary - a delicious vegetarian dish. And from Kuwai, I enjoy cooking Majboos, a lamb dish with raisins and nuts, which is often served for big celebrations.

I look forward to cooking these dishes with you”.

A message from St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace

"St Ethelburga’s work sits at the intersection of climate and peace. We believe there can be no peace on Earth unless we also realise peace with Earth.We offer events, training, leadership programmes and multimedia content which equip and inspire people to become peacemakers in their own contexts.The Centre is based in a unique 800 year old, Grade I listed building in the heart of London. Find out more: www.stethelburgas.org."

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.