Chef Sanobar will teach delicious, authentic Tajik dishes followed by a sit-down meal. Warm & easy, like being with family!

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 Sanobar from Uzbekistan at Appleby Blue Almshouse, London.

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

Menu, subject to change:

Salati Bahor (Spring Salad) | Vegan
Qalama (Pan-fried layered flat-bread) | Vegetarian; Eggs, Gluten (Wheat), Milk.
Palav (Samarkand Rice with Vegetables) | Vegan.
Mantu (Steamed Herb Dumplings) | Vegetarian; Eggs, Milk, Gluten (Wheat).
Chakka (Greek Yogurt and Herb Dip) | Vegetarian; Milk.
Salati Badinjan (Aubergine Salad) | Vegetarian; Gluten (Barley).

This menu is vegetarian. Allergens include: gluten, eggs, milk.

Please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements so our team is aware ahead of the class

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 Sanobar:

“My name is Sanobar and I am from the ancient city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It is in the middle of the Silk Roads, which means it has been a crossroads for trade and remains a melting pot of different cultures. The food culture is very colourful, taking ingredients and flavours from many cuisines. My family is Tajik and so the food I have grown up with and will teach in my classes is based around this culture

I learned to cook from a very young age from my mother and grandmother. The village where I grew up had cows, sheep, fruits and vegetables and all of my favourite recipes are based on fresh ingredients. I have nine siblings. My mother was our hero feeding her large family every day.

Cooking for my family also brings me great joy and I would love to share my recipes with you. Palav is a traditional rice dish that in 2016 was designated ‘King of Meals’ by UNESCO – after more than 1000 years since its creation it has been recognised as part of central Asia’s cultural heritage.”

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.

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