Sri Lankan Cookery Class with Jaufferkhan | BRISTOL

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 Jaufferkhan from Sri Lanka at The Mazi Project, Bristol.

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

Menu, subject to change:

• Nei Soru (Coconut Rice) | Vegan
• Kozhi Curry ( Chicken curry) | Meat (chicken); Sulphites
• Kaliya (Aubergine curry ) | Vegan; Sulphites, Mustard
• Pol Sambol (Coconut chutney)| Vegan
• Meen Bajji (Fish Patties) | Fish (Tuna); Eggs, Fish, Gluten (Wheat), Milk, Mustard
• Marakari Bajji (Vegetable Patties)| Vegan; Gluten (Wheat), Mustard

This menu is mostly vegetarian but contains one dish that contains meat (chicken) and a pattie with fish and vegetarian filling options. Allergens include: sulphites, mustard, eggs, fish, gluten.

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 Allergens Policy for more information.

A message from our Chef Jaufferkhan:

“Jaufferkhan means open-minded. I’m from Sri Lanka, an island known as the Pearl of Asia. I love my country, it is like paradise.

I fondly remember picking fresh mango and guava. My passion for cooking began at age 10, helping my mum clean okra and learning to haggle in the fish markets with my dad. My father was a teacher and provided for our family and his four sisters. My mother was the oldest daughter in her family, so everyone would eat at our home. She was very generous and always cooked extra for those in need.

Sadly, because of the civil war in Sri Lanka, my family had to move to Bahrain, There I worked in the welfare department of an Islamic NGO, but I was also able to use my cooking skills and I cooked for events for the Youth Group. My wife is also a very good cook and our dream is to open a restaurant. I’m very proud of my parents, they taught me to be generous, so I am excited to share my recipes, perfected over 40 years.”

Finding the venue: The Mazi Project is located in a building previously called 'Deltec International' in St Catherine's Trading Estate, enter via Whitehouse Lane. What3words location is ////keys.cowboy.news. There are currently roadworks in this area which can make it more difficult to find so please call the facilitator for your class if you need assistance.

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.